Engineering students from nine universities in Egypt spent the last 10 months creating electric vehicles to compete for Egypt’s first Electric Vehicle Rally, which took place in early October.
The idea for the rally, known by its catchy abbreviation, EVER, comes from the group of graduates of Cairo’s Ain Shams University, which established the ASU Racing Team in 2010. The organizers are also part of the ASU Faculty of Engineering innovation hub (iHub) and they have participated in electric vehicle (EV) competitions in Manila for the last six years. Since 2010, some 600 students at the university have participated in the construction of electric vehicles, some of which were tested in rallies and competitions abroad.
The team was eager to share this experience with other universities through an inter-university rally involving workshops and mentorship for engineering students that would give them the skills to build electric vehicles. The opportunity came when the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), which is part of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, announced a tender last year for projects that would encourage development and innovation in the automotive sector.
Teams from nine different universities competed to build the best electronic vehicle and raced their creations in an Oct.13 rally in the country’s New Administrative Capital south of Cairo.
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