Students of Faculty of Engineering, University of
Benin, called Team UNIBEN, broke grounds in an
international competition - Shell Eco Marathon in
Europe and South Africa in Oct. 2014 and won a
distinguishing award for 'most innovative vehicle
design' throughout Africa with its made in Nigeria
car called Ecocruise. Continue...
Shell Eco Marathon is a global competition that
challanges students to build, test and drive fuel
efficient vehicles. In other words, all the cars built
are set to race and the vehicle that goes the
farthest on the least amount of fuel automatically
wins.
Team UNIBEN has previously also broken a record
when they attended the Shell eco-marathon
Europe in may 2014 with its first made in Nigeria
car Tuketuke, making it the first team from Sub
Saharan Africa to participate in the Shell eco-
marathon. These two cars were handmade by
these students alone in the workshop.
Tuketuke has innovative features like automatic
windscreen wiper, button actuated gears,
fingerprint access, ankara interior and fibreglass
body. Both cars won all 10 technical and safety
inspections, which I might add, are world standard,
that qualified them to race on the track.
They are currently taking yet another challenge to
build two cars that will participate in another shell
eco-marathon in the Netherlands next year.
Students involved include: Osas Omijie, Festus
ibidapo, adekola adeyemi, abdulmalik tajliad, Daniel
okwoka, justice Oyemike, emmanuel Ajari,
eloghosa iyamu, James itoro, Jennifer orji, Anne
monye, Michael olukoya,and Victor adegboye, 13
students in total supervised by Professor Akii
Ibhadode (Winner, NLNG Award for Science,
2010).
You can follow their complete story by liking their
page on Facebook www.facebook.com/eco-
tuketuke.
