Mysore  :

 The students of final year Automobile Engineering Department of D.Banumaiah’s Polytechnic in city, who participated in the ‘Do-it-Yourself’ State-level Project Exhibition, organised jointly by BCN Polytechnic, Lakshmeshwar in Gadag and Board of Technical Education, Bangalore, won the second prize for their Hybrid Bicycle concept for the academic year 2012-13.

The city students, who have developed the Hybrid Bicycle are S. Harish, Idrish Pasha, H.P. Praveen Sharma, V. Srinivasa, Syed Ummer, J. Nagaraju and H.M. Narayana. They were guided by A.R.Nanda Kumar and HOD B. Lakshminarayan.

The Hybrid Bicycle runs with the help of both petrol and solar energy. The advantages of this bicycle are: rapid developments in hybrid technology to improve engine efficiency, reduces pollution, helps reduce dependency on fossil fuels which directly affects fuel prices, powered by an electric motor and a small internal combustion engine, gives better mileage and are much cleaner than normal vehicles with lesser CO and other green house gas emission.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 12th, 2013