"A hybrid propeller driven motorcycle…blending different technologies together,” has been designed and built by 20-year-old Ruzbeh Master, a student of automobile engineering in eight months, notes a certificate received by the student of Surat’s Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering and Technology from the Limca Book of Records. The certificate notes that the nine ft long, two ft high first-of-its-kind concept bike runs on both electric battery and panel and has "a patented multilink suspension system and a four-speed front and reverse drive system.”
Ruzbeh Master and his hybrid bike
"Biking makes me free,” said the student to Parsiana on July 21, 2017, adding that talking about biking is what he is most fond of. Explaining details around "hybrid,” Master states that when the bike starts initially it runs on the electric energy stored in the engine and after a speed of 40kms/hr it switches over to petrol. While the engine is running, it can charge the battery also by generating reverse current. The vehicle runs for 10 km after each charge and while on petrol, yields 40 km per liter.
Revealing his additional "crazy techno guy work,” Master states that he is, along with his studies, working on the concept design of a "two door four-seater car.” The project revolves round a "twin engine all wheel drive system which enables the driver to obtain the power with the help of two engines resulting in higher efficiency, and better torque output.”
Master says he gets his inspiration for things mechanical from his engineer father Gav, a technical instructor in an engineering college in Surat. Community historian Marzban Giara brought Master’s achievements to the notice of Parsiana, with clippings of news stories about him from media in Gujarat.