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Odette Bohr Dienel — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:54:15 +0000

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop could head to Europe before California — By Jana Kasperkevic | The Guardian

Odette Bohr Dienel — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:01:34 +0000

“Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive officer of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), announced on Thursday that HTT has reached an agreement with the Slovakian government to explore building a local Hyperloop system. A transport system capable of speeds of up to 760mph (1,223kph).

According to Ahlborn, the next steps will include identifying a route that could connect Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital, with Vienna and Budapest.”

MIT team wins Hyperloop competition, Elon Musk predicts global transportation network — By Adagio Strange | Mashable

Odette Bohr Dienel — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:01:56 +0000

“The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition crowned a winner on Sunday, naming the MIT Hyperloop Team as the group with the best look at what the Hyperloop transportation pod system might look like in the future.”

SpaceX just launched a Hyperloop pod-racing competition By Sean O’Kane | The Verge

Odette Bohr Dienel — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:35:54 +0000

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“SpaceX just announced an official contest open to university students and independent engineering teams. The company will release detailed rules, criteria, and tube specifications in August. … The challenge will be to build “human-scale pods” to be tested on the Hawthorne, California test track that will be built next to the SpaceX headquarters, but the company is careful to note that no humans will ride in the pods. All the designs submitted must be open source.”