70 engineering college teams showcase electric buggies

BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT) hosted a unique six-day motorsports event BAJA SAEINDIA 2024 on its premises, Narsapur campus on Wednesday. The event will go on till March 11.
The theme of the event is ‘Multiverse of Mobility’ and the event has introduced two exciting new categories – aBAJA (Autonomous BAJA) and hBAJA (Beginning with CNG and slowly transitioning to Hydrogen propulsion) alongside the ever-popular mBAJA and eBAJA categories.
About  70 teams from different engineering colleges, including reputed colleges such as IITs, NITs participated in the event. Each team comprising 30 team members are participated in the event. The participating students were tasked to design and fabricate a single-seater all-terrain electric buggy in the boundaries of the rulebook and were required to take part in the trifold evaluation consisting of the preliminary event, virtual event, technical scrutiny, student workshops, static events report submission, etc, which would finally lead up to the finale – BAJA SAEINDIA 2024 Phase-3.