Student team 'IIT Bombay Racing' of the IIT Bombay
institute has unveiled its sixth generation electric race car. - 'EVoX'. The
new electric race car has been developed by the Formula Student team and will
be competing in the upcoming Student Competition to be held during the British
Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit in the UK. The competition is run by the
Institution of Mechanical engineers (IMechE) - and is the world's largest
student motorsport event that attracts up to 95 teams representing open universities
from all across the world every year. The competition challenges students to
design, build and race a single seat racing car in one year.
IIT Bombay Racing's EVoX takes a giant leap in
showcasing the capabilities of over 60 students from different streams of
engineering. The electric single-seater has been designed to run from 0-100
km/h in just 2.88 seconds, which makes it faster than the current Gen1 Formula
E race car, and on par with the upcoming Gen2 Formula E electric racer.
Power on the single-seater EVoX comes from a pair of
40 KQ electric motors, while the car has been designed in-house by the team to
include a self-developed battery management system, titanium uprights and
aerodynamic wings.
The students of IIT Bombay Racing aspire to develop
electric sports car technology in India, similar to that of Tesla. The aim is
to meet the government's ambition of making India am electric vehicle nation by
2030 through revolutionising electric mobility.
