New hyperloop design comes from the mind of a yearold. Elon musks transportation vision by elle mahdavi proposed in 20, the hyperloop is a highspeed vacuum tube transportation system that is twice as fast as air travel, and much more energy efficient. Elon musks hyperloop vision passenger ready by 2018. Publication date 208 topics elon musk, hyperloop, hyperloop alpha document, hyperloop technical design analysis, hyperloop feasibility analysis, hyperloop comprehensive database, hcdb. Model of elon musks superfast hyperloop goes from 0116mph in two seconds in groundbreaking test. What is elon musks hyperloop, and why is it important. I apologize in advance for my loose use of language and imperfect analogies. Today, hyperloop one formerly hyperloop technologies accelerated a test.
Elon musk promises new hyperloop tunnel after speed record. The highspeed hyperloop, which musk has described as a cross between a concorde, a rail gun and an air hockey table, could travel at a. Musk claimed hyperloop would be cheaper to build and faster to operate. At these projected speeds, it is suggested that hyperloop would be 23 times faster than high speed rail and 1015 times faster than traditional rail. While the idea of people traveling in tubes has been around for more than a century, entrepreneur elon musk drafted actual. In 2014, the hyperloop was an idea, a series of obscure equations sketched on a whiteboard in a garage, unintelligible to all except for rocket scientists. Elon musk is building a hyperloop test track the atlantic. The hyperloop or something similar is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of hightraffic city pairs that are less than about 1,500 km. A look inside a new mode transportation research board. Elon musk unveils his plans for the hyperloop ted blog. Elon musk unveils san franciscola hyperloop idea bbc. Publication date 208 topics elon musk, hyperloop, hyperloop alpha document, hyperloop technical design analysis, hyperloop feasibility analysis, hyperloop comprehensive database. First look of elon musk hyperloop transport system youtube.
Nov 23, 2015 the hyperloop is the concept for a new highspeed transportation system. That kind of highspeed travel is the endgame of spacexs hyperloop, and teams around the world are working hard to. Elon musks vision of hyperloop, a superfast transport system, has taken a step closer to reality and now we know what it might look like. The official spacex hyperloop pod competition spacex announced the hyperloop pod competition in 2015. Elon musk unveils san franciscola hyperloop idea bbc news. Elon musk gets hyperloop digging permit in washington, dc. Elon musk hyperloop dreams slam into cold hard reality. Elon musks hyperloop finally unveiled for bumpy test. Elon musks hyperloop test aiming for half the speed of sound. Jun 15, 2015 elon musk is building a hyperloop test track. Heres how elon musks hyperloop can potentially kill you.
May 11, 2016 hyperloop startup has built the first fullscale test track for the transportation system in the desert outside las vegas. Pdf hyperloop is a new mode of transportation proposed as an alternative to. Page 40 for aerodynamic efficiency, the speed of a capsule in the hyperloop is typically. Hyperloop is firstly proposed by elon musk and a team of engineer from tesla motors and the space exploration technologies corporation in august 20.
Elon musk the serial entrepreneur who heads tesla, spacex and now the boring company says he just received verbal government approval to build a new. If elon musk has his way, we could soon travel at nearly the speed of sound. The hyperloop is musks plan for a new transportation system thats faster and cheaper than a highspeed train. Elon musk claimed hyperloop could operate at top speeds of 760mph, however. Elon musk, of spacex and tesla motors, revealed his futuristic hyperloop transportation system on august 12, 20. In order to accelerate the development of a functional prototype and to encourage student innovation, spacex announced a hyperloop pod competition in 2015 to design and build a hyperloop pod.
Though the hyperloop design was initially conceptualized by elon musk in 2012. Elon musk is building a hyperloop, and its great news for. Construction permits have been filed for what is expected to be the first passengerready hyperloop, the 760mph vacuum transport system envisioned by u. The hyperloop system built by spacex at its headquarters in hawthorne, california is approximately one mile in length with a six foot outer diameter. The hyperloop, elon musks vision of launching humans through pods inside a highspeed transportation system, could be ready for passengers by 2018, according to a company building a. On the aerodynamic design of the hyperloop concept max m. Feb 19, 2018 last year, the internet needled elon musk for tweeting he had verbal approval to dig a hyperloop tunnel in washington, dc, because officials said they granted no such thing. Hyperloop is much more than elon musk, according to this new ad hyperloop transportation technologies has launched a new brand film to hype its. Nearly four years to the day after elon musk first published his plans for the system, the company set a new hyperloop speed record.
