Hyperloop was conceived by Elon Musk, who then opened the design up for anyone or any entity that wanted to pursue it. Virgin Hyperloop is one such entity. The first blast in the Virgin Hyperloop was only 500 meters long at the company's test center outside Las Vegas.Aug 31, 2021
DP World is Virgin Hyperloop's majority owner, with 76% of shares. Virgin founder Richard Branson was originally drawn to the hyperloop project for its potential to transport passengers. He became the company's chairman in 2017.Feb 22, 2022
If the Boring Company wins the bid to design and implement its HyperLoop in San Antonio, it will add the city to its current roster of clients including Las Vegas; Hawthorne, Calif.; and potentially Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Aug 9, 2021
In July 2017, the company announced that it had successfully completed its first full system hyperloop test in a vacuum environment. The vehicle cruised through the first part of DevLoop for 5.3 seconds, achieving 2Gs of acceleration and achieving a speed of 69mph.Mar 25, 2021
Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa.
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It's 3 1/2 times faster than Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains and even faster than a Boeing 747. It's a hyperloop – magnetic pods levitating inside a tube at more than 1,000 kilometers per hour. In theory, you could go from LA to San Francisco in just 45 minutes with tickets less than $100 one way.Jul 22, 2021
China's Shanhai Maglev train is currently the world's fastest, able to hit 311 mph with a top operating speed of 268 mph. As proposed, the Hyperloop would more than double that speed.Aug 13, 2013
A hyperloop, as you may have heard, is a super speed ground-level transportation system in which people could travel in a hovering pod inside a vacuum tube at speeds as high as 760 mph (1220 km/h), just shy of the speed of sound.Feb 13, 2021
760 mphIt's an important achievement for Virgin Hyperloop, which was founded in 2014 on the premise of making Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision of a futuristic transportation system of magnetically levitating pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph (1,223 km/h) a reality.Nov 8, 2020
Elon Musk proposed the Hyperloop in 2012, but it has yet to be executed. In 2018, The BBC reported that student tests of the track last year reached a top speed of 290 miles per hour.Nov 1, 2019
India is not the only country seeking to pioneer hyperloop technology. Plans are being developed to link Dubai and Abu Dhabi with a hyperloop. Mexico City and Guadalajara are also hoping to be one of the first to showcase the new technology. The project has also received significant political and governmental support.