Jharkhand

• 03 Aug 2023

Dhanbad IIT-ISM's Electric Racing Car got 3rd place

Why in News?

According to the information received from the media on August 2, 2023, the electric racing car prepared by the team Machismo of IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, has won third place in the overall category, performing brilliantly in the international level competition PI-EV 2023 held in Bangalore.

Key Points:

• The car has also won the Best Report award in the category of Failure Mode and Impact Analysis. Additionally, the team has also secured third place in the Marketing and Engineering Design category.
• In this competition, first place was won by the team of Indonesia's Institute of Technology Sepuluh and second place by the team of Rajaram Bapu Institute of Technology.
• The competition took place in the last week of July. The result was announced on 29 July.
• It is worth mentioning that team Machismo of IIT Dhanbad has achieved this success in its second attempt. Earlier, the team had participated for the first time in 2022 in the electric vehicle category.
• According to the team's vice-captain and team tech coordinator Herambh Dakshinamoorthy, Machismo Racing has been manufacturing cars since 2008. Earlier it competed in the combustion engine category & started participating in the electrical vehicle category in the year 2022.