Hyperloop’s first 800MPH pods will be designed by MIT and tested this summer

Feb01

by Sindy Cator on February 1, 2016 at 11:20 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Elon Musk, Hyperloop, MIT

Students from MIT have become the perhaps unsurprising first winners of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition, launched to create the concepts that might bring his new super-fast transportation pod to the world. Although he’s pretty busy launching rockets right now, Musk turned up at Texas A&M University to deliver the good news and hosted a 30-minute Q&A with more than 100 teams who’d signed up for the competition. The MIT team, along with 21 others, will get the opportunity to test their designs at Musk’s own one-mile test track this summer, which is being built opposite SpaceX’s California HQ. Musk first announced plans to build…