Title: Shell Eco-marathon: On-Track Indonesia 2022 – Pravega
Duration: 03:55
Description:
Pravega team manager Kalyani Sudhir Kumar discusses the team’s recyclable, biodegradable vehicle, and their support of underprivileged students through the non-governmental organisation Inspire.
Pravega Transcript
[Background music]
Upbeat, playful music
[Visuals]
Kalyani appears, full frame.
[Text displays]
Recycling
Kalyani (28:10):
Recycling materials is not just advantageous to the environment…
[Text displays]
Advantageous to the environment
Kalyani:
… it’s also very economically effective.
[Text displays]
Economically effective.
[Visuals]
Cuts to close up of vehicle driving away, before cutting to shot of team members standing around vehicle.
[Text displays]
Pravega
Government Engineering College Barton Hill, India
Kalyani voice-over:
We're Pravega from Government Engineering College Barton Hill in India.
[Visuals]
Cuts to long shot of vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Kalyani.
[Text displays – name strap]
Kalyani Sudhir Kumar
Team Manager
Kalyani:
What makes Pravega special is that since the inception, we've always explored green and innovative materials.
[Visuals]
Cuts to three-way split-screen of team members working on vehicle, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We've always wanted to implement the concept of circular economy and recycling into our car.
[Text displays]
Circular economy
Recycling
[Visuals and animation]
Ripple transitions to side shot of vehicle.
Kalyani voice-over:
So it's not just about energy efficiency for us.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
This time we've built our car entirely from waste materials.
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Cuts to three-way split of vehicle close-ups.
[Text displays]
Waste materials
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We have not spent a penny on buying materials for our car.
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Ripple transitions to low-angle shot of vehicle being rolled backwards onto a ramp.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We are coming from Kerala. It's one of the most developed states in India. It's a very beautiful state – very highly educated. But one thing it lacks is a proper waste management system.
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Lacks waste management system
Kalyani:
All the garbage, the plastics, the cloth, the tyres, the food waste, et cetera, is all just burned in the backyard or just dumped.
[Text displays]
Garbage burned
Garbage dumped
Kalyani:
And if the government collects it, again, just burnt away. So we wanted to do something about that.
[Visuals]
Cuts to three-way shot of team members posing and celebrating in front of a sign that reads: “We passed Technical Inspection”.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
First off, we figured out what materials we'd use for our car.
[Visuals]
Cuts to digital rendering of a plastic, 3D-printed car.
[Text displays]
Plastic 3D print
Kalyani voice-over:
So we thought plastic for the top part, we could 3D print it, and the underbody, we could make a composite out of cloth.
[Visuals]
Cuts to shot of team member working on cloth composite.
[Text displays]
Underbody cloth composite
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We had to devise a strategy to, collect these materials properly.
[Visuals]
Cuts to split screen of materials being collect and a close-up of Kalyani, before cutting to a close-up of the materials.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We campaigned and marketed our collection drive. We went door to door in all of our neighbourhoods to collect this waste.
[Visuals and animation]
Ripple transitions to image of waste being collected, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
For the top part, we collected PLA, polylactic acid, plastic, from the garbage.
[Visuals]
Cuts to split-screen shot of plastics being collected and processed. Then cuts to another split-screen of crushed plastic and a close-up of Kalyani.
Kalyani:
And then we crushed it, and we converted them into filaments and then we 3D printed our parts
[Visuals]
Cuts to three-way split of vehicle parts being 3D printed. Then cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
And for the underbody, we used glass fibre…
[Visuals]
Cuts to shot of team members working on reinforced cloth.
[Text displays]
Glass fibre
Kalyani voice-over:
… to reinforce our cloth…
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Reinforce cloth
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
… to make a plastic composite.
[Text displays]
Plastic composite
Kalyani:
… And we got it tested in an ISO standard facility…
[Visuals]
Cuts to image of team members working on glass fibre vehicle part.
[Text displays]
Tested ISO standard facility
Kalyani voice-over:
… and they said it was good to go to make our car.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
The plastic part is entirely biodegradable.
[Visuals and animation]
Ripple transitions to digital rendering of vehicle.
Kalyani voice-over:
If you bury our car it'll maybe take six to seven years, but it'll be entirely a part of the soil afterwards.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
The cloth composite part, we had to do an additional process with solvents, but once it's done, it's completely biodegradable.
[Visuals]
Cuts to image of cloth composite vehicle part.
[Visuals and animation]
Ripple transitions to long shot of vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
In India, where I come from, the most used mode transportation is auto-rickshaws.
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Auto-rickshaws
Kalyani:
So there's millions of auto-rickshaws out there. The material that's covering them is plastic. So if we could use our design, our material into those vehicles, we could save millions of tons of plastic used to make the auto-rickshaws…
[Visuals]
Cuts to three-way split of vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
… so our design is carbon absorbing, it's recycled, it's biodegradable.
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Carbon absorbing
Recycled
Biodegradable
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Ripple transitions to shot of vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We study in a government supported institution, which means that we use society's money to study. We actually pay less than a hundred US dollars a year
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Ripple transitions to shot of team members celebrating.
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
So working with Inspire, it's one of the ways we feel like we're paying to our society for what they're giving us.
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Cuts to team members celebrating with trophy and prize cheque, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
Inspire is an organisation founded by the mechanical engineering seniors of our university.
[Visuals]
Cuts to shot students at Inspire.
Kalyani voice-over:
It's an NGO that helps underprivileged students.
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Helps underprivileged students
[Visuals]
Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
Our motto is, “to be inspired is great, to inspire is incredible”.
[Visuals]
Cuts to additional shots of students at Inspire, followed by a group photo outside the building.
Kalyani voice-over:
We reach out to the underprivileged areas in our society and teach them to think about new opportunities in life.
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New Opportunities
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Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
Our students are in an age range of six to 18.
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Ripple transitions to more shots of Inspire teachers talking students.
Kalyani voice-over:
A big part of our initiative is to conduct weekly classes for the underprivileged areas or orphanages.
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Weekly classes
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Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
We would plan a session for them to think about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Cuts to image of Inspire teacher standing in front of students while holding a model aeroplane.
[Text displays]
Think about STEM
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Cuts to image of students operating a remote controlled vehicle.
Kalyani voice-over:
There's no feeling greater than that.
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Cuts back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
To make someone think of a new possibility in their life…
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Cuts to image of Inspire teacher talking to students, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
… to help someone get there, and to see them achieve their dreams. it's a very incredible feeling and that's exactly what Inspire’s about.
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Achieve their dreams
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Ripple transitions to group photo of Inspire students and teachers, before cutting back to Kalyani.
Kalyani:
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Endboard with Shell Logo
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