This 13-Year-Old Inventor From Haryana Created A Solar Bike

From solar powered airports to solar powered mosques, India has been taking solar energy seriously. However, there’s still an immense need for the adoption of solar technology, and sometimes the smallest achievements can have the most impact on a society. Take Haryana’s 13-year-old Avneet Kumar, for example. This young lad has created a solar bike that can travel up to 20km per hour. Moreover, the bright engineer in the making added features such as a charging port and an anti-sleep alarm.

When a boy creates an invention designed to not only help people but the planet as well, one’s faith is renewed in hopes for a sustainable future, especially with climate change deniers popping out of the woodworks on all sides.

Solar bikes are a great 101 use of solar technology and they have a myriad of applications, of which a huge chunk work to educate and serve those from lower income backgrounds. When IIT-B graduate Sushil pedalled across the entire North West of India on a solar bike, to better educate rural India about solar energy, he received a lot of interest in the technology. Nevertheless, many farmers he met considered the technology too modern, too complicated and too expensive. That’s why Avneet’s creation is of the utmost importance. If a 13-year-old can comprehend and create using solar energy he becomes an example to the nation. He becomes the best counter argument — if a young man in the eighth standard can utilise solar power, so can many others in India, they just need to embody the will to understand and the curiosity to create and innovate like Avnnet.

Moreover, the forethought put into Avneet’s solar bike does more than reinforce hope, it’s an invention with a legitimate function. If one looks at the end product his invention appears particularly well-suited for the disabled community. The bike has three wheels offering complete upright support and with solar aid the process of pedalling is significantly decreased. Given that many of the disabled community in India rely on stubborn and archaic wheel-chairs built out of old Hero cycles, Avneet’s bike design could most definitely ease their daily transportation struggle. In addition, even the lesser income elderly who often rely on cycles as transport, despite cycling being a painful and daily reality of their lives, could halve the effort it takes to commute with a solar bike.

Everyday news often features some awful tragedy or injustice hindering the world, so the days we can devote words to youth, a sustainable future and a beautiful young mind, life, even for just a moment, takes on a greater meaning.