SolarMobil Manipal

The team of SolarMobil was started in 2011 with a vision of innovating and engineering towards making affordable Green Technology. Our team comprises of 25+ undergraduate engineering students from Manipal Institute of Technology. The team is interdisciplinary - consisting of students from Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation & Control, Mechatronics, Industrial Production and Automobile Engineering. There is an even mix of students from all 3 years which are guided by the faculty of the college. The team is broadly divided into four categories– Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, and Management. Each of these has a number of subsystems under it for better organized planning. We started our first project in 2011 with the car Freyr1 which was a single seater solar electric vehicle prototype. The idea cropped up while thinking about the global environmental. Our second project “SERVe : Solar Electric Road Vehicle” is four wheeled two passenger seater solar electric vehicle manufactured in 2015. The launch of SERVe was very successful and proved to the world that a solar electric vehicle is a viable alternative. SM-S1, the third car made by the team in 2016 is India's first four seater solar-electric prototype car that proved to be a huge milestone in the team's progress. Following the success of the SM-S1, the team worked on building SM-S2, a two-seater cruiser class car abiding the BWSC guidelines. SM-S2 was the most aerodynamically efficient car, the team had ever built which was completed in 2018. Our fifth car, Zenith was the teams’ second single-seater project. It was made for national events such as ESVC and SEVC 2023 wherein the team drove 100 kilometres on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India coming 4th and bagged multiple awards such as solar endurance, cost and business plan. The teams’ sixth project is engineering a single-seater vehicle for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge’25