STAFF REPORT KHI: Governments and industrialists do not offer financial and technical support at a macro level to enable students to turn projects into commercial successes..jpg)
This is the opinion of Talha Saleem, a student of Pakistan Navy Engineering College of NUST, and part of a team that designed the prototype of a fuel-efficient and light-weight smart car to be put in the race to win the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) to be held in Manila in coming March.
Saleem believes that he and his team can make the car into a commercial success. “We can make the necessary modifications, but all we need to make this a commercial success is support and supervision from an established company.”
Rahim Rasool, another member of the team, said the group has also thought about several other modifications that could make the car commercially successful.
To a query, Sipra, another member of the team, said the durability of the car would not be compromised because of using aluminium. “We have placed proper support at its pressure points, avoiding any risk of rupture and breakage,” she said.