My story of building AURA:
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My dad is an Electrical Engineer and one day he shared his college dream of making an electric car back in the 1990s in his college (Delhi College of Engineering). Since that day (someday in 2015 when I was in 10th standard), I started reading about electric cars and its future and technology. Amazingly this catched my interest so well that I wanted to make a fully functional car by myself in my high school. But, that was not an easy thing to do in a town and education system like mine with little resources. The interest and curiosity inside me was not letting me sleep in the night and that was when I discussed this idea with a couple of my juniors and they all agreed to work with me on this project. We set up a lab on the rooftop of our school and started researching about the theory, science, technology, calculations and design of an electric car.
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1 month after severe research and hardworking nights, we proposed our plan and asked for a budget from our school Principal. Our school principal was shocked with the knowledge that I gathered and the plan that I had ready to make a working solar Car in 15 days. Surprisingly we got his confidence and got the little funding required of INR 1 Lakh. We bought raw material like iron pipes, tools and electrical components. From the skills of using tools that I had gathered over time since when I first got into electricals and electronics ( when I was 5) helped me in handling the tools and in teaching my fellows how to use them. We faced a lot of difficulties like arranging parts, making use of what we had instead of the required specific part, over other difficulties like managing our coursework simultaneously and getting motivated from the criticism of people.
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After much hard work we were able to create and present our 1st model of self made Solar Car in the school's annual function in front of Dr. P.B sharma ( who has been an ex member of the designing committee of Rolls Roye). The car was well praised by Sharma Sir and we were called again in his University to participate in an international competition where we eventually Won 1st prize among 15 countries and a grant to make our second model.
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The car got quick attention from the media and we became inspiration for our juniors to think out of the box and pursue what they want to. We started teaching our juniors in school and spreading awareness for the uses of solar energy and Electric Cars.
Research
Research was done by interveiwing experts, by visiting E-Rickshaw, automobiles manufacturers and surfing the Internet.
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Innovation
5 Seater Capacity
Capable of traveling a distance of 160 Km
Top Speed– 35 Km/Hr.
Able to function in Rain
Able to Run in the night for at least 160 Km
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