IIT Madras Students’ Hyperloop Pod Impresses SpaceX CEO Elon Musk And Others

X CEO Elon Musk is w all praises for a team of students from IIT Mras for developing a design for an automous hyperloop pod for India. se group of students, called Avishkar Hyperloop were finalists in recent X Hyperloop Pod Competition 2019 that took place in Los Angeles.  

Elon Musk also met Team Avishkar Hyperloop personally. ir project on an automous hyperloop for India could potentially open opportunities for relative lightning-fast transportation between two points through dedicated pathways. At this point in time, Virgin Hyperloop One owned by Jay Walder has proposed a hyperloop that is said to enable travel between Pune to Mumbai in just 30 minutes. Work on project is said to begin during December 2019.  

As far as Team Avishkar’s hyperloop design is concerned, y developed a pod weighing nearly 120 kilograms and measuring 3 metres in length. Avishkar members began work by fitting appropriate motors and a vacuum battery pack.  

subsystem was n built on top of this basic assembly; constraints here included multiple iterations carried out during assembly st.  

This design propelled Team Avishkar to finals of X Hyperloop Pod Competition; team was also first Asian team in finals. Winners of competition were Team Technical University of Munich (TUM) whose hyperloop clocked speeds of 463 km/hr. neless, with Elon Musk w having identified Team Avishkar’s design, re could be multiple new solutions potentially coming out from IIT-Mras students.  

Pranit Mehta, one of members of Team Avishkar led by second-year MTech student Suyash Singh, even tweeted meeting with Elon Musk: 

Along with Elon Musk, Team Avishkar interacted with Josh Geigel - Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop One as well, regarding progress of hyperloop project in India.   

“Always encouraging to see next generation of thinkers embracing this transformative techlogy!,” stated Virgin Hyperloop One in a tweet.  

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