The students of University of Houston have been competing for design of the next generation of the luxury electric vehicles as the part of their coursework. The co-directors of the Industrial design program have offered the students an opportunity to enroll in the design competition while they still gain the class credits. Seniors who had designed the exterior of the vehicles had paired up with juniors who had created interiors to form as many as eight teams.
A professor in the university said that through the programs, the students in the past have been designing other mode of transportations such as electric scooters and bicycles but they have never tried their hand at a car. The timing they think is amazing because the industry of electric vehicle is now moving to Texas. This offers them an opportunity for positioning their design program and being ready for this industry.
The creativity of the students along with their innovation is going to be on display in an exhibition which is going to open on 2nd of December at the Mashburn Gallery in the Hines college. Winners will also be announced there.
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This is a competition which has been made possible through the sponsors TexPower EV, Photon Auto and IQP. The Photon Auto which is based in Houston is going to develop a new vehicle which has a range of close to 500+ miles and has lidar systems as an equipment which sends the pulses of laser light for determining the presence of the shape as well as distance of the objects and helps in crash prevention.
This competition is going to encourage innovation and is going to help in the growth of the market as a whole along with the innovation and should be encouraged all over the world particularly in countries like India.