IIT Bombay students create India’s first electric race car, Evo-1

On Thursday, IIT Bombay Racing Team launched Evo-1, Country’s first electric race car. 60 IIT Bombay students from different disciplines created Evo1, it costs Rs15 lakh. One of the team members Prateek Sharma said – the race car costs Rs15 lakh — Rs3 lakh more than what a car with traditional motor engines and which offers similar efficiency would cost.

Evo1 is powered by high-efficiency direct current motors and superior lithium polymer batteries. It has no tailpipe emissions, thus leaving a negligible carbon footprint. It also has a comprehensive data acquisition system, which collects and transmits data of important parameters of the car such as the amount of charge left in the battery and its temperature, motor current, number of revolutions per minute of the wheel and vehicle acceleration. Such a system is widely used during the testing stage to predict the ‘health’ of a car.

Evo-1 was lunched by Prof Rangan Bannerjee, dean of research and development at the institute. He said “We are ready for initiatives which give students exposure to practical groundwork. People who are working on such projects can become innovators tomorrow, which will help us make a difference in society.”