Garuda, the car that runs 180 km per litre!!!!!
A car that offers a mileage of 180 kilometers to a litre of petrol? Yes!
It's neither a pipedream nor a gadget out of a science fiction flick. Garuda, is a car that has been developed by a group of mechanical engineering students from the Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
The super fuel-efficient, aerodynamic car, say the brains behind the project, will address raging issues like oil crisis, rising fuel costs, environmental pollution, and the desperate need for green technologies.
The car is the result of 'Project Garuda-RVCE Supermileage Car,' which was conceptualised by Nishant Sarawagi, the team leader, and seven of his mates: Bharat, Kayaan, Darshan, Jacob, Gautham, Krishna, and Rakshit.
So what are the distinctive features of this fantastic car?
The team worked under the guidance of Dr B Anand, head of the department, mechanical engineering; and Prof R S Kulkarni, department of mechanical engineering, both from the RVCE. The car was unveiled on August 2 by ace car designer Dilip Chhabria.
The fuel efficiency of the Garuda was tested on the NICE corridor and under test conditions it showed a mileage of 180 km per litre. The Garuda prototype is powered by a 97-cc Honda GK 100 engine with a 2 horse-power air-cooled engine.
It features a TAV 2 Torq A-Verter and asymmetric CVT transmission systems and a tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis, 16-inch Moulton recumbent wheels, a twin tie-rod steering system, an intermediate freewheel, a variable jet carburetor, and simple caliper cycle breaks.
The Honda GK 2-HP lawnmower engine was chosen ahead of the Briggs and Statton engine as it was locally available and spares were easier to find, the team said.
The chassis, a tubular A1 6063 T6, which is an aluminum alloy, was selected as it is very lightweight and has a high yield stress. Moreover it was easily available in Bangalore.
Shell glass fibre was used as shell material, with transparent sections made of polycarbonate sheets to provide the best design.
The team also used the intermediate freewheel mechanism using sprocket assemblies from cycles to provide for effective reduction and to prevent compression braking.
A variable jet carburettor salvaged from a TVS motorbike was used to provide better burning efficiency. Simple caliper cycle brakes were also used as they were light weight and provided sufficient braking torque.
A thick aluminum firewall with a wooden lining and a strong section of aluminum tubing was used as a roll cage providing adequate driver safety.
Bharat, one of the team members, expresses the confidence that the team would be able to better its own record in the coming years. He says that with an improved design, they will be able to deliver a car that would be able to achieve a fuel efficiency of a mind-boggling 500 km per litre!
Team leader Nishant says that India has not had any representation at international competitions like SAE Supermileage in the United States, and Shell Eco Marathon in Britain. It was with this in mind that the team decided to come up with this car.
Nishant says that the road to completing this path-breaking project was not really smooth. "It took us around four months to complete the project and we ended up spending nearly Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 350,000). We got in touch with many mechanics to help us out, but none of them really believed in our project."
Adds Bharat: "The mechanics basically advised us to borrow concepts from other vehicles. . . but we had decided that everything in the car would be novel, our own creation."
While the car was being developed, word of what the team was trying to achieve got around and several companies contacted them, says Nishant. Although the idea was tempting, "we refused these offers as we did not want anybody's banner. Yes, now that the car is complete and there is a lot of curiosity being whipped up about it. We are open to working with manufacturers who might want to use our concept," Nishant adds.
There is also a lot of 'green' value attached to the car, the developers say. "The logic here is simple: lesser the fuel consumption, lesser the emission. We had kept this thought in mind as we live in a world which is becoming increasingly aware of environmental issues," says Nishant.
For these boys, the road does not end here. They have big plans for the future. Nishant and Bharat say that they intend to build on the existing platform and optimize the design apart from achieving a mileage of over 500 kmpl.
They also want to be the first Indian team to compete in the SAE Supermileage and UK Shell Marathon competitions.
The students said that Tantra Infosolutions, CD Adapco, Chameleon Motors, Bimal Auto Agency, Innoversant Solutions also helped them in various ways during the development of the car.
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The super fuel-efficient, aerodynamic car, say the brains behind the project, will address raging issues like oil crisis, rising fuel costs, environmental pollution, and the desperate need for green technologies.
The car is the result of 'Project Garuda-RVCE Supermileage Car,' which was conceptualised by Nishant Sarawagi, the team leader, and seven of his mates: Bharat, Kayaan, Darshan, Jacob, Gautham, Krishna, and Rakshit.
So what are the distinctive features of this fantastic car?
