Sunyani Technical University (STU) as part of the school’s long-term plans towards contributing to the nation’s industrialization agenda is reportedly set to manufacture and assemble electronic vehicles by 2030.
As such, the school is establishing an E-Vehicle Technologies Centre with an ultra-modern laboratory facility that would serve as a training hub for the engineering students in the school and the centre for the electric car’s manufacture and accessories.
Confirming the news of the school’s vision and contribution to the national industrialization agenda was Dr Samuel Wiafe, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at STU.
Speaking to the students of the faculty during a training workshop under the theme “Demystifying the Technologies behind electronic vehicles,” Dr Wiafe shared the news with them as part of arrangements by the faculty’s leadership to ensure that the engineering students are abreast with, and how they could support the technology
The workshop training was, however, organized with the support of Solar Taxi Limited, a local firm, which specializes in assembling and distributing electronic motor-bikes, tricycles and vehicles.
“France and the United Kingdom are looking to ban the sale of gas and diesel-powered vehicles from 2023. China, the largest automotive market in the world has publicly started charting a plan for an all-out ban on vehicles powered by internal combustion engines,” Dr Wiafe said.
“This is why the STU has taken the leading role to ensure that this dream is realised as soon as possible.”
Adding up was Dr Rajalingam Sakthivelsamy, the Head of Electrical and Electronics Department of STU. He noted that the school in line with his department envisages producing its first electric vehicle by 2030.
In light of this, he indicated that the university had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Solar Taxi Limited and Ghana- EVAFRICA, in a joint initiative by Skill Shark Edutech in India to achieve this vision.
Dr Sakthivelsamy said engineering students were currently working on two projects that sought to convert conventional wheelers to electric wheelers, whiles two of the students won this year’s edition of “ECSTASY 21”, an international technical symposium organized by Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, India.
