Team Averera on Electric Vehicles

Title: Shell Eco-marathon: On-Track – Averera 2023

Duration: 02:58

Description: Team Averera leader discusses their battery-powered car, and turning tuk-tuks in India into electric vehicles

Team Averera Accessibility Transcript

[Background music]

Upbeat futuristic music plays

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Opens with Jaynil.

Jaynil:

Tuk-tuks are turning to electric vehicles. See how we want to empower India to make the switch.

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Tuk-tuks are turning to electric vehicles

See how we want to empower India to make the switch

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Cuts to vehicle running on track before cutting to team members cheering around vehicle while holding up Indian flag

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Team Averera

Indian Institute of Technology - BHU

India

Jaynil:

We are Team Averera from the Indian Institue of Technology, BHU, India

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Cuts to team members talking in garage before cutting back to Jaynil

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Jaynil Sheth

Team Manager

Jaynil:

Team Averera cares about sustainability. That is the major reason why we participate in the competitions like Shell Eco-marathon. We need to find better and more sustainable ways of creating transport

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We need to find better, more sustainable ways of creating transport

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Cuts to three-way split of team members working on vehicle before cutting back to Jaynil

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Battery electric

Jaynil:

We decided to build a battery electric vehicle instead of the traditional IC engine because…

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Cuts to shots of vehicle battery

Jaynil voice-over:

… electric vehicles are more sustainable for the environment and…

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Industry is changing

Jaynil voice-over:

… the industry is changing towards building electric vehicles

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An opportunity to follow the major industrial practise and skills

Jaynil:

So it gives us an opportunity to follow the major industrial practices and skills…

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Cuts to Jaynil talking with team members in garage while working on vehicle

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Collaborate

Jaynil voice-over:

… and collaborate with the industrial companies and partners.

Jaynil:

So this is the reason we decided to build an electric vehicle and be a part of this change.

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Cuts back to Jaynil

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The air quality index the AQI of our city Varanasi is 282

Jaynil

The air quality index, the AQI index of our city where we live, Varanasi, is 282 and in 2022 this made the city the third most polluted city in India

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Third most polluted city in India

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Jaynil voice-over:

And this is the reason we also are focused on sustainability as a team.

Jaynil:

We are trying to create awareness among the residents of the city that the pollution levels are really high

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Reduce emissions

Jaynil voice-over:

We are trying our best to reduce the emissions as much as possible

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We created an awareness campaign

Jaynil voice-over:

As there are a lot of tuk-tuk drivers in the city, we created an awareness campaign

called Viridescent, which means becoming green…

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To convince the tuk-tuk drivers to switch their traditional vehicles into electric vehicles

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Briefly cuts to vehicle rolling on track before cutting back Jaynil.

Jaynil:

To convince the tuk-tuk driver to switch their traditional vehicles into electric vehicles

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The campaign was really effective

Jaynil:

The campaign was really effective…

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… as now a lot of the tuk-tuk drivers, at least in our university campus, have made the switch to electric vehicles and that has helped reduce the pollution levels of the nearby area to a significant extent.

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Helped reduce the pollution levels of the nearby area to a significant extent

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Jaynil voice-over:

And Major automotive industrial manufacturers are…

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Develop

Infrastructure

Jaynil:

… trying to develop the proper infrastructure, which means India would be able to support the electric vehicles becoming mainstream

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Support electric vehicles becoming mainstream

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Cuts to scrapbook transition, with cut-out of Jaynil holding trophy. Then cuts to team members high-fiving before cutting back to Jaynil

Jaynil:

Shell Eco-marathon is really important for our team because it provides us a global platform…

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Global platform

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Compete with the best engineering minds across the world

Jaynil voice-over:

… to compete with the best engineering minds across the world. And it provides us an opportunity to build the most energy efficient vehicle

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Sustainable practices are really important of the environment

Jaynil voice-over:

We think sustainable practices are really important for the environment, in order to make the future better

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Jaynil:

Visit our playlist for more stories from Shell Eco-marathon

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#ShellEcoMarathon

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