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UNILAG test-runs zero emission vehicle

The vehicle was designed to eliminate carbon emissions associated with internal combustion engines, as well as minimise acoustic noise when in operation.

The institution’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Academics and Research), Oluwole Familoni, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.

According to him, the production is an invaluable addition to the university’s efforts at preventing the release of toxic emissions to the environment.

He said the initiative was also to encourage indigenous engineering innovation.

According to Mr Familoni, UNILAG ZEV is a 63 per cent hardware and 100 per cent software home-made (Akoka content) mechatronics automobile device.

He noted that the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, had inaugurated the UNILAG Zero Emission Vehicle team in 2018.

The team is led by Samson Adeosun, a professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.

Mr Familoni, a professor pf Chemistry, told NAN that in line with the universal drive to minimise global warming, the vehicle was designed to eliminate carbon emissions associated with internal combustion engines, as well as minimise acoustic noise when in operation.

”In concept, the UNILAG ZEV team developed an adaptive and reprogrammable power train (drive) system.

”Although the drive train functionality is presently exhibited with six-passenger Sport Utility Shuttle Van platform, it can be reconfigured to support 18-seater commuter bus.

”In its exhibition form, the drive train Energy Management System (EMS) is programmed to deliver ultra-low-power supply to realise maximum range per battery charging cycle at campus shuttling speed of less than 20km//hour

”On highways, during intra or inter–city transits, the EMS is programmed to adaptively overwrite the shuttling mode and still minimise energy consumption.

”These user-specific features are absent on assembled imported Completely Knocked Down (CKD) components of electric vehicles that have been reported in Nigeria to date,” Familoni told NAN.

He added that the UNILAG ZEV came with an on-board auxiliary power supply system.

The professor of chemistry said the energy backup was available to the driver via a ‘please take me home switch’ on the dashboard.

According to him, the vehicle runs on an improvised refurbished Nickel Hydride battery that delivers up to five-kilometre range per charging cycle when operated in Campus Shuttle mode.

”The range is extendable to 350km at optimum average speed of 110k/hour at highway mode, when appropriate lithium ion battery is installed.”

Commenting on the development, the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Mr Ogundipe, said the product was proof that the institution was neck-deep into demand-driving research.

He said that if given more support, the university would do more.

”We need more support for funding research,” he said.

Other members of the team that assembled the ZEV include Akinfenwa Fashanu of the university’s Systems Engineering Department, Mohammed Usman (Chemical Engineering), and Adeola Balogun (Electrical and Electronics Engineering. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/470283-unilag-test-runs-zero-emission-vehicle.html


The Deputy Vice-chancellor (Academic and Research), Professor Oluwole Familoni on Thursday tested the zero Emission Electric car.

The car was driven around the campus by a student working with the team.

The car is without noise or emission and it fully electric, it was built by a team that comprises of some staff at the faculty of engineering and some student.

This is all part of some undergoing projects the university is working on to produce creative minds to power the nation in the current electronic age

https://www.exammaterials.com.ng/unilag-test-it-electric-car-around-the-campus/

Nice innovation sha


I see this taking over keke(tricycle) in the next few years.this I have seen.

If this is true then its by far more beautiful than most Indian Tata motors

Not bad.... Quite innovative.

Nice innovation. Rome was not built in a day. Slow and steady, we will get there.

If not for buhari, we would have gone far by now.

WOW! just WOW!!

Please they should kindly do one for our Bubu.

Kudos to the team

!!

Chidima's school

You just wanna do ur own korope

Good, but when are we going commercial with it

Unilag Amaka

Nice

Nice... The Nigerian youths r pro active . Kudos

Excellent initiative from the University, hope the drug lord and his owomida goblins won't frustrate this wonderful development

Kk

This Car looks more Original, Standard, well Constructed and better than the fake, Substandard, CHINA made INNOSON MOTORS. That are assembled in Nnewi.

Nigerians should stop disgracing themselves.

Before you call it Made in Unilag, Anambra, Ogun etc. ensure atleast 70% of the parts were locally produced. Atleast manufacture a custom engine for your prototype locally.

Any mechanic anywhere in the world can couple up a vehicle from constituent parts. I don't understand why that is being celebrated here.

Almaigaa:
This Car looks more Original, Standard, well Constructed and better than the fake, Substandard, CHINA made INNOSON MOTORS. That are assembled in Nnewi.

Have you ride one before?

Almaigaa:
This Car looks more Original, Standard, well Constructed and better than the fake, Substandard, CHINA made INNOSON MOTORS. That are assembled in Nnewi.

Fulani herdsman...you dey live under the rock for Fouta Djallon in Guinea?

Unilag we be proud of this , not the other way round , unilag student stab super tv boss to death

Built or assembled

Which one

Can it carry the whole of lagos?

Modified korope?

University of Lagos gonna give Tesla a run for their money

Unilag did this?

All hope is not lost indeed.

Maybe, just maybe,

Nigeria will be good!

These are the type of good news we need as a nation, check my signature

Missambitious:
Nice innovation. Rome was not built in a day. Slow and steady, we will get there.

If not for buhari, we would have gone far by now.

We don see rhe nipples, what else?

Very innovative..May God bless the good works of our hands.

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Kudos to my Alma mater,

They should commercialize it by using the vehicle as campus shuttles and rid the campus off those rickety campus shuttles.

God bless Nigeria

This is not car na
This na rechargeable shuttle