Team AVERERA’s Alterno V4.0 - A Hyper Energy-Efficient Electric Prototype Vehicle for Shell Eco-Marathon 2021-01-0792

Team AVERERA is a group of automobile enthusiast students from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). The team works under the Center for Energy and Resources development. The team designs and develops energy-efficient vehicle prototypes and takes part in Shell Eco-marathon Asia each year. The competition demands student teams to design and build a prototype vehicle with a focus to achieve maximum energy efficiency. After 3 successful attempts in the competition since 2015, the team built a completely redesigned fourth version named Alterno V4.0 shown in Figure 1. The vehicle represented IIT (BHU) and India in the 2018 and 2019 chapters of the event. The vehicle clocked highest energy efficiency of 465.1 km/kWh in the 2019 chapter of Shell Eco-marathon Asia held at Sepang International F1 Circuit, Malaysia and stood 2nd in the event. The vehicle won the 2019 Shell Eco-marathon Asia Vehicle Design Award for its revolutionary design, 2019 Shell Eco-marathon India Technical Innovation Award and 2018 Shell Eco-marathon India Safety Award.