Malaysia
Launch of EV prototype promote sustainability practices and skills
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MALAYSIA. The Star (08 January 2023) - Five years of research and development finally came to fruition with the launch of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia Racing Team’s (HWUMRT) first road-ready electric vehicle prototype.
Built with a focus on sustainability, the prototype was designed to lessen noise pollution and to encourage the use of clean sources of energy for zero carbon emissions, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy.
The HWUMRT started in 2019 when the varsity received a single-passenger car prototype from Universiti Malaya.
It was decided then that more students should participate in studying the donated car as part of their extracurricular activity.
Realising the project’s learning potential, it was then added to the varsity’s mechanical engineering curriculum the following year, under the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS).
The racing car project has since helped students to maximise their potential by enabling them to push themselves and to apply the knowledge learnt.
Since its inception, the project, which also serves to mentor new students, has seen some 20 students from across the varsity’s programmes such as actuarial science and quantity surveying participating annually.
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