That is so nice. May he have all the support he needs to build more things. Long time back, some of my friends and college mates built a solar car [1] that we

That is so nice. May he have all the support he needs to build more things. Long time back, some of my friends and college mates built a solar car [1] that we took to Australia for world solar challenge 2011. It is a 3000km race across the continent. We were very happy to see the community around the solar cars is quite strong. The same has lead to companies like LightYear[2] working on extending range of EVs with solar. It was quite a struggle back then. Our LiFePo4 batteries got lost in shipping so we had to use 4 times heavier car gel batteries, our car had to be sawed in three sections a few days before the shipping, so we could ship in time, we got bad media coverage in Australia as we spent a few nights sleeping in the garage trying to join the sawed parts together (They kinda hinted we were poor and did not have a place to live, while we had a hostel but still had to work round the clock to make it in time as some people arrived late due to delays), and we often ran out of money as the university could only sponsor the car and not all our expenses. So, we lived on credit. When we came back, we heard foul things from people who thought we stole their funding, I had low attendance in the courses and was about to be flunked. I cried to the administration to let me sit for the exams. But we stuck together as a team. I am happy that we did it. I learned a lot. I guess, projects like these should be encouraged. Even though the car we made was not a great one compared to the western fordian ideals of efficiency and speed, but we felt that India (and other developing countries) need representation and visibility in this domain. We built a car with whatever we had and hey! it still runs robustly. It is a bit slow, but hey! Australia is soo beautiful, we gotta take our time. We did make it to finish line without any major repairs. The cost of our entire car was equivalent to the cost of the spare motor used by one of the top teams. I always think, there are other ways of looking at things than efficiency and speed, like initiative, frugality and the spirit of creation. There are often less stories on the second side. This story is one of them. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHEYckl8xI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHEYckl8xI [2] https://lightyear.one/ https://lightyear.one/