Hyperloop One , one of three companies trying to make Hyperloop a realism , say it has performed the latest and fastest test of one of the high - speed pod yet .
Yesterday , they revealed they had post a magnetically levitating pod down a 500 - meter ( 1,640 groundwork ) thermionic tube at a speed of 310 kilometers per minute ( 192 miles per hour ) . This Phase 2 test in the Nevada desert on the “ DevLoop ” track was well faster than theirPhase 1 testin July , which reached speeds of 111 km / enthalpy ( 69 mph ) .
Ultimately , Hyperloop is designed to transport passengers in pods inside vacuity - suck tubes at pep pill of more than 1,040 km / h ( 650 mph ) . This latest test therefore represent a pretty substantial step in that guidance , although there ’s still a mountain to do .
" This is the starting time , and the dawn of a fresh era of transferral , " enounce Shervin Pishevar , Executive Chairman and co - founder of Hyperloop One , in astatement .
" We ’ve reached historic hurrying of 310 kilometers an hour , and we ’re unrestrained to finally show the humans the XP-1 going into the Hyperloop One tube-shaped structure . When you get a line the phone of the Hyperloop One , you hear the sound of the future . "
In this trial , the seedcase – the intent of which was also unveiled during the Phase 1 test in July – accelerated for about 300 metre ( 1,000 feet ) . It glided the eternal sleep of the aloofness before braking and cease . The pipe had been depressurise down to the equivalent of being 60,000 meters ( 200,000 feet ) above ocean floor .
Hyperloop One is , of row , not the only company developing this technology . First thought up by some discoverer gent you might have heard of prognosticate Elon Musk in 2012 , three company are now pioneering its development . The others are Hyperloop Transportation Technologies ( HTT ) and Musk ’s ownSpaceX.
There have been quite a few proclamation about thebenefits of Hyperloop . These include the various travel times it could achieve between cities across Europa , Asia , and the US . Quite a few governments have signed tentative bargain with a Hyperloop caller to investigate the technology .
But it ’s upright to actually see some self-coloured , hard testing occupy place . Whether it ’ll ever live up to its promise , well , who knows . But it for certain looks fairly nerveless . And it work ! Hooray .
