Two friends make an electric car by hand to participate in the `Gulf Challenge`

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">ArabiaWeather.com-</span> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Two friends studying mechanical engineering at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi managed to devise <strong>a car</strong> that runs on <strong>electricity</strong> in manual ways. This is in preparation for the competitions related to these innovations in the UAE.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Students Adetonji Alabai (30 years old) and Thomas Eric (25 years old) completed <strong>the car</strong> through manual labor in their free time, as they combined several engineering disciplines during its manufacture to reach its final form.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">And &quot;Alabai&quot; stated that they worked on developing <strong>the car</strong> , which is characterized by a lighter weight and greater capacity, in order to compete in the Gulf Energy and Electric Car Challenge competitions for the year 2016, according to &quot;ae24&quot;.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>