<p>The prototype of a transport capsule designed by Hyperloop India stole the show at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.</p>.<p>Hyperloop India is a startup formed by a group of students from BITS Pilani, Indian School of Business-Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.</p>.<p>OrcaPod, India's only entry at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition in California in August 2016, was one of the main attractions at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.</p>.<p>"We are in the process of developing a second prototype which will be an enhanced version of OrcaPod," said Hussain Harianawala, business development head of Hyperloop India.</p>.<p>The young men are in talks with different government agencies and firms, including Niti Ayog, engineering consultancy company RITES and other agencies to take the concept forward.</p>.<p>Hyperloop is a new way to move people or things anywhere in the world quickly with minimal impact on the environment.</p>.<p>The OrcaPod accelerates a passenger or cargo vehicle at airline speeds through a steel tube in near vacuum using a linear electric motor, making it the transport mode of the future.</p>.<p>Crowdfunding helped the young developers send their capsule to California, where Elon Musk-owned SpaceX Corporation is headquartered, to compete with 24 designs from across the world.</p>.<p>The competition was all about which pod can achieve maximum speed in the Hyperloop system built by SpaceX - one mile long and six feet in diameter.</p>.<p>The idea is to eliminate air resistance and contact friction to increase the speed to over 700 kmph.</p>.<p>Musk threw open the challenge in 2015 and OrcaPod made it to the finals after going through several rounds of design reviews.</p>
<p>The prototype of a transport capsule designed by Hyperloop India stole the show at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.</p>.<p>Hyperloop India is a startup formed by a group of students from BITS Pilani, Indian School of Business-Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.</p>.<p>OrcaPod, India's only entry at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition in California in August 2016, was one of the main attractions at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.</p>.<p>"We are in the process of developing a second prototype which will be an enhanced version of OrcaPod," said Hussain Harianawala, business development head of Hyperloop India.</p>.<p>The young men are in talks with different government agencies and firms, including Niti Ayog, engineering consultancy company RITES and other agencies to take the concept forward.</p>.<p>Hyperloop is a new way to move people or things anywhere in the world quickly with minimal impact on the environment.</p>.<p>The OrcaPod accelerates a passenger or cargo vehicle at airline speeds through a steel tube in near vacuum using a linear electric motor, making it the transport mode of the future.</p>.<p>Crowdfunding helped the young developers send their capsule to California, where Elon Musk-owned SpaceX Corporation is headquartered, to compete with 24 designs from across the world.</p>.<p>The competition was all about which pod can achieve maximum speed in the Hyperloop system built by SpaceX - one mile long and six feet in diameter.</p>.<p>The idea is to eliminate air resistance and contact friction to increase the speed to over 700 kmph.</p>.<p>Musk threw open the challenge in 2015 and OrcaPod made it to the finals after going through several rounds of design reviews.</p>
