This is a tale of an auto maker from the land of blue hills, green valleys and red rivers. Kanak Gogoi is just 12th passed, but his intellect is comparable with those from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).This 47-year-old entrepreneur from Guwahati, Assam has spent his hard-earned Rs 1.5 Crore in the past 13 years to design air-powered car, gravity-operated bicycle and many more, but steadfastly refuses to commercialise any of them.
Techwhiz Kanak Gogoi designed a handglider, an aeroboat, a water cycle, an amphibian boat and the much talked-about TRYGO-X, a two-seater car assembled from motor parts of obsolete vehicles. His latest innovation boasts a method to generate electricity by moving vehicles over a rubble strip or speed breaker. The mechanism of the speedbreaker is based on the principle of conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy, which in turn can be used to generate electricity. His latest innovation has been certified by the department of design of IIT Guwahati. Moreover, IIT Guwahati has already developed the prototype of Gogoi’s aeroboat that can travel on just four inches of water.
Among his innovations, there is also a solar hybrid car, whose 320 watt battery is charged by solar panels and is powered by a 100cc engine. There is one more car that Gogoi has build from integration of motorcycle and Maruti 800 engines. This car can run on air energy powered by a hand glider and can reach a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
In spite such mind-blowing innovations, Kanak Gogoi is not recognized for his work by the state government. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offered him to build a fully furnished laboratory in Guwahati. The Chief Minister of Assam had granted him about 1.6 acres of land in 2007, but the file is still lying untouched at the local administrative office till date.
In fact, it is the National Innovation Foundation, headed by noted scientist Raghunath A Mashelkar that applied for a patent on Gogoi's behalf for his gravity operated cycle, which converts gravitational force released by pedaling of the cycle into kinetic energy.
Kanak Gogoi is recently honoured by the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) with the National Innovation Award by the President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil for his achievements.
Carazoo.com is covering the story of Kanak Gogoi. But there are more techwhizs like him in India whose innovative ideas need to be recognized.
Carazoo.com salutes all of them and wishes them luck.
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