Transportation/trucking/railroad - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Chakravyuh: In our nation where health and environment are at stakes due to exponentially increasing air pollution, the challenge is to build a sustainable & affordable mode of transportation and promote the use of health mobility to reduce carbon footprints making travel safe and healthy. A transformation in a transport system is being observed, and a lot of them is enabled by an emerging health mobility using an e-bike technology.We are a team of IIT Madras students building a smart e-bike with an in-house electric control system for efficient electric power management. This e-bike can become a larger fleet of transport technology going forward, improving the health, saving people time and the environment altogether.Vision: Our vision is to come up with a smart bicycle using technological advancement whose sole purpose is to reduce human effort and reduce their carbon footprints by commuting with an electric power and improve health because health is good for the environment and good for the economy as well.Achievements:Winners of national clean air crowd sourcing competition organized by University of Berkeley, The Energy and Research Institute IIT Delhi and more.one of the top 25 teams selected for Carbon Zero Challenge, 2019.