Young engineers from the National Institute of Technology- Karnataka (NITK) have developed e-bike for forest surveillance. Prof. Pruthviraj, Head of e-mobility projects at the institute, guided the students on this project. After initial prototyping and field testing, this electric bike, VidhYug 4.0, is now ready for forest surveillance.
“We learnt a lot in the designing and development of this e-bike which otherwise wouldn’t have happened in a classroom from material procurement, designing, analysis of the frame to how the product should present itself, etc. During our engineering course, we study technology like 3D Printing and CAD tools, but in this project we actually implemented it,” says Steevan (a junior research fellow at NITK who worked on this project)
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