Team ETA (Established in 2015)

Faculty Advisor: Prof. A.K. Gangrade

Team Eta is a student team that participates annually in the Shell Eco-Marathon. Shell Eco-marathon is one of the world’s leading energy efficiency competition programmes. Students are challenged to design, build and test energy-efficient cars, pushing the boundaries of what is technically possible. Students take their designs to the track in the Mileage Challenge to see which vehicle can compete to go the farthest on the least amount of fuel. 

We are the first student team in India to manufacture a carbon fiber monocoque vehicle body. Our 2015 prototype Arya had achieved a mileage of 153 kmpl and were ranked 5th in Asia and 1st in India. We are currently the best team in the gasoline category in India. 

For more information visit : www.teameta.in

Red Shift Racing’s (Established in 2009)

Faculty Advisor: Prof. S.S Bhusnoor

Started in 2009, Red Shift Racing’s key motive is to compete with top teams all over the globe in an SAE organized Baja event. Red Shift Racing has since, come a long way from a hobby idea to a semi-professional project par excellence. Participated in SAE BAJA Auburn event held at USA in the year 2012 and SAE BAJA Indore Event held at INDORE in 2013. Since then, Team RedShift Racing India has participated in 6 national and 2 International competitions with the most recent participation in BAJA SAE Oregon, USA in May 2018. The team finished with an overall rank of 11^th amongst 400 participating teams at BAJA SAE Indore 2017 which was the team’s best ever performance so far.

For more information visit website : www.redshift-racing.in

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redshiftracing.kjsce/

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Orion Racing India (Established in 2006)

Faculty Adviser: Dr. Manoj Janardan Pawar

In 2006, a bunch of amateur yet ambitious engineering students wants to get the most out of their engineering experience, rolled up their sleeves and took to the workshop with passion in their hearts, tools in their hands and a battered auto rickshaw engine. Thus, Orion Racing India the official formula student team of K.J Somaiya College of Engineering was born. Budding engineering students from various streams develop, design and manufacture a formula style car to take part in National and International Design Competitions in Germany, Italy and Hungary.

Orion Racing India is the first Formula Student team in India to successfully build an Aerospace grade Carbon Fibre Monocoque chassis for their latest combustion prototype Bellatrix. With the lightweight body and the self-tuned KTM Duke 390 engine, Bellatrix secured an overall 4^th position in Statics at FS East 2018, Hungary. The team also secured an all-time high score of 110/150 in the design event and was selected in the Business Plan Presentation finals. In the past, the team has secured podium finishes in Formula Student Germany in the Cost Event as well.

The team has been crowned as the National Champion thrice in the combustion category. The first female formula student driver in India won a 3rd place in the acceleration event for the team in 2018. In Formula Bharat 2018, the team also secured a first position in Electric concept challenge as well. Taking up on the challenge Orion Racing India has decided to make its transition from a combustion to an electric vehicle for this year: where-in they are designing, fabricating and validating the vehicle powered by an electric powertrain. The team participated in Formula Student Germany 2019 competition with their first Electric Car.

For more information:

www.orion-racing.com

www.facebook.com/orionracing

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