Prof. Dr. Alaa Mohamed Al-Batsh – Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Egyptian Russian University announced the participation of the Neutrino Racing Team that consists of some students of the Mechatronics and Robotics Department, in the competition organized by the Egyptian Scientific Research Academy under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to manufacture electric cars for the third successive year.
The participation in this competition dates back to 2018 when the Academy of Scientific Research announced the first Egyptian rally for the manufacture of electric cars with a single passenger capacity to localize this industry in Egypt, and to prepare and build Egyptian engineering cadres able to work in laying the foundation for the electric car industry, which represents the future of the industry. In 2018, the faculty decided to participate by the Neutrino Racing Team consisting of 12 students from the second year of the Mechatronics and Robotics Department, where the team entered into competition with teams from 26 other Egyptian governmental and private universities to prepare the best designs. The jury consisting of a group of auto industry experts in Egypt examined the designs submitted by the contestants to select only 9 teams out of the 26 applicants for the competition in order to receive full support and funding from the Academy of Scientific Research to implement their designs on the ground and participate in the finals.
After months of work and effort, the Egyptian Russian University team was able to grab a seat from among the 9 seats who received support, so that the university would be the only one of private universities to receive support from the Academy of Scientific Research. The car was implemented by the team and participated until the last stages of the evaluation of that competition.
In 2019, the Neutrino Racing Team participated in the second edition of the competition (Ever 2019), and from its previous participation, it had acquired skills in designing, manufacturing and assembling electric cars. The competition was between 31 universities, of whom only 15 qualified for the finals, and among them was the Egyptian Russian University team. The team obtained funding for the academy to manufacture the car and participated in all evaluation stages, so that the team ranked the second in the Republic in the rally, which was held in the New Administrative Capital in November the past. The team car was distinguished by its ability to travel a long distance without external charging of the batteries.
The team is now working to participate in the competition for the year 2020 (Ever 2020), hoping to continue achieving advanced positions in the competition, through the accumulation of experience and knowledge about the electric car industry and the transfer of that knowledge, scientific & practical experience to new students in the faculty to become a scientific center in this specialty.