Team Hyperloop India has made it to the finals of the much talked about Space X Hyperloop Competition Summer 2017 to be held at Hawthorne in California on August 25-27. The first and only team from India and one out of the two from Asia is among the top 24 finalists to build the super-fast mode of transport and race its pod alongside teams from the biggest engineering colleges of the world. The Challenge already has on board finalists pitching hard with their pods made of lightweight aluminium.

Hyperloop concept is based on the fifth mode of transportation proposed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, which would enable passengers to travel between two cities at over 700 miles per hour speed. Hyperloop is a system that would propel a passenger vehicle or cargo vehicle at jet speeds through a pod-like or steel tube vehicle, due to magnetic levitation in near-vacuum using a linear electric motor.

Team Hyperloop India claims that its design named ‘Orcapod’ can achieve speeds of up to 460 kilometres per hour in a vacuum tube.

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The team representing India was founded by a team of 60 students and is led by Team lead Sibesh Kar from BITS PIlani. Presently, it has expanded to a team comprising the best minds from the country's top engineering and B' schools, and is supported and mentored by experts in logistics, transportation, infrastructure and data from reputed organizations like Hyperloop One, MapmyIndia, SKF, Start-up India, Invest India, Workbench Projects, RITES, BMRCL, Jindal Aluminium, Peenya Industries Association, NITI Aayog, Ripple Technologies and DP World India.