The Chinese aerospace company is making plans for a high speed “flying train” that would travel at four times the speed of sound, which is much faster than any version of the Hyperloop.
Tesla’s internally developed Hyperloop pod recently surpassed the 220 mph (355 km/h) threshold during testing, according to CEO Elon Musk. Previous to this, the top-speed record for a Hyperloop design was 201 mph, some 20 mph less — achieved by the WARR team at the Hyperloop Pod Competition very recently.
A team from TUM in Germany won the third round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition with a top speed of 201 mph.
The city of Joworzno in Poland is setting itself up as a center for autonomous car development with a new legal framework and digital mapping taking place.
The XP1 transportation pod from Hyperloop One went almost 200 MPH in a test last week. Now, Elon Musk is thinking of getting personally involved again.
Elon Musk posted a video on Instagram yesterday showing the first test of the elevator that will be used to raise and lower vehicles to the tunnels created by his Boring Company. Also, Consumer Reports has restored the top ranking of the Tesla Model S.
Judging from the latest news cycle, Elon Musk is the most powerful person on earth right now. With just a few tweets, he pushed everything else in the overnight news cycle into the background. His claim that he has “verbal government approval” to build a Hyperloop system from New York to Washington, DC, spurred the news media to try to find out exactly who had given the approval. A blizzard of phone calls to state and local authorities by the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post, the National Inquirer, and the South Succotash Tattler all failed to turn up a single clue.
Elon Musk took to Twitter today to say he has verbal permission to begin boring tunnels from NYC to DC. He also spoke about other routes under consideration.
The concept of low- to no-pressure travel through tubes has been around for a few hundred years, but it’s clearly facing a revival of inspiration lately. It continues to capture imaginations as a promising future mode of transport, but also now investment dollars.
Today, the idea of achieving high-velocity travel in a controlled tube environment may have made a step forward, thanks to the startup Hyper Chariot Network.
Following its earlier city-level proposals competition in Europe, Hyperloop One has now revealed the candidate shortlist produced by that competition. The shortlist includes the proposals that were/are both economically and technically feasible.
