A curated exhibition of updates, milestones and moments from the workshop — documenting how a University of Cape Town-led electric tuk-tuk is being designed, built and tested by academics, technical staff and students together.
Enter the collectionExhibits are grouped by room rather than by strict chronology. Featured pieces mark the larger project milestones; smaller entries document the daily engineering work that surrounds them.
The second Tukzie prototype leaves the workshop and enters its first structured on-road evaluation. Field testing is the transition point where design assumptions meet real conditions — from cargo loads and gradient response to the small mechanical noises that only appear once the vehicle is moving.
Enter the exhibitObservations from the current battery evaluation cycle — capacity, thermal behaviour and swap-cycle wear, catalogued alongside the test rig they were measured on.
Read the notesThe team is exploring opportunities to bring Tukzie off-campus to engineering showcases and public events. Confirmed dates and details will be added here once they're locked in.
Ways to get involvedEstablishing the reference geometry from which every subsystem is measured. Documented alongside the additive-manufacturing work on body panels.
Related workstreamA shared workstream between programme steering and embedded systems, connecting the physical prototype to a running simulation model that mirrors it.
Related workstreamThe Tukzie roster is a mix of academic supervisors and student engineers — the workshop remains an open room. Contributions are documented and credited.
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Tukzie is a live UCT engineering programme, not a finished product. The archive grows as each subsystem moves from problem statement to prototype to test.
What sustainable, locally serviceable urban mobility should actually look like — asked out loud, in a workshop.
Vehicle architecture, energy strategy and safety framing take shape as parallel workstreams.
Structural, electrical and control subsystems come together on the platform for the first time.
Prototype v2 has entered structured field evaluation. Findings return to the workshop and shape the next revision.
Move into the research programme to see the workstreams behind these exhibits — or step into Get Involved to contribute to the next entry in the archive.