UNILAG Students Build An Electric Car

A team of students from the University of Lagos who recently returned from The Netherlands after participating in the 2014 Shell Eco-Marathon. ‘AUTONOV II’ were reported to have built an electric car.The car was officially shown to the university’s Governing Council at the Sports Centre last Friday.
In an interview with Abraham the team manager, he said that even though the car could not complete the 10 laps for a valid attempt in the competition, the car still  passed 10 technical and safety inspections. When asked why they haven't built a real car, he said "Probably funding, support or maybe the belief that it can be done. It will take someone who will say we can do it, and another person who will say, ‘Here’s the money’, and yet another person who will say ‘I have the knowledge’. So it will take a meeting of these three before that can be done. There may be other factors, too".
Also when asked about his teammates he said " It was a special team. Apart from engineering, the competition concerns itself with how teams can communicate the ideas of energy efficiency and the competition at large to the general public, among other things. So we found ourselves recruiting students from Mass Communication, Creative Arts, Architecture and Sciences. There were 20 of us in all. Our leader was Professor Ike Moweto; he travelled with us. We also had five other supervisors; but they did not have to travel with us. "
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