MotoManipal, electric superbike team of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), has secured the first place in an electric bike design competition organised online by Mechatron Motors. Eight national level engineering college teams took part in the competition. Team members comprising Supreet Kulkarni, Sathvik Bhat, Sarthak Bhadkamkar, and others worked on designing the bike and reports for about three months. The team was declared the overall winners in the competition. It also emerged victorious in the best business plan category, Aryan Singh, team leader and a third year Mechanical Engineering student at Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT).

MotoManipal were previously winners at the Asian E-Bike Challenge in 2019 and winners in Season 1 and Season 2 of the National Online E-Bike Design Challenge’and won the third place in Season 3. The same team will compete in the MotoStudent Competition at the Kari Motor Speedway at Coimbatore in October later this year. It has registered for the MotoStudent International Competition, at Aragon, Spain, in 2023, the release said.