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[Watch] Odisha Youth Makes Sports Car From Scrap, Electric Vehicle Next On Cards

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: A commerce graduate from Odisha’s Cuttack city, Sushant Rout,  is setting DIY goals on the internet. Putting his innovative mind to the best use, Rout has developed a sports car from the discarded engine of a two-wheeler and other scrap materials.

Surprisingly, he claims to have not undertaken any formal technical training for the same. His instincts, ideas and a little support from Youtube videos—that’s it!—helped him shape up the car.

A resident of Pratap Nagar in Cuttack, Rout had graduated from BJM College. Ever since his childhood, he had been interested in vehicles and their spare parts. “Machines attract my attention. I love to explore machines by opening them and finding out for myself how they work. When I was a teenager, I would often open the mixture grinder, fans, television sets, among other electronic devices to understand how they work and how the spare parts look,” he said.

For the love of machines and innovation, he came up with a YouTube channel of his own—‘Odisha Unboxer’ in 2019—in which he uploads various videos of transforming cardboard pieces and other scrap spare parts into electric vehicles, tiny remote control cars, among others. It took him about six months to make the sports car, which he proudly drives in the field adjacent to his house.

“There’s a small room on the roof of my house. That’s my workshop. When I am working on any project, I spend all my days and nights in that room,” he said.

Rout is a regular visitor to the junkyards in and around Cuttack. “I get all the spare parts from the junkyards. My father had an old Honda Unicorn two-wheeler, which he was planning to sell. I requested him not to sell the vehicle and took it from him. From this two-wheeler, I got the engine for my sports car,” he said.

In the past, he had also made an electric vehicle for the physically challenged. The youth now wants to focus on electric vehicles only.

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