Title: Session #7 - DTU Supermileage

Duration: 1:49 minutes

Description: 

Members of the DTU Supermileage Team describe their experience of creating their entry for Pitch the Future.

Session #7 - DTU Supermileage Transcript

[Background music plays]

Bright, uplifting instrumental music.

[Video footage]

Six team members on a video call, speaking parts of a sentence in sequence, against an animated background of yellow and aqua turning gears.

Team members

Hi. We are Team DTU Supermileage.

[Video footage]

Split screen of all six team members, one young woman and five young men, dressed casually, smiling and waving. 

[Animated sequence]

Aqua background, with wavy dotted lines moving. Words appear in yellow and white.

[Text on screen]

Pitch the Future, decarbonizing road freight transport with Shell lubricants. Team DTU Supermileage, India.

[Video footage]

The six team members appear on screen, with team member 1 speaking. As he speaks, scenes showing team members in their workshop are shown. Several team members gather around a car chassis, under construction, on the workshop floor. A wide angle shot shows the same car chassis and another one, shiny black and low-slung, with several team members standing nearby holding a discussion. 

Team member 1

We are a collegiate research team of young car enthusiasts from Delhi Technological University that aims to design and build a vehicle with high mileage.

[Video footage]

A posed team photo shows, with team members standing and sitting around a prototype car, which is shiny black and bears the Shell logo. An older woman wearing a white shirt with the Shell logo stands in the centre of the group. Most of the team members are dressed in black T-shirts with the Shell logo on the sleeve, and wearing red lanyards. The camera pulls back, revealing more of the photo. Team member 2 appears on screen, then all six team members. A scene of many people gathered, sitting on the steps of a building, while four young men stand on a raised platform in front of them speaking to the group. Return to the split screen with six team members.

Team member 2

What is interesting about our team is that we consider ourselves as a team of all-rounders. Not only do we focus on our academic ventures, but we also hang out, play football, go for lunches. In fact, we don't even call ourselves a team. We think of ourselves as a family.

[Video footage]

Footage from the team pitch video plays. A vignette shows team members gathered around a prototype car, some wearing red driving suits and carrying helmets. Text in the foreground reads DTU Supermileage is all set. The vignette expands, revealing more of the scene. A graphical image of a yellow car is shown, with text in the foreground reading, for Pitch the Future. Some workshop equipment is shown, with text in the foreground reading, decarbonizing road freight transport. Team member 3 appears on screen.

Team member 3

So, our idea for Pitch the Future is basically, based on three aspects. One is optimizing supply chain. Second is reduction in carbon emissions from vehicles, and third is utilisation of limited carbon from exhaust manifold of vehicles.

[Video footage]

Team member 1 appears on screen. As he speaks, scenes of team members working are shown. A young man sitting in a living room working on a laptop. Another young man sitting at a desk taking notes as he looks at his laptop. A third young man sitting at a small table typing on a laptop. Team member 1 again appears on screen.

Team member 1

The biggest challenge that we faced was remote working. Even with the communication apps and collaboration tools, a digital connection was not the same as a personal one.

[Text on screen]

What has your team learned?

[Video footage]

Team member 2 appears on screen. As he speaks, scenes of other team members working show. A young woman sits at a server console. A young man looks at a screen showing a drawing of a car. Another young man works on a laptop at a dining table. Team member 2 again appears on the screen. Cut to the split screen showing six team members.

Team member 2

The one thing that we learned from our experience with Pitch the Future was not only to look at the technological aspects, but to also address the real-world problems, something that we hadn’t really focused on before.

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Why are you proud of your team?

[Video footage]

Split screen showing six team members, with team member 1 speaking. Cut to team member 1 alone, then back to all six.

Team member 1

Despite the corona pandemic that is going on in the world right now, we were able to overcome all the obstacles. That's what we are most proud of.

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Three words you think best describe Pitch the Future?

[Video footage]

Team member 3 appears on screen. As he speaks, the screen splits to show all six team members. They smile and wave.

Team member 3

Thought-provoking, didactic and insightful.

[Audio]

Shell jingle plays.

[Graphic]

Shell logo centred on a background of animated turning gears.

[Text displays]

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