Speaking on the project, Dr P Giridhar Kini, Associate Director, Manipal University said, "We are extremely happy to see how our students have combined their passion for green energy, through the launch of SERVe.

Industry-academia collaboration is the key to foster innovation among the student community. Hence, working with corporates like Tata Power Solar helped our students get technical support and knowledge transfer. The team looks forward to working with more companies for future projects and to continue to nurture student-level innovation."

"We are pleased to be part this project driven by a talented student-team. This project epitomises Tata Power Solar's belief that fostering innovation is key for the proliferation of solar energy.

"We not only encourage innovation within our organisation but also propagate universities participation for this cause, since they can play an important role in driving innovation in partnership with the industry. The solar car is one of many ventures which we have supported, and we firmly believe India's students will act as a key contributor in the progress of our solar industry." said Ashish Khanna, ED & CEO, Tata Power Solar.

The core members of the student design team SolarMobil, include: Anudeep Reddy, Jeet Bannerjee, Siva Bhushan Reddy, Anjan Kumar, Varun Gupta, Rohan Sahdev, Madhav Lakhotia, Samay Goenka, Sulekh.P, Akshat Singh, Amol Grover and Nikhil Gumidelli.

SolarMobil Manipal is a team of students from various branches of Manipal Institute of Technology. The team's aim is to successfully design, test and build a vehicle powered solely by solar energy, and to showcase it's car across world.
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