IIT KGP students develop new electric vehicle
The Economic Times (September 17, 2019)
The team is led by Prof. Vikranth Racherla from Department of Mechanical Engineering of the institute.
KOLKATA: In a bid to reduce vehicular pollution, a team of 50 students from IIT Kharagpur has developed an electric vehicle.
The new green vehicle 'DESHLA', designed and built by the team, is set to pose a strong challenge to the current generation of three-wheeler autos and high-maintenance e-rickshaws, said a statement of IIT Kharagpur.
The team is led by Prof. Vikranth Racherla from Department of Mechanical Engineering of the institute.
"Instead of retrofitting an existing vehicle, we thought we would build one up from scratch, especially because the design is so important for an electric vehicle. Each design has been conceived, analysed, prototyped and the cycle repeated many times before the actual product came out," he said. (Read More)