Hyperloop a reality check for the much hyped technology. Musk dubbed his idea for a fifth mode of transportation after planes, trains, boats, and automobiles the hyperloop in his initial 2012 remarks. Sep 18, 20 when elon musk unveiled the hyperloop back in august, his critics were quick to scoff at his proposal for a new, superfast mode of transporation. Students build the worlds fastest hyperloopthen elon musk showed up when elon musk decided he wanted to help. Elon musk is back in the loop four years after encouraging anyone and everyone to try making his crazy hyperloop idea work, the silicon valley titan has decided hes not too busy to do it. Elon musk released a whitepap er titled hyperloop alpha paper to generate conversati on about a fifth mode of transportation faster than commerci al air travel, more energy efficient. The hyperloop dreamed up by elon musk, and enabled by 1800s pneumatic banking. Everything you need to know about the race for superfast travel. Watch elon musks hyperloop pusher pod set a new speed record. In musks words, a hyperloop is a system to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment.
Pdf opensource conceptual sizing models for the hyperloop. Aug 12, 20 hyperloop passenger transport capsule conceptual design sketch. Aug, 20 elon musk unveils hyperloop plans which promises to transport people and cars across california faster than bullet trains and at a fraction of the cost. Mar 10, 2016 innovate now europe wants elon musk s hyperloop the government of slovakia is exploring plans to build a hyperloop system in europe that would connect the country with austria and hungary. New pictures reveal how a test for elon musks hyperloop. Musk said the hyperloop arrangement could be implemented between any pair of cities situated up to, say, 900 miles 1,500 kilometers apart.
Hyperloop, as described conceptually by elon musk of spacex and tesla in an. Eventually, musk is hoping a hyperloop system could be used in the underground tunnels his boring company is developing. As two companies compete to complete the worlds first commercial hyperloop, one stretch of desert holds the key to realising elon musks vision for a new mode of transport. Musk does not ask for any license fees on the proposed concept open.
Elon musks hyperloop could revolutionise public transport. Elon musk plans to build hyperloop test track cnet. Why is hyperloop one of elon musk physically impossible. Elon musk says hyperloop hit a top speed of 463kmh before. Elon musks hyperloop debuts an open source approach to megaprojects a new approach to a system that has seen no productivity increases in 50 years. Musk estimated that about a dozen engineers from spacex. Hes willing to pay for testing most likely in texas. He put a pdf about it on his website and said anyone could have a go. Is elon musk going to combine his tunnel project with the hyperloop. Jul 15, 20 musk has likened the hyperloop to both a groundbased concorde and a cross between a concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table, while noting that it has no need for rails. A tribute to the working cowboy photographs by kendall nelson. The ceo of spacex and tesla wants to speed up the development of 800mph tube transport. First pics of elon musks 500mph hyperloop which could travel.
Elon musk has given us his vision of 21st century intercity travel. Musks original hyperloop proposal includes individual highlevel analyses of many. Sep 18, 2017 in elon musks hyperloop contests, students main goal is scoring a job as the billionaire lays plans to build a tubebased train system, young talent is competing for a chance to be by his. Elon musks hyperloop technology has the potential to revolutionise the way we travel. That 20second run clinched the top prize for warr, beating out paradigm hyperloops 63 milesperhour, and swissloops 25 milesperhour, also impressive.
From the mind of one billionaire to the wallet of another, elon musks hyperloop concept is getting a big boost towards becoming a reality. Jan 15, 2015 elon musk plans to build hyperloop test track. In a white paper entitled hyperloop alpha, elon musk described the. A design competition for elon musk s revolutionary open source hyperloop transportation concept will take place in 2016, the spacex ceo and founder announced last month. Elon musks hyperloop is successfully demonstrated in las. Hyperloop aims to transport passengers between metropolitan cities at a high speed. Oct 12, 2017 from the mind of one billionaire to the wallet of another, elon musk s hyperloop concept is getting a big boost towards becoming a reality from richard branson and the virgin group. A real hyperloop is almost here and its not what elon musk. Ideally, youd remove the air from the tube so the pod doesnt. Leon vanstone, a rocket scientist and aerodynamic engineer, explains elon musks hyperloop. Just received verbal govt approval for the boring company to build an underground nyphilbaltdc hyperloop. The brainchild of tech visionary elon musk, it was proposed as a long, underground tunnel system that.
Elon musks hyperloop dream may come true and soon its happening far faster than i would have ever expected, and its happening all over the world. Elon musk founder of paypal, spacex, tesla, proposed, under the designation hyperloop a novel transportation system, and described it in detail in a concept paper 1. The reveal came after the ceo of tesla, spacex, and the boring company had pushed it back a week. Hyperloop alpha intro the first several pages will attempt to describe the design in everyday language, keeping numbers to a minimum and avoiding formulas and jargon. