Announcements

The Competition has been postponed for the time being. Further Updates will follow soon. All teams are encouraged to keep working on their respective designs.

The Indian Hyperloop Pod Competition

To increase awareness and enthusiasm about Hyperloop in India, The Indian Hyperloop Pod Competition is being organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where a number of student teams from across the globe will participate to design and build a subscale prototype transport vehicle to demonstrate the technical feasibility of various aspects of the Hyperloop concept. This competition will focus on multiple key aspects involved in designing, manufacturing and testing a Hyperloop Pod. The competition is open to all globally and the final judgement shall take place in the IIT Madras campus in July 2020. Having cleared the Design Briefing, a few selected teams make it to the final round, wherein, the teams will have to develop a fully functional prototype of their design and run it through the IIT Madras Hyperloop Test Track at the IIT Madras Campus in Chennai, India.

Hyperloop

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, unveiled the idea of Hyperloop to the World through a White Paper - Hyperloop Alpha. It is the fifth mode of transportation that moves freight and people quickly, safely and directly from the origin to destination. Passengers or cargos are loaded into the Hyperloop pod and accelerated gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The proposed Hyperloop model can achieve a top speed of over 1200 kmph. It is completely autonomous, safe, clean and enclosed. More importantly, Hyperloop is environment friendly and doesn't call for much maintenance too. Hyperloop has been "open-sourced" by Elon Musk and SpaceX to attract innovations and improvements in the concept, thus optimising the technology and bringing out the better version of itself.

IIT Madras

Located in Chennai - the automotive capital of Asia, IIT Madras, which was set up in 1959, is one of the premier institutions in the Indian subcontinent. It has been ranked under NIRF as #1 for four consecutive years (2016 - 2019) as the best Engineering Institution in the country under NIRF by MHRD, Government of India. While nurturing students to contribute to the development of the country, the institute has laid down several pathways to support its wide student base, in various spheres of life. With support of its esteemed alumni of over 60 years, the institute houses - one of its kind - Centre For Innovation, which serves as a workspace for the students who choose to bring out some innovation with their ideas. It is also home to Team Avishkar Hyperloop, which represented IIT Madras at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 2019 as one of the top 21 finalists from around the world.