American businessman Elon Musk posted on Twitter a video of a prototype of the Hyperloop passenger capsule, moving at record speed in a test vacuum tube. The capsule was created by students of the Munich technical University (Germany).
Video: @elonmusk / Twitter
According to information posted on the University’s website, a capsule weighing 80 kilograms, is equipped with an electric motor with a capacity of 50 kilowatts, has developed a speed of 324 kilometers per hour. On a prototype team WARR (Workgroup for Rocketry and Space Flight) has been working for the last six months, becoming the winner of the competition Hyperloop pod competition.
The competition, organized by SpaceX, took place on a test track in Hawthorne California, where the headquarters of the company. The previous record, achieved on 2 August 2017 Hyperloop One (on the track DevLoop in Nevada), was 310 kilometers per hour.