Team PNEC-NUST on Their Way to Make Pakistan Proud!

Every year shell asks students from around the world to build the most energy efficient vehicle. And the green in us cannot be more happy. Oh, I'm forgetting. There are two greens in me. Don't forget I'm a Pakistani. And this nature loving Pakistani cannot be more proud of the team of students from Pakistan who are taking part in this competition known as "Shell Eco-Marathon." Now these students are from NUST (National University of Science and Technology) and NUST, as always, is competing in this competion. Their third year this time. Awesome!

They've been on their way to the top since the competition started a few years ago. This is a perfect opportunity for all the nature loving Pakis to root for nature and their country. It's time people quit complaining nobody in this country does anything for nature except destroying it. Well, guess what? You're wrong. These talented young people from NUST are showing us how to be modern, educated, travel the world and be green. Truly green.

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According to their press release

Team PNEC-NUST is a team of fifteen engineers from Pakistan Navy Engineering College of National University of Sciences and Technology who are undertaking the challenge of designing and constructing a fuel efficient vehicle. This vehicle will compete in the Shell Eco-marathon against teams from all over the Asia to see who has created the most energy efficient vehicle.  Team PNEC-NUST will be competing in the Prototype and Urban Concept category of the competition. The rules and regulations of both the categories will guide the vehicles toward becoming a road ready automobile, rather than a conceptual prototype.

Now that sounds cool, no?

Now this is what Shell Eco-Marathon is

 

 Shell hosts the Eco-marathon throughout the world. Teams compete in the Americas, Asia, and Europe; but wherever the Eco-marathon is held, teams are pushed to design a vehicle that will travel the furthest using the least amount of fuel.  The Shell Eco-marathon is separated into two categories: Prototype designs and Urban Concept designs. Team PNEC-NUST will be creating both concept, gasoline powered vehicle that will maximize its distance traveled while minimizing the gasoline consumed.

Prototype Group: Futuristic streamlined vehicles where the primary design consideration is reducing drag and maximizing efficiency. Vehicles in this category aim to build the most aerodynamic and fuel-efficient vehicle possible.

Urban Concept: Vehicles built to more conventional four-wheel roadworthy criteria.

Efficiency has always been a very important aspect of modern automobile design. With the current trends in energy cost and ecological awareness, it is especially important to engineer automobiles with efficiency in mind. In this way, the Shell Eco-marathon’s goal is of global importance. By judging vehicles on a rating of kilometers pet kilojoules, the competition represents a level playing field for vehicles independent of their propulsion systems - whether internal combustion, plug-in electric, solar, or hydrogen fuel cell. 

So let's wish the guys from PNEC-NUST good luck and pray for their win.