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Young Entrepreneurs Getting Ready to Establish the First Hyperloop Company of Turkey

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In the Hyperloop (High-Tech Sur-Rail Transportation Vehicles) Development Contest that is held for the first time with the collaboration of TEKNOFEST and TÜBİTAK, Yeditepe University’s Automotive Club has taken the second place with the Hperhawk ‘E-7 Infinity’ design of their Hyperloop team. Team’s captain Barbaros Efe, Alumni of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Yeditepe University, stated that “There are about 10 companies working on the hyperloop technology throughout the world. We also want to establish a hyperloop company that will represent Turkey and we started our efforts towards that goal”.

In hyperloop technology, which has been first started to study by a company of Elon Musk in 2016, trains are aimed to move without ground contact or contact to rails in airtight tunnels, hanging with various methods and using various thrust systems. This way, vehicles are aimed to reach twice the speed of airplanes since there is no air resistence or friction. Taking the second place among 56 university teams in ‘Hyperloop Development Contest’ of TEKNOFEST KARADENİZ, the Hyperhawk team of Yeditepe University’s Automotive Club stated that they are aiming to present this technology to Turkey, following their efforts of establishing a company within Yeditepe University.

Also, the team has been awarded the Jury Special Award by TÜBİTAK RUTE since their design passed the technical controls of Europe’s longest hyperloop tunnels at once and in the shortest possible timeframe, as well as being the first team to go into the tunnels. - Eda ŞAHİN - Ömer HASAR/İSTANBUL, (DHA)

“WE HAVE BEEN PLACED 11TH IN EUROPE IN THE CONTEST AT LONDON”

Stating that hyperloop technology is not the only effort that they focus on as Yeditepe University Automotive Club, Barbaros Efe, captain of the 23-people Hyperhawk Team, stated the following: “We participate in contests such as electrical vehicles, electrical autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and hyperloop capsules. We also participate in international contests. Recently, we participated in an international contest in London. At that contest, we have been placed 11th in Europe among the world’s most prestigious universities”.

“WE WILL SEE HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN 10 YEARS”

Stating that Hyperloop Technology is a system that is a hot topic troughout the world at the moment, Efe stated the following: “Hyperloop is considered the fifth alternative to the air, land, sea and rail transport systems. It is a system named ashigh-tech sur-rail systems. The first tests of this system took place in 2016, by Elon Musk’s company at Nevada Desert and they aim to reach 1200 kph at this system. It is a hot topic throughout the world and we will see this system around us in 10 years. Turkey has a great advantage in this, since TÜBİTAK RUTE (Institute of Rail Transportation Technologies) constructed the world’s second longest tunnel with 208 meters”.

“WE WANT TO BE AMONG THE PIONEERS OF THE WORLD”

Efe continued his world as follows: “With Hyperloop technology, the distance between Istanbul and Ankara canbe travelled in about half an hour. I have to point out that we did not participate in this contest just to be participants. There are less than 10 companies working on hyperloop technology throughout the world. We also want to establish a company on hyperloop technology that will represent Turkey. We started our efforts with the support of Bedrettin Dalan, Founder and the Honorary President of İSTEK Foundation and Yeditepe University, and Barış Dalan, Head of the Board of Executives of İSTEK Education. We aim to establish our own company on Hyperloop technology in about 1-2 months and want to be among the pioneers of the world”.

“WE WERE THE FIRST CONTESTANTS IN THE TUNNEL”

Stating that they completed the contest as the second in Turkey among 56 universities, Member of the Hyperhawk team and the Chair of the Automotive Club of the university, Eray Çobanoğlu stated the following: “Here, we establish a magnetic thrust power on an aluminum rail with magnetic levitation, and since there is no air resistence or friction within the tunnel, our capsule can reach extremely high speeds within the tunnel. As stated before, if there is a tunnel between Istanbul and Ankara, this distance can be travelled in about 25-30 minutes. There are efforts focusing on this currently. As Yeditepe University, we have been the pioneers of this. We conducted our studies and we were the first to put our name in the history by being the first participants in the tunnel”.

“WE CAN SEE HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGY IN TURKEY”

Stating that Hyperloop technology can also be used in Turkey, Çobanoğlu stated: “As we already stated, we are striving to establish our own company within the university and aim to present this technology to our public. We received a nice award with this contest. We spend the support that we earn here with the aim of using it in bigger contests with better projects effectively. We are always open to the technologies of the future. We work on the technology of the future here, and, as you can see, we have achieved great success”.

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