SolarMobil Manipal information

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SolarMobil Manipal is the official Solar Car student team of Manipal University, Manipal, India. The team, founded in 2011 by a group of engineering students of Manipal Institute of Technology, is the third Indian solar car team and the first Indian team to build a passenger solar car. SolarMobil is a student project aimed at research & development of solar powered electric vehicle.

Since its founding, the SolarMobil Manipal team has built 4 cars, Freyr-1 - a single seater solar race car, SERVe (Solar Electric Road Vehicle), which is India's first institutional solar electric vehicle prototype and SM-S1 - India's first four-seater solar passenger vehicle. The 4th car, SM-S2 is a Cruiser Class solar race car aimed at participating in the World Solar Challenge, and was launched on 14 November 2018.