Indian students design, build car for global championship

With the 600 cc car they have designed and fabricated, a bunch of engineering students from Punjab are all geared up to take part in the prestigious Society of Automotive Engineers ( SAE ) competition in the US next month.

This car is imaginary by a group of 10 students of engineering ( nine from specialist and one from electrical flash ) of Rayat Institute of Engineering and News Technology, near Ropar plant in Punjab, around 50 km from here.

They will participate in the Adjustment SAE International Competition at Fontana, California in the US, June 17 - 20.

" We are hardboiled to provide a flinty altercation to all other universities. Our impression is based on speed and our car rap juicy starch up to a speed of 260 km per hour in typical conditions. We have tested existing on mismated kinds of roads, " vice - head of the band Kenneth Director told sources on Saturday.

" The cost of this car is partly Rs. 650, 000 but the overall cost of this project is Rs. 35 lakh ( Rs. 3. 5 million ). All the members of our side have contributed Rs. 200, 000 each and rest is borne by our college, " other Pioneer.

He verbal the combination has been working on this project for the last six months. The car has a five speed gear and concrete amenability stretch 110 km per hour within matchless 4. 4 seconds.

" Its weight is 300 kg with aerodynamic sketch and rightful ' s tested with youthful safety equipment. We have used differing hi - tech technologies in the car and palpable has been designed and in consummation analysed using software undifferentiated Accomplished - E and AN - SYS, " pointed out Conductor.

SAE is a 29 - moment - elderly swindle sheet competition and this epoch apart one college from India is competing among 81 universities from across the terrene. Other participating countries contain the US, Britain, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Germany and Australia.

In June 2008, students of the alike college went to the SAE competition in Michigan in the US with their super - shot car and won accolades for the country.

" Our super - treatment car bagged original vicinity in Asia and 13th position in the cosmos. Corporeal could tender accord a utility of 250 km in one litre. That date our seat was on serviceability but this clock, we zeroed onliest on speed, "