Friday, October 8, 2010

To Kaar or two cars?

It's slightly confusing. It's meant to be. The caption. Hope you didn't understand.

We at EMENENTS are thinking big. Thinking long-term. Now we are thinking of changing the world. Or some part only. Or some part of some part only. Or some part of some part of some part of the world only.

The idea is to develop Kaar as what it is supposed to be. Vehicle for the ordinary Pakistani. An interal combstion engine, gasoline driven car that we can bring to the market sometime in the foreseeable future. Smarter use of existing technology, as I like to point out ever so often.

But this is not where the idea ends. On the contrary, that's where it begins. The second part of the idea is to develop new technologies that are expected to be dominant in the future. More futuristic future.

And what, where and when are we looking at? We are looking at the depleting fossil fuel resources in the world. We are looking at the renewable energy future.

We are looking at an electric car. Our aim is to develop one as a prototype for Shell Eco Marathon, who have been kind enough to include the all-electric, plug-in category from 2011 in the event. In time, we would like to take what we learn into the present, via the urban concept category, onto Pakistan's road.

Ambitious. But that's us.

PS: now, I'd have to make some posts defending the logicale of the all-electric car too :-(

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