The team worked under the guidance of Dr B Anand, head of the department, mechanical engineering; and Prof R S Kulkarni, department of mechanical engineering, both from the RVCE. The car was unveiled on August 2 by ace car designer Dilip Chhabria.
The fuel efficiency of the Garuda was tested on the NICE corridor and under test conditions it showed a mileage of 180 km per litre. The Garuda prototype is powered by a 97-cc Honda GK 100 engine with a 2 horse-power air-cooled engine.
It features a TAV 2 Torq A-Verter and asymmetric CVT transmission systems and a tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis, 16-inch Moulton recumbent wheels, a twin tie-rod steering system, an intermediate freewheel, a variable jet carburetor, and simple caliper cycle breaks.
The Honda GK 2-HP lawnmower engine was chosen ahead of the Briggs and Statton engine as it was locally available and spares were easier to find, the team said.
The chassis, a tubular A1 6063 T6, which is an aluminum alloy, was selected as it is very lightweight and has a high yield stress. Moreover it was easily available in Bangalore.
Shell glass fibre was used as shell material, with transparent sections made of polycarbonate sheets to provide the best design.
The team also used the intermediate freewheel mechanism using sprocket assemblies from cycles to provide for effective reduction and to prevent compression braking.
A variable jet carburettor salvaged from a TVS motorbike was used to provide better burning efficiency. Simple caliper cycle brakes were also used as they were light weight and provided sufficient braking torque.
A thick aluminum firewall with a wooden lining and a strong section of aluminum tubing was used as a roll cage providing adequate driver safety.
Bharat, one of the team members, expresses the confidence that the team would be able to better its own record in the coming years. He says that with an improved design, they will be able to deliver a car that would be able to achieve a fuel efficiency of a mind-boggling 500 km per litre!
Team leader Nishant says that India has not had any representation at international competitions like SAE Supermileage in the United States, and Shell Eco Marathon in Britain. It was with this in mind that the team decided to come up with this car.
Nishant says that the road to completing this path-breaking project was not really smooth. "It took us around four months to complete the project and we ended up spending nearly Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 350,000). We got in touch with many mechanics to help us out, but none of them really believed in our project."
Adds Bharat: "The mechanics basically advised us to borrow concepts from other vehicles. . . but we had decided that everything in the car would be novel, our own creation."
While the car was being developed, word of what the team was trying to achieve got around and several companies contacted them, says Nishant. Although the idea was tempting, "we refused these offers as we did not want anybody's banner. Yes, now that the car is complete and there is a lot of curiosity being whipped up about it. We are open to working with manufacturers who might want to use our concept," Nishant adds.
There is also a lot of 'green' value attached to the car, the developers say. "The logic here is simple: lesser the fuel consumption, lesser the emission. We had kept this thought in mind as we live in a world which is becoming increasingly aware of environmental issues," says Nishant.
For these boys, the road does not end here. They have big plans for the future. Nishant and Bharat say that they intend to build on the existing platform and optimize the design apart from achieving a mileage of over 500 kmpl.
They also want to be the first Indian team to compete in the SAE Supermileage and UK Shell Marathon competitions.
The students said that Tantra Infosolutions, CD Adapco, Chameleon Motors, Bimal Auto Agency, Innoversant Solutions also helped them in various ways during the development of the car.
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Infotech Enterprises Limited
Plot No.110/A & 110/B, (Behind Cyber Park),
Sy.No.68, Keonics Electronic City, Phase-I, Hosur Road,
Bangalore - 560 100, India
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ENGINEER'S DAY (Sir.M.V 150th Birthday)
SEPTEMBER 15th IS CELEBRATED AS ENGINEER'S DAY (Celebrated on Sir.M.Vishveswaraih's Birth day i.e.15th Sept).
Engineers Day to commemorate the 150th Birthday of Bharat Ratna Sir M Vishveshwaraiah, IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF EVERY CITIZEN TO LAUREL A GREAT PERSONALITY & ENGINEER-STATEMAN ON THIS DAY.
Sir M Vishveshwaraiah
Mokshagundam Vishveshwaraiah September 15 1860-April 12 1962 popularly known as Sir MV, was an eminent Indian engineer. He was born to Srinivasa Sastry and Venkachamma in Muddenahalli village, 40 miles from Bangalore. Sir MV went to primary school in Chikballapur and high school in Bangalore. He earned his B.A. at Madras University in 1881 and later civil engineering from College of Science, Pune. His father was a Sanskrit scholar and an authority on Hindu Dharma Sastras(science), besides being an Ayurvedic practitioner.
