The hyperloop team from Delft wants a title with record | inside

The competition, the Hyperloop Pod Competition, is organized by SpaceX. This is the space company of the colorful and controversial business man Elon Musk. He is also the driving force of the hyperloop. It's a kind of vacuum train. A capsule flies through a tube, which is sucked almost under vacuum. The idea is that the train can reach tremendous speeds because of low air resistance, faster than noise and faster than passenger planes. A trip between Amsterdam and Paris would then take half an hour.

This is future music. The hyperloop is now a concept. There are some test tubes, but there is no real work yet. Once the hyperloop can come true, Maaike Hakker thinks of the Delft team. "From a technical point of view, the hyperlop may already be there in a few years.However, it will take ten to thirty years before the hyperlop can be there when it's about it." Economics and politics, "she says.The biggest hurdle: the costs.The tube costs tens of millions per kilometer.

The competition for Sunday relates to speed.The vacuum tube measures 1 kilometer On this short distance, the capsules should stop safely at the maximum speed, then safely.The crash is not allowed. a chance and the fastest capsule wins.The current speed record is about 384 kilometers per hour.The Delft researchers do not want to say how far their capsule can last, "but hopefully we definitely beat this record. "

Delft won the first hyper race, early last year e In the second edition, last summer, they lost the title of WARR Hyperloop, a team of students from the Technical University of Munich. The Delft students now see the Germans as their main competitor, as is Swissloop, a team from the Zurich Technical High School