MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641017980 A) filed by Srm Institute Of Science And Technology; and Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 18, for 'design and fabrication of plug in hybrid electric vechicle (electrical system).'

Inventor(s) include Dr. N. Manikandan; Mr. Swaminathan R; Mr. Arivazhagan K; Mr. Santhosh Kumar R; Mr. Mullaiventhan S; Dr. S. D. Kumar; Dr. A. Mathivanan; Dr. V. M. Jothiprakash; Dr. Vigneshwaran S; and Mr. K. Vinoth Kumar.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "We are worried about how much more energy people are using around the world. India uses more oil than any other country except the US and China. We get 80% of the oil we need by buying it from other countries. India derives most of its crude oil from the Middle East, just like most other countries do. Saudi Arabia and Iraq are the main sources. India's oil imports have gone up from about 65 million tones to approximately 180 million tons in the last ten years. The cost of importing crude oil is 177.5 billion USD, which is 51% of the overall cost of imports. There are already concerns with the Indian economy and the need for energy. This makes us desire to move to energy sources that are renewable. Other countries are also trying to find other ways to get oil. We can save energy in a lot of different ways. We are mostly focused on the car industry because that is where oil is used the most. Three-fourths of the people in India need gasoline to get through the day. So, utilizing electric cars will lower the need for oil, which is rising. We thought that our electric vehicle should be shaped like a bike, so we turned an old bike that we weren't using into an electric bike. We employ a BLDC motor instead of a combustion engine in the old bike that we don't use anymore. This cuts down on emissions and costs less to run than combustion engines. The main source of energy for these bikes is chemical energy. We get our power from lead-acid batteries. People who work in banks, schools, or offices and spend less than three hours a day traveling can use an electric bike with a battery that only needs to be charged once and uses less than one unit of electricity."

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