Hyperloop is Elon Musk’s (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) concept for the future of mass transport. It offers a new means of transporting people and goods quickly, safely, efficiently and with minimised environmental impact.

Hyperloop uses electric propulsion to accelerate a passenger or cargo pod through a low-pressure tube. The autonomous pod levitates slightly using magnets to eliminate friction. It will be faster than an airline and will allow you to travel from London to Edinburgh in 40 minutes. Carbon emissions, noise, delays, weather concerns and pilot error are ultimately eliminated.

HYPED is a University of Edinburgh student society dedicated to accelerating development of Hyperloop technology and implementing Hyperloop in the UK. We have over 50 members in the team working on various aspects of the project including technical design of the prototype, manufacturing, economic feasibility, stakeholder engagement and publicity.

After a successful year, HYPED has advanced to the final stages of SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod competition, held in California in Summer 2017. We are one of 24 finalists selected to compete, after showing our technical excellence and ambition both in the previous competition and in SpaceX and university presentations. The competition challenges students to design and build a pod to race along a mile-long Hyperloop tube.

HYPED has also been named a winner in the Hyperloop One Global Challenge. Our proposed route linking Edinburgh to London has been selected as a possible location for the very first commercial Hyperloop. In summer 2017, we presented our case at a global conference in Amsterdam, discussing the feasibility of making Hyperloop in the UK a reality.

How can I join or sponsor HYPED?

We’re glad to have you on board, so feel free to contact us at: 

Email: team@hyp-ed.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hypedinburgh/

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Ummi Faqihah Binti Jihati

Andrew Lawson

Daniel Glasspool

Janek Kolaczyk

Kevin Abraham Siby

Mehmet Tasman

Samuel Gormley

Andreas Alexandra

Christine Loo Jin Ai

Patryk Fugat

Carlos Alonso

Tinius Mosvold

Arjun Naha

Filip Busic

Aleksandra Osuchouska

Haoran Lei

Thomas Barrett

Tom Holland

Abhinav Datla

James Chen

Jingyi Zhou

Akash Ganeshan

Artuno Thorne

Selina Xu

Rachel Mountain - Manoury

Juraj Pavlovic

David Beechey

Hei Wong

Ishan Mishra

Jakub Rimmer

Max Guy

Tomas Wilson

Sasmira Kronmueller

Denisa Levai

Aryan Sharma

Dylan Cavers

Fayz Siddiqui

Ali Mushtaq Kath

Rory Weetman

Sean O'connor

Tommy Johnson

Bence Szilagyi

Fedor Cheltsov

Fraser Roach

Kilian Wolff

Eric Stefan

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