While unveiling the car to journalists, the
Head of Department, Dr. Mohammed
Dauda, said the car is environment
friendly.
Dr. Dauda, who doubles as the Dean,
Faculty of Engineering, also said that the
car would participate in this year's 'Shell
Eco Marathon Competition'.
"In addition to federal government's
automotive policy, I must say that the
reason we started this (manufacturing of
the car) came from Shell Petroleum
Development Company of Nigeria
Limited. They invited ABU to participate in what they call Shell Eco Marathon
Competition. The car should be one that
consumes little fuel but goes long
distances. This competition is held in
America, Europe and Asia and we are
participating in the European one in
Netherlands in May this year. All
materials used for this car were sourced
locally," Dr. Dauda said.
He added: "Though, there are things that
we did not fabricate ourselves, you will be
surprised that some of the components
like the electrical, we just looked at an old
computer system and then adopted some
of the components that were useful to us.
So, this is one example of what we did,
which is recycling, otherwise, I will say
100 per cent of the things we used were
produced here in Zaria". Daily Trust
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