Students of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore built Singapore first urban solar electric car with an innovative 3D-printed body shell that has 150 parts.

The 3D printed electric car was mounted on a carbon fibre single shell chasis, the NTU venture (NV) 8, will race in the urban concept category at this year’s shell eco-marathon Asia. NTU students have also built the NTU Venture (NV) 9, a slick three-wheeled racer which can take sharp corners with little loss in speed due to its unique tilting ability inspired by motorcycle racing.​

NV9, featuring hand-made silicon solar cells, will be NTU’s entry in the Prototype category at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia which will take place in Manila from 26 Feb to 1 March.

Designed from scratch by NTU undergraduates and built over a year, these two eco-cars will aim to attain the highest fuel efficiency.

According to Associate Professor Ng Heong Wah, who mentored the two teams, said the students had taken a leap of faith and decided to go with disruptive innovations instead of making improvements over the previous version.

“Using the latest engineering techniques learnt from their studies in NTU, the students have developed innovations such as silicon solar cells that can be contoured to follow the car’s shape. This allows for maximum harvesting of the solar energy and a tilting mechanism in NV9 that can ‘lean’ in the direction of the turn to avoid losing speed,” Prof Ng said.
http://www.itecblaz.com/singapore-university-students-build-first-3d-printed-electric-car/

wow... When will our engineering students stop mixing dead acids and bases and start real engineering?

The problem here most science student don't have passion for science, they only go into that field because they hope to get a job some day. And secondly science projects cost money, were would the fund come from

Cool design

trust some contries are backward in terms of innovations but wots worse is that we aint even in d queue....

wow... thats the more reason why i love science.. its all about creativity and innovation
not in Nigeria ooo, cos we are far behind..

jose556:
wow... When will our engineering students stop mixing dead acids and bases and start real engineering?

When your government decides that Science and Engineering is the bedrock of any nation to develop, when they stop paying lip service to creating R and D centers across the nation and pump serious fund into education, when they decide to get their eyes off oil; when lecturers decide to teach things related to the modern world and not using their outdated notes, when they decide and are willing to learn from students who are updated and also make their own researches and finally, when students decide to go off social media, improve on their written and spoken English (this is to convey thoughts articulately) and dedicate at least two hours everyday to researching and think of how to become innovative in the field they are interested in by being observant (almost everyone is thinking oil oil oil).

Seeing that picture breaks my heart that we are not close to the above. I mean, this is a nation that gained independence almost the same time with Nigeria (correct me if I am wrong) and see how far they have come.