Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Background

The visit made on October 5. 2022. The visit includes:

• – Introductions and Project Overview
• – Start-ups & Lab Visits

Introductions and Project Overview

The Participants of the Discussion are:

• – Nauman Ahmad Zaffar, Director, National Incubation Center Lahore / Professor, Electrical Engineering, School of Science & Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS.
• – Dr. Naveed Arshad, Associate Professor, School of Science & Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS.
• – Mirza Abdul Majid, Deputy Manager, Centre for Business and Society (CBS), LUMS.

https://www.lums.edu.pk/ Following are the key minutes of the discussion. LUMS is currently working with 6 industrial partners to drive the EV technology on roads. The partners are 1. BarqBox The company supplies the Li-Ion Battery packs. 2. SolDrive The company is taking care of the Driver circuit for Induction motor. 3. Sazgar The sazgar group taking care of hardware side 3-wheeler rikshaw design and manufacturing. 4. GFC fan Local motor production facility partner. 5. Microtech Covering the Drivers/ Algorithms. 6. Korean Organization Korean EV technology transfer to LUMS. The focus of the research is on the charging time and the cost of the EV technology. The swapable battery concept is ready to implement. The software side works includes vehicle, battery, analytics. LUMS teams also contributed inn the EV policy and business model. The configuration of Ev is also discussed including:

• – Size parameters
• – Type of motor
• – Coupling mechanism
• – Size of the battery
• – Overall weight of the vehicle.

A small course also offered in LUMS on 2-wheeler case study that includes the study of the design block, the parameters calculation, and the comparison with the existing 2-wheeler performance. The Intellectual Property (IP) against the technology development also discussed.