KNUST constructs solar-powered 4X4 vehicle
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
in partnership with the Technical University of Munich, has constructed a
solar-powered 4x4 vehicle.
The environmentally-friendly vehicle, meant to carry passengers and
goods, was inaugurated by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the
51st congregation of the KNUST, Kumasi, on Saturday.
It was developed by the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and
Physics, and comes as a breakthrough as the nation searches for ways to
build a more robust automobile industry.
Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, Vice-Chancellor of the KNUST, said the
invention was the University’s response to living up to its core mandate
of spearheading development of innovative technologies.
The solar-powered vehicle, he said, was still being tested and tried
over some period with the hope of fine-tuning it in order to bring it to
standard
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, taking a test drive after he inaugurated the car. With him on the vehicle is Mr Marhu Soctes, one of the project leaders from Germany |
When completed it could become the first solar-powered 4x4 vehicle to be manufactured on the African continent.
Prof Obiri-Danso hinted that the University’s College of Engineering,
had in recent times invented an open-space fire detector, solar-powered
traffic lights and drones to support the nation’s development
processes.
He called for adequate funding of research activities of the
University to enable it come out with cutting-edge technologies for the
benefit of the nation.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who is also Chancellor of the KNUST, lauded the
team of researchers who worked on the project, and expressed the hope
that it would encourage the government to be more interested in
resourcing the University for more of such innovations.
A total of 9, 160 post and under-graduate students passed out of this
year’s congregation from the six colleges of the University.
This comprised the College of Science, College of Health Sciences,
College of Engineering, College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
College of Art and Built Environment, as well as the College of
Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Source: Graphic.com.gh
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