This is indeed a great innovation and gives wings to the Make in India dream. A teenage engineering student?in Pune has developed a solar-powered two-wheeler car. The 19-year-old Roshan Chumbalkar, who is a first-year student at RND Sinhagad College, developed the idea?the idea during the vacations after his class X board exams.
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¡°With electric cars coming up in a big way, I wondered where would the power and time come from for charging these batteries. That is when I decided to try something out on a regular bicycle," Chumbalkar told The Indian Express.
This cycle which he uses to commute to nearby places every day, has special gadgets like an accelerator, a two-seater leather seat used in motorbikes, a solar panel jutting out from the cycle carrier and a soon-to-be-added protective overhead cover ¡ª completing the design of a two-wheeler car. This cycle is best suited while riding an uphill slope.
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¡°The batteries can be fully solar powered within four hours will work for 30 km. With the solar panels on the cycle, the charging is continuous,¡± explained the budding mechanical engineer. Once the car-design is ready, Chumbalkar also plans to manufacture and sell his solar-powered cycle-car and he is positive his discovery can contribute to making the environment greener.