
Hybrid vehicles designed by college students – Picture: Trong Nhan
On 1-3-2025, at Cao Thang Technical Faculty (Ho Chi Minh Metropolis), the competitors for designing mini automobile Racing 2025 was formally launched. That is the tenth yr of the competition held. This yr there are 100 groups from universities and schools within the South.
Along with the house group, Cao Thang Technical Faculty, the remaining groups are from sturdy colleges within the Southern area corresponding to Polytechnic College (Nationwide College of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis), Ho Chi Minh Metropolis College of Technical Training, Tra Vinh College, Van Lang College, Binh Duong College, Nguyen Tat Thanh College, Gia Dinh Faculty, Saigon Polytechnic Faculty …
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Thanh – Head of Mechanical Division, Cao Thang Technical Faculty – stated that this yr’s contest recorded a powerful innovation, when he requested college students to analysis and apply hybrid expertise, combining gasoline and electrical engines.
Hybrid vehicles are a contemporary improvement pattern of the car trade, saving gas, decreasing emissions and in the direction of sustainable improvement.
Pupil teams will design and manufacture mannequin vehicles with a minimal of fifty% of self -produced parts.

A hybrid mannequin has been deployed by college students – Picture: Trong Nhan
Technically, the automobile has a most measurement of 80 x 50 x 50 cm, makes use of a two -stroke petrol engine with a capability of twenty-two – 33 cm³, simulating the precept of lively operation of actual vehicles. The vehicles will compete on a 76m lengthy observe, designed particularly for the competitors.
From March 2025, the Organizing Committee will deploy sensible steerage seminars, serving to college students get used to the distant management expertise via the Wi-Fi-Web protocol.
On the similar time, the groups will probably be given a 26 cm 2 cm petrol engine and the required equipment to design the automobile.
The ultimate spherical came about on 24-5-2025 at Cao Thang Technical Faculty. Prize worth of as much as 150 million.
“Hybrid vehicles are a reasonably advanced discipline, as a result of college students should combine two varieties of engines into the identical restricted measurement automobile mannequin, whereas guaranteeing secure operation and power saving. Discovering the optimum resolution to mix two motivation sources whereas guaranteeing pace and effectivity are a big problem,” Mr. Thanh stated.

One other Hybrid automobile created by college students – Picture: Trong Nhan
In the meantime, Mr. Tran Thanh Dat – Normal Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Vehicle and Dynamic Gear – stated that via the method of designing, manufacturing and working mannequin vehicles, college students have the chance to coach mechanical abilities, embedded programming and hybrid expertise – an necessary pattern in fashionable vehicle trade.
In keeping with him, thereby college students will develop inventive pondering, downside fixing abilities when confronted with sensible technical challenges, in addition to teamwork abilities, time administration and tasks … important for sensible work later.
The competitors continues to be receiving the registration software from the coed groups throughout the nation.