The motor whirrs as MIT undergraduates gather around their electric car, running some final tests in preparation for racing it at a competition in a few days.

One student sits in the driver’s seat, squeezed between steel tubes and a steering wheel that looks like a glorified Xbox controller, another hunches over a laptop, and another tinkers at a wall full of toolboxes. “We started designing this last July,” says Megan Gupta-She ’25, president of the MIT Motorsports Team. Students designed and welded the frame, cut carbon fiber panels, built batteries from scratch, and test-drove the finished vehicle, all during a single school year. “You’d never see a car company build something this quickly,” she observes. “It’s kind of crazy they let us do this.”

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