HPVC India

Human-powered transport is often the only type available in underdeveloped or inaccessible parts of the world, and if well designed, can be an increasingly viable form of sustainable transportation.

ASME's international Human Powered Vehicle Challenge (HPVC) provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate the application of sound engineering design principles in the development of sustainable and practical transportation alternatives. In the HPVC, students work in teams to design and build efficient, highly engineered vehicles for everyday use—from commuting to work, to carrying goods to market.

India is a developing country with a big untapped market for the Human Powered Vehicles, considering the Indian economy and infrastructure. Backed with a huge base of technically competent students and engineers HPVC India can be the major step in promotion of the HPV concept in India and could well become an irremovable part of India’s transport system. The competition’s aim is to provide an alternate, reliable and feasible mode of human powered transportation for daily use.

Human powered vehicle is, as the name suggests, a vehicle driven by human muscle power. With the advent of modern technology, machines have been developed to enhance human power and then enforce it. Since the ancient ages, these vehicles have been popular due to their lower cost and as a means for maintaining physical fitness. But now more than ever, these vehicles are the need of the hour for an entirely new reason, environmental and ecological preservation.

That’s exactly what HPVC aims to do, to bring these vehicles back into focus. Improving the power transfer efficiency and improvising the aerodynamics, teams have to arrive at an optimal design that uses less muscle power to traverse longer distances. So get ready to shatter your limitations and inhibitions, challenge your buddies and ultimately, achieve glory!

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