A team of German students has won SpaceX’s second Hyperloop competition, sending their pod to an impressive speed of 324 kilometers (201 miles) per hour. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.
The team which consisted of students from the Technical University of Munich were able to get its pod, which is powered by a 50 kW electric motor up to a speed of 200 mph at SpaceX's Hyperloop tube. A ...
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Germany’s Team TUM has finished first at the latest Hyperloop Pod Competition, with its vehicle reaching the fastest speed — 288 mph (463 kph) — along a straight, three-quarter-mile test track.