{"id":43203,"date":"2025-07-18T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/?post_type=story&p=43203"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:46:14","slug":"from-solar-cars-to-startups-how-aman-sanghi-is-building-the-future-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/cover-story\/from-solar-cars-to-startups-how-aman-sanghi-is-building-the-future-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"From Solar Cars to Startups: How Aman Sanghi is building the future from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"

(July 18, 2025)<\/strong> Back in 2021, when Aman Sanghi along with a few like-minded students from the University of Wisconsin \u2014 Madison<\/a> set out on an ambitious goal to design and build a solar-powered race car from the ground up \u2014 the only tool they had was the determination to succeed.<\/p>\n

With no prior experience, they started from the scratch. Two years and a mountain of challenges later, the team led by Aman did the unthinkable \u2014 they rolled out their first minimum viable product, a solar car, which even passed the technical scrutiny for the first time in team history, completing 92 laps \u2014 230 miles at the Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix in Topeka, Kansas in 2023.<\/p>\n

“That effort earned us the Rookie of the Year award, a recognition given to the only first-year team with a fully original car,” smiles Aman, in a chat with Global Indian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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