{"id":226425,"date":"2017-08-28T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T07:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=226425"},"modified":"2017-08-28T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:00:48","slug":"german-team-wins-hyperloop-pod-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/226425-german-team-wins-hyperloop-pod-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"German team wins Hyperloop Pod competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Warr team from the Technical University of Munich took first place at SpaceX&#8217;s recent Hyperloop Pod competition, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/27\/hyperloop-pod-competition-winner-hits-200-mph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s Hyperloop pod reached a top speed of 323km\/h before halting at the end of a 1.25km track.<\/p>\n<p>Warr&#8217;s pod was built for the competition, weighing 80kg and powered by a 50kW motor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Hyperloop system is being designed by Tesla and SpaceX, and consists of a large vacuum tube through which electrically-powered pods can travel with minimal resistance.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Hyperloop pod run by team WARR <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ntaMsoxkZE\">pic.twitter.com\/ntaMsoxkZE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/902039243601485824\">August 28, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/226305-neuralink-raises-27-million-to-build-a-brain-computer-interface.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Neuralink raises $27 million to build a brain-computer interface<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warr team from Munich took first place at SpaceX&#8217;s Hyperloop Pod competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":226427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[20925,11375,20719,45605],"class_list":["post-226425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-hyperloop","tag-spacex","tag-tesla","tag-warr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226451,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226425\/revisions\/226451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}