It will help me afford the education I need firstly. Cost is always the biggest barrier to just about any specialised technical field, and working on vehicles is a field that I want to enter despite the barrier of entry. More specifically, I wish to build and design performance vehicle vehicles—I like the idea of making things go fast. But not simply going fast, I want to see things perform to their absolute best. The most efficient motors, the most aerodynamic vehicles, the most aesthetically pleasing vehicles, I want to build all of them. There is a school in Texas called the Tuner School, hosted by Hennessy Performance, some of the most famous tuners in the world. I want to go there and take their program and become a tuner myself, and I want to build performance vehicle. With the proliferation of EVs and mass electrification of many parts of the world, performance EVs are a niche waiting to be filled. The sports cars and the supercars of tomorrow are waiting to be built and I want to be one of the people who builds them. The scholarship can help me be one of the people who get the chance to design these vehicles, such as the Audi e-tron GT.  I want to find ways to make these quick vehicles even quicker, these fast vehicles even faster. Ways to maximise battery efficiency or motor performance are also keeping them competitive with their ICE counterparts.  The same philosophy extends to hybrid vehicles, especially the way they are treated in modern sports and supercars. Companies will throw a battery pack in a motor in a car that only gives it an extra 30 miles of range, not realising that they are missing out on so much performance just from the electric drive train alone. Whether it’s in hybrid vehicles or fully electric vehicles, I want to fill this gap and being able to afford to go to a school dedicated to building performance vehicles will help me do just that. And once this niche is more developed, the technology can trickle down to even the most simple of commuter cars, and everyone with an electric vehicle can have more efficient batteries, more powerful motors, and better drivability. Just like with traditional cars and how the technology in the highest performance vehicles trickles down to the lower end vehicles, the same can be said of electric vehicles. That’s a gap I wish to feel and that’s a gap that this scholarship can help fill.