After joining Public Works Department (PWD) of Bombay he received an invitation to join the Indian Irrigation Commission He then introduced an extremely intricate system of irrigation in the Deccan area. He also designed and patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates. These were installed at the Khadakvasla reservoir at Poona for the first time, in 1903. The use of these gates was to raise the flood supply level of storage in the reservoir to the highest level likely to be attained by its flood, without causing any damage to the dam. Based on the success of these gates, the same was adopted in the Tigra dam in Gwalior and the Krishnarajasagar (KRS) dam in Mysore. The KRS dam across the Cauvery was the biggest reservoir in India at that time. Sir MV was a celebrity when he designed flood protection system to save Hyderabad city from floods.
After taking a voluntary retirement in 1908, he took over as the Dewan of Mysore princely state, thus contribution to the all-round development of the state, with the support of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar He was instrumental in setting up the 'Govt Engg College' in 1917 in the city of Bangalore, which was later named after him. UVCE (University Vishveshwaraiah College Of Engineering), to this day, remains one of the most reputed institutes of higher learning in the state of Karnataka He also endeavored to promote the Mysore University. He was knighted while he was the Dewan.
He was given the nation's highest honour Bharat Ratna in 1955.
The technical university, Vishweshwaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, to which all the state engineering colleges of the Karnataka state are affiliated, has been named after him.
As part of his birth centenary celebrations, the Vishveshwaraiah Industrial and Technological Museum was set up in Bangalore.
Come up & join hands to make sure that our next generation live in a developed INDIA
who wish to know more about Sir . M . V , can read below contents:
Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of
Sir M.Vishveshwaraiah .......
Presenting a brief profile of the great soul .......
Sir M. Visvesvaraya
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, popularly and afectionately known as Sir M.V., was born on September 15 1860 in a village known as Muddenahalli in Chikballapur Taluk, Kolar District. His father died in Kurnool when Visvesvaraya was just 15 years old. Visvevaraya completed his lower secondary schooling in Chikballapur. After schooling he joined Central College in Bangalore for his graduation.
He lead a very simple life. He was a strict vegetarian and a teetotaller. He would go to sleep by 10 P.M. and wake up at 6 A.M. His diet included a very light breakfast, two slices of bread or chappatis,vegetables without spcices, rasam, curds, Nanjangud bannanas for lunch. He was known for his honesty and integrity. Before accepting the position of Dewan of Mysore, he invited all his relatives for dinner. He told them very clearly that he would accept the prestigous office on the condition that none of them would approach him for favours. Such things are unheard of these days.
Some of the job positions he held were
1. Assistant Engineer, Bombay Government Service [in 1884]
2. Chief Engineer, Hyderabad State [he served only for 7 months starting April 15, 1909]
3. Chief Engineer in Mysore State [Nov 15, 1909]. He was also Secretary to the Railways.
4. President of Education and Industrial Development committees in Mysore State
5. Dewan of Mysore. [for six years starting 1912]
6. Chairman, Bhadravati Iron Works
7. Member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
8. Member of the Governing Council of Tata Iron and Steel Company [TISCO]
9. Member of Back Bay enquiry committee, London
10. Member of a committee constituted in 1917 to make recommendations regarding the future of Indian States.
Sir M.V. retired in 1908 and Sri Krishnarajendra Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore, was eager to secure the services of Visvesvaraya to serve Mysore. He joined as Chief Engineer in Mysore because he wanted challenging opportunities. Sir M.V. had earned a reputation for his honesty, integrity, ability and intelligence. He had introduced compulsory education in the State which later was embodied as a fundamental right in the Constitution of independent India.
To name few of the many things he was responsible for:
1. Architect of the Krishnarajasagara dam - or KRS or Brindavan gardens (PS: Unfortunately the govt officials of today are busy swallowing money and defaming the beautiful gardens) One of the biggest dams in India which irrigates a hundred and twenty thousand acres of land.
2. Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works - as its Chairman he rescued it from becoming extinct.
3. Mysore Sandal Oil Factory and the Mysore soap factory
4. Mysore University - Sir M.V.'s question was "If Australia and Canada could have universitites of their own for less than a million population, cannot Mysore with a population of not less that 60 lakhs have a University of its own?" (PS: Today more and more colleges are being started, but for a different reason - to make MONEY!)
5. State Bank of Mysore (it was first named The Bank of Mysore)
6. Public libraries in Mysore and Bangalore
7. Encouraging girls to attend school.
8. Mysore Chamber of Commerce
9. Kannada Sahitya Parishad or the Kannada Literary Academy
10. Sri Jayachamarajendra Occupational Institute, Bangalore - funded by the ENTIRE money [Rs 2 lacs] he earned from rescuing Bhadravati Iron Works (Modern Politicians - please learn something from Sir M.V.)
