{"id":38551,"date":"2018-07-25T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/?p=38551"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:39:52","slug":"tum-hyperloop-team-races-away-from-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/en\/38551\/tum-hyperloop-team-races-away-from-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"TUM Hyperloop team races away from the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WARR Hyperloop team's third capsule raced through the test tube on the SpaceX campus in Los Angeles at 467 kilometers per hour. The students from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) remain undefeated in the third Hyperloop Pod competition in Los Angeles and hold the speed record for the Hyperloop prototype. <\/strong><\/p>\n

SpaceX founder Elon Musk had the \u201cHyperloop Pod Competition\u201d<\/a> Launched in 2015, the Hyperloop is a transportation system concept in which a high-speed train would travel at nearly the speed of sound in a partially vacuumed tube. Student teams from around the world are invited to submit their concepts for the so-called pod\u2014the cabin capsule that would transport passengers through the tube.<\/p>\n

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TUM students with Elon Musk. (Image: WARR Hyperloop Team)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the first competition, which took place in January 2017, two main prizes were awarded: One main prize for the fastest pod, which the WARR Hyperloop Team of the Technical University of Munich won<\/a>, and a grand prize for the best overall concept, which went to TU Delft. In the second competition, only speed counted. Here too, the students left their competition behind<\/a>: They reached 324 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n

Munich team doubles speed and wins<\/h3>\n

The third competition was again about speed, but only prototypes with their own propulsion were allowed. 18 teams were invited to the third competition in Los Angeles to test their capsules in the tube specially built for the competition on the SpaceX site.<\/p>\n

Only three teams made it to the finals after the rigorous technical preliminary tests. In addition to the WARR Hyperloop team from TU Munich, these were Delft Hyperloop (TU Delft) and EPFLoop (ETH Lausanne). The team from ETH Zurich failed to qualify for the finals in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n

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