Electrek (Seth and myself) are in Hawthorne today for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition where teams of engineers and students are going to try to break some speed records with prototype pods of this new mode of transportation.
We are going to bring you as much as possible through our social media platforms and this post is going to be the hub for the event.
In order to accelerate the development of functional prototypes and encourage student innovation, SpaceX announced the Hyperloop Pod Competition back in 2015. The goal is to challenge university teams to design and build the best transport Pod.
The first two competitions were held in January and August 2017.
This year, many teams are coming back with more advanced pod designs and prototype to impress Elon Musk and the Tesla and SpaceX engineers behind the project.
We don’t exactly how the day is going to play out, but we are going to post the interesting things that we see throughout the day on our Twitter and Instagram accounts. We will also try to livestream some of the most interresting parts of the competition on our Youtube Channel so subscribe now to know when it begins.
Refresh for updates below starting at 11AM Pacific time:
At the mothership for hyperloop contest pic.twitter.com/RB5nUBbP56
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) July 22, 2018
We are here at the #SpaceXHyperloopCompetition pic.twitter.com/ll9GBugGzB
— Electrek.co (@ElectrekCo) July 22, 2018
Here’s the first run for the final competition:
Someone in Elon’s entourage had those dark 20-inch Model 3 Performance rims we saw on Franz’s car https://t.co/lkMrnz8ePN pic.twitter.com/LdMYfYszpH
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) July 22, 2018
Team @WARR_Hyperloop’s official top speed was 284 mph – beating last year’s record!
— Hyperloop (@Hyperloop) July 22, 2018
Here are the teams who are competing this year:
| Team Name | University |
|---|---|
| Keio Alpha | Keio University |
| AZLoop | Arizona State University; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| Delft Hyperloop | Delft University of Technology |
| HyperXite | University of California, Irvine |
| Michigan Hyperloop | University of Michigan |
| Berkeley Hyperloop | University of California, Berkeley |
| Swissloop | ETH Zurich |
| EPFLoop | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| WARR Hyperloop | Technical University of Munich |
| Hyperloop UPV | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Hyperloop at VCU | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| DiggerLoop | Colorado School of Mines |
| UW Hyperloop | University of Washington |
| HyperPodX | C.v.O. University of Oldenburg; University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer |
| ÉirLoop | Dublin City University; Trinity College Dublin; University College Dublin; Dublin Institute of Technology; Institute of Technology Tallaght; National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Dublin Business School; Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology |
| Texas Guadaloop | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Badgerloop | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| HYPED | University of Edinburgh |
LEVITATION SUB-COMPETITION TEAMS
| Team Name | University |
|---|---|
| UCSB Hyperloop | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Spartan Hyperloop | San Jose State University |
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