Sir M.V. was never interested in fame or publicity. But they came to him on their own. Every university in India sought him out to confer honoris causa. The univs of Allahabad, Andhra, Bombay, Calcutta, Jadhavpur, Mysore, Patna [not sure if he would want to accept from Patna now!] and Varanasi.
Some of the honours and laurels conferred on Sir M.V.,
1904
Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers for an unbroken period of 50 years
1906
"Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of his services
1911
C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) at the Delhi Darbar
1915
K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire)
1921
D.Sc. - Calcutta University
1931
LLD - Bombay University
1937
D.Litt - Benaras Hindu University
1943
Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India)
1944
D.Sc. - Allahabad University
1948
Doctorate - LLD., Mysore University
1953
D.Litt - Andhra University
1953
Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India
1955
Conferred ' BHARATHA RATNA'(The gem of India), the highest dinstiction of the country
1958
'Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal' by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal
1959
Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sir M.V. belongs to that small band of eminent Indians whose ideas and achievements have been among the truly creative and formative force of modern India. Sir M.V.'s slogan was Industrialize or Perish and Mahatama Gandhiji's view was Industrialize and Perish. In 1921 Gandhiji launched his non-cooperation movement which Sir M.V. did not agree with. Sir M.V. wrote to Gandhiji urging him to be dressed better in view of the upcoming Round Table Conference. Sir M.V. used to be immacaulately dressed.
The centenary of the birth of Sir M.V. was celebrated in Lal Bagh in Bangalore. Prime Minister Nehru flew down to Bangalore by a special plane to honour the greatest son of India. Sri Jayachamaraja Wodiyar presided over the function.
Sir. M.V. died on April 12, 1962 at the age of 102 years, 6 months and 8 days. As per his wish, he was created in his brith place, Muddanahalli.
BIO-DATA OF SIR.M.VISVESVARAYA |
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Honours conferred on Sir.M.V. | ||
1904 | : | Honorary Membership of London Institution of civil Engineers |
1911 | : | C.I.E.,(Companion of the Indian empire) at Delhi Darbar |
1915 | : | K.C.I.E(Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire) |
1921 | : | D.Sc. - Calcutta University |
1931 | : | LL.D.Bombay University. |
1937 | : | D.LITT . Benares Hindu University |
1943 | : | Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers(India) |
1944 | : | D.Sc.Allahabad University |
1947 | : | D.Sc.Andhra University |
1948 | : | Doctorate - LL.D.Mysore University |
1953 | : | D.LITT - Andhra University |
1953 | : | Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town planners, India |
1955 | : | " Bharata Ratna" Award- Government of India |
1958 | : | D.Sc. - Jadhavpur University Calcutta |
1958 | : | Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal |
1959 | : | Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore |
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Sri. M.V.'s Guiding Principles |
Never to use One's Official position to bestow favour on his relatives An ounce of neatness is equal to a ton of efficiency A well dressed person does things in a much better way than a slovenly oneThat a person who is neat in his dress can be clean and straight in his life. Industrialise or perish Always work hard. Always support a worthy cause at any cost. Nature never excuses Lapses. He never tolerated slipshod work! He wanted things to be precise and not vague He was very punctual and expected everybody to be so. He never lost an opportunity to stimulate drive, action, alertness and hustle in everybody who happened to meet him. Five hours for nature, seven for a very busy man and nine means lazy was his rational budget for sleep. Hard work performed in a disciplined manner will in most cases keep the worker fit and also prolong his life. Every man who has become great owes his achievements to incessant toil. The way to build a nation is to build a good citizen. The majority of the Citizens should be efficient of good character and posses a reasonably high sense of duty. Leaders should be truly patriotic and should believe in rectitude of conduct, Men of Merit and capacity should be the criteria for all special jobs and government appointments. Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Standard of efficiency is not determined by what we wish but by what we cannot tolerate In essentials unity, In non essentials liberty, In all things charity. Duty before comfort was his ideal He believed in the famous maxim "Everything worth doing is worth doing well". Seek opportunities for service without waiting for a call. If we are to progress we have to implicitly enforce the American methods of " Hustle" and German methods of hard work. Remember God helps those who help themselves. He did not like to be under any one's obligation He was punctual not only in keeping his engagement but also in all other respects. The note books and pencils were his inseparable companions. He was in a hurry, in a very great hurry to catch up with the progressive countries of the west on at least with Japan the rising sun of the east. Live within your income, have a purpose to give you any pleasure. He has said that it is worth while in life to make a pleasure of duty than a duty of pleasure. |
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