Hyperloop design speed 324 km / h

A carbon-plastic spacecraft designed to speed up to 324km / h won the first prize in Hyperton's super-speedboat production of American billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk's Hyperloop design competition last week went to a group of German students, according to Live Science.

Model designed by the WARR team in the tunnel. (Video: YouTube).

Musk, owner of SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink, aims to revolutionize transport with the idea of Hyperloop. This is an underground vacuum tube network with moving chambers thanks to magnetic buffer technology at subsonic speeds.

In January, SpaceX held the first Hyperloop Contest for students to test shipboard samples. WARR Hyperloop at Munich University of Technology, the winner of the first contest, continued to win the top prize at the Hyperloop Pod Competition on 25-27 August. WARR's cockpit is one of only three designs that meets technical standards when tested in a 1.28 kilometer long pipeline at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

The cabin built by WARR is a complete redesign of the award winning structure in the previous competition. Made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic, the cabin weighs just 80kg and can accelerate from 0 to 217 km / h in just 12 seconds.

This is a test model, because the test tube of SpaceX has a diameter of 1.8 meters. But Musk calculates the tunnels that can accommodate the 3,100-kilogram bunkers, each carrying 28 passengers. Musk wants to provide fast moving vehicles between cities nearly 1,500km apart. He said the Hyperloop system could carry passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles (616km) or from Munich to Berlin (940km) in about 30 minutes at a speed of 1,220km / h.

Hyperloop design of the WARR. Photo: Live Science.

WARR's winninger car is powered by an electric motor and a lithium-polymer battery. The pneumatic brakes provide braking force and damping devices to help reduce vibration at high speeds. When tested in SpaceX, the brakes allow the cruise liner to slow down from 324 to 0 km / h in three seconds.

On Twitter, Musk emphasized that the acceleration and deceleration required by experimental pipelines was relatively short, but the actual system would require a change in speed over the larger distance. Musk's plan was to install a self-sufficient system of energy by installing solar panels above the tunnel.