A 30-member team of IIT Madras students, Team Avishkar Hyperloop, has cleared the final design round of SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 2019, becoming one of the top 22 teams selected from across the world. The team is also the only Indian finalist. The students will represent India at the finals at SpaceX Headquarters in Los Angeles in July 2019.
Read MoreSpaceX, founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2002, announced the Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2015 where participants are required to build a subscale prototype transport vehicle to demonstrate the technical feasibility of various aspects of the Hyperloop concept.
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