Hyperloop One reveals full-size prototype of its shiny new pod design
The transportation company also demonstrated its tech in a full-scale vacuum tube for the first time One of the world?s frothiest transportation fantasies is quickly moving from hype to reality. Hyperloop One, one of several companies racing to bring the tubular transportation tech to market, unveiled evidence of two big achievements today?a full-scale prototype of its pod design and a real-world test of its propulsion technology in vacuum conditions.
It was only about a year ago that Hyperloop One first demonstrated its propulsion technology in a three-second spectacle that was quickly slingshotted around the world on social media. At the time, the company commented that the ?sled? which performed the test would be replaced with 28-passenger pods that could be moved at great speeds through a vacuum tube. That brings us to today?s announcement: A video of the first full-scale test of the technology in a vacuum tube, which took place out in the Nevada desert. But as The Verge notes, the test only achieved a top speed of 70 mph?it will need to go 750 mph in order to fulfill transportation promises like zipping from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes, for example.
As the video shows, the pods will be propelled forward with an electric motor using magnetic-levitation (mag-lev) technology?the same tech that powers existing high-speed trains?but when the low-pressure environment is introduced in the tube, it decreases friction, allowing the pods to travel at very high speed...
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