Automotive Engineering Student Builds Electric Sports Car at Home

It's called the Hainan Xiaohuohua; Hainan being the province and Xiaohuohua being best translated as 'Young(ster) Flower'. It's painted in red and and from what we can see, the whole body is curvy; which harkens to the futuristic look of the car.

Chen, who is an automotive engineering student at the South China Agricultural University, took it up as a project and sketched out the designs of the car. He plans to drop out and concentrate on designing such cars. It took him just above a year and about $4740 to design and build it.

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Well, his father helped with the materials as he owns a company which makes fibre-reinforced plastics (FRB) and this is what the car is made of. Clearly there are flaws in the way the car look; the gap between the wheel and wheel arches is alarmingly rudimentary and clearly the interior basic, but Chen has managed to give it scissor doors, which form a panel from the wheel arch to the B-pillar and that is what makes this design extremely interesting.

Hainan Electric Car

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Chen has done the moulding and the modelling himself and the rest of the parts were bought off the internet. In fact even the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) platform it's based on was purchased online. There are no details out yet, but top speed is 30km/h and it's more like a sheep in wolves clothing. It's a great effort from someone who's just a student and the passion shows. But well, he's set to raise the bar soon and we'll know more about it soon.

Hainan Electric Car

^{Source: CarNewsChina}