4 Lucknow School Kids Innovate E-Vehicles That Clean Air When Being Driven

These children do not buy toys; instead, they make their own. And while doing so, they are ensuring sustainability and supporting India’s vision for a clean and green future.

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In Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, four school-going children have built three environment-friendly cars, which cause neither sound nor air pollution. Instead, they clean the surrounding air when driven.

An 11-year-old, Viraj Amit Mehrotra is one of the manufacturers of these battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs).

Explaining their features, he says, “Our cars have a BrushLess Direct Current Motor of 1,000 Watt, 1200 Watt, and 1400 Watt. They come with a special feature called DFS or Dust Filtration System, which acts like an air purifier for a car. It cleans up to six feet of dust-laden air from the surroundings.”

Viraj manufactured these cars along with three other young innovators — Garvit Singh (12), Shreyansh Mehrotra (14), and his younger brother Aaryav Amit Mehrotra (9). The kids say they were inspired by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, an automotive company that makes electric cars.

“Presently, EVs in India are too expensive to be afforded by everyone. They can cost up to Rs 60 lakh per car; the Tesla car itself costs up to Rs 2 crore. So, we wanted to build cost-effective cars that also clean the environment,” says Viraj, who has made his friends and family proud with the innovation.

He aspires to become a teacher of engineering and help his students chase their passion.

What is Dust Filtration System?

The young manufacturers designed a very unique concept called Dust Filtration System or DFS, which is a multi-channel layer pollution-absorbing technology. It captures suspended dust from the tyres of the car while taking in the polluted air, which then goes through multiple channels to finally emit fresh air.

“If cars running on DFS are used everywhere, the outdoor air quality will get better than the indoors,” says Milind Raj, the founder of a robotics and innovation company called ‘Roboz.in’.

The young innovators who refer to themselves as ‘Four-ever’ were mentored by Raj.

“No one believed that these children could create these cars on their own. But, after just two years, these cars were right in front of Vidhan Sabha, where the government acknowledged their efforts. So anything you imagine can be real,” concludes Raj.

The team aims to add 5G features to their electric cars in 2023, which will allow them to be moved anywhere using mobile phone applications.

Edited by Pranita Bhat