Title: Shell Eco-marathon: NL 2022 – TUfast Eco Team
Duration: 03:25
Description: Shell Eco-marathon Back on Track: NL 2022 team transcript – TUfast Eco Team
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Nidhin:
Our team motto is “Our journey to sustainability”.
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Our journey to sustainability
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TUfast Eco Team
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Nidhin
We are the TUfast Eco Team and we represent the Technical University of Munich from Germany.
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Nidhin Jacob
Team driver
Nidhin:
Shell eco-marathon is very important for our team because it gives us a world stage where we get to show our engineering prowess with people from over 28 countries coming together, putting their minds together to build a car that pushes the boundary of efficiency.
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Efficiency
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Nidhin:
What makes our team so cool is that we are extremely international and we choose not to put any country flag on a car, because the car is not built by one or two people was by the whole team. So we would like to represent them all.
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Nidhin:
We have built a car out of carbon fibre and with advanced composite materials going into the manufacturing and metal 3D-printed parts.
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Nidhin:
Everything that you see in our car has been designed and developed by us.
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Nidhin:
With the pandemic it was a difficult situation for companies who were sponsoring us for the past year as well. There was a huge shift in economics in the world, which resulted in a scarcity of materials especially with, uh, chemicals and resins. So we had to think outside the box…
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Think outside the box
Nidhin:
… and also we would like to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible.
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Reduce carbon footprint
Nidhin:
Hence, we had the idea to approach companies, not to just sponsor us, but also give us materials that would rather go to waste.
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Nidhin:
For example, the carbon fibre that we use for the panels in a body, in some parts of a car have been sourced from some industry leaders, which was in the verge of being expired and would've gone directly to landfills, but we've been able to give them a new life that helps us financially as well as that helps in making a greener impact on the environment.
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Greener impact
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Nidhin:
I firmly believe that energy efficient cars will not just influence our lives in our day to day transportation, but have a direct impact on the feasibility and design concepts of a lot of products around us…
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Design concepts
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Nidhin:
… so the technology that we develop and build for automotive industry to have a higher level of efficiency could definitely transfer into even the day-to-day life of people who might not be directly related to transportation.
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Nidhin:
Let it be effective use of energy, energy storage, energy recuperation, or even just building an inverter like we have in a car, which is extremely, extremely energy efficient that could be used in many industries across the world and not just automotive.
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Nidhin:
It is crucial and very important for us to understand the fact that we need to build a world that is far more sustainable.
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Sustainable
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Nidhin:
If young engineers and young managers like ourselves do not put our effort into building a brighter future where the carbon footprint is reduced, then who else will, it is our future that we need to guard.
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Brighter future
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Nidhin:
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