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MIT and TU Delft emerge victorious at Hyperloop competition; Elon Musk drops hint about "electric jets"
[MIT's] team was awarded the top prize, and...Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands were the next runners-up. [...]
Musk took questions from the audience on everything from what inspired him to create the Hyperloop idea (being stuck in LA traffic), what advice he had for the winning teams (lots of dry runs), and what "crazy idea" he is working on next (electric jets — Musk says he thinks he's close to something, but said precious little about how they'd work).
— theverge.com
MIT's design will go on to compete at the Hyperloop test-run competition this summer, hosted at a bespoke race track being built near Hawthorne, CA – SpaceX's headquarters. Here's the complete list of winners from the competition, hosted by Texas A&M University:
- Best Overall Design Award: MIT Hyperloop Team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pod Innovation Award: Delft Hyperloop, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
- Pod Technical Excellence Award: Badgerloop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Pod Technical Excellence Award: Hyperloop at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech
- Pod Technical Excellence Award: HyperXite, University of California Irvine
Other teams advancing include:
- rLoop (non-student team)
- uWaterloo Hyperloop, University of Waterloo
- UWashington Hyperloop, University of Washington
- University of Toronto, University of Toronto
- RUMD Loop, University of Maryland and Rutgers University
- GatorLoop, University of Florida
- Team HyperLynx, University of Colorado-Denver
- Hyperloop UC, University of Cincinnati
- USCB Hyperloop, University of California-Santa Barbara
- bLoop, University of California-Berkeley
- TAMU Aerospace Hyperloop, Texas A&M
- WARR Hyperloop, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
- Purdue Hyperloop Design Team, Purdue University
- Codex, Oral Roberts University
- Lehigh Hyperloop, Lehigh University
- Keio Alpha, Keio University
- Drexel Hyperloop, Drexel University
- Carnegie Mellon Hyperloop, Carnegie-Mellon University
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