Maqina is Proud

November 19, 2008

After a tough search and intensive activity around sponsoring. Maqina is proud to announce that we have got our two first sponsors. One of the sponsors is “Stud bv”.

 They are a job agency that operate in Delft. They provide many students from the TUDelft with jobs and are also active in sponsoring great initiatives like the one we are working on.

 Our second sponsor is active in the banking world. We are proud to say that we are being sponsored by ING Netherlands. They are a main sponsor for our project. They were highly interested in our approach for tackling the project both from the business aspect aswell as the technical aspect.

 Lately, our team has grown and many interesting students have joined. Highly motivated and they already see a future with the development our project is undergoing.

There is a event planned soon, in which we will have a Delft TukTuk party in which there will be drinks, music and ofcourse lots of fun!

You will hear more about it when the date is fixed!

 I will leave it at this for now. More updated information will follow in the upcoming posts with new photos of the team and our recent activities!

 Regards,

Peyoush Datta

Team Leader

Feedback Round 1

September 9, 2008

After a long summer break its to get you all up-to-date with our progress! The team enjoyed their summer holidays and at the same time did some research regarding the project.

Maqina acquired some interesting documents and information that directly links the feasability to the various options that we have looked at.

Since we did not fully integrate the technical solutions in our feedback presentation we have to suffice with the orange light. It will turn green in no time! We did however get rewarded with the most Tuks!

Another great accomplishment is the fact that we have managed to integrate various aspects into the various engineering studies. We are looking forwards to have a business student from another university to join the team and work their magic regarding the business model.

We are happy to announce that we have another team member to join the technical team. He has alot of experience concerning hybrid solutions, as it is his hobby. He rebuilt his own scooter so that it could run on alcohol! Not exactly a cheaper solution (since alcohol is reasonably expensive), but a great accomplishment!

The team itself is running on high revs and is in a weeks time going to switch over to the next gear!

Team Maqina is looking forward to the workshop weekend planned on the 19th of September.

 We will keep you up-to-date with all future developments! 

Update!

July 19, 2008

MAQiNA is still working ever hard on the project and doing a lot of market research and talking to various institutions in India and The Netherlands.

In the mean time we have recruited some very interesting members into our team and hope they will provide some useful regarding the possible solutions that will be researched.

Two of the team members will be traveling to India in the following weeks. Purpose of the visit is to gather information from professionals in the field we are investigating. A meeting is planned with Teri- The Energy and Resources Institute (slogan-Towards global sustainable development). You can visit their website at www.teriin.org.

We will keep you up-to-date with new findings and photos of the rickshaws we will travel with in India!

We have started approaching potential sponsors and hope to get answers from them soon.

Regards,

Peyoush Datta