Pathetic report, eh? So what is your idea of innovation? Did you want these guys to invent the entire automobile concept from scratch - build their own combustion engine, their own braking systems, their own gears, everything? Would you have them attempt to recreate 100 years of automobile innovation in a 4 yr stint at college? Is that reasonable or ridiculous?
That would not be innovation - that would be duplication and a waste of resources. Or as the idiom goes, that would be reinventing the wheel.
Innovation is all about imaginative reworking of the existing to create possibilities that are themselves new. The components that these guys have used may be existing - but 180 km mileage is new. That deserves respect.
