The Eco-Car Project, led by Clive Hands of the Mechanical Engineering Department, is a student-driven project aimed at designing, manufacturing, and testing an ultra-light vehicle.
The vehicle competes in international Shell Eco-Marathon events with a goal to travel as far as possible on a single litre of standard petrol.
The Eco-Car is a spin-off from the original Solar Car Project and explores the urgent need for vehicles that are fuel-saving, efficient and light-weight as a significant focus area in the international engineering community.
The project has already achieved many of its objectives, “Eco-Lab has spawned multiple associated projects in developing technological fields like Augmented Reality, Cloud Data Analytics, Telemetry & Communications, Analysis & Simulation as well as Advanced Materials”.
Watch the featured SABC 1 piece below. The peice on the Eco-car starts at 9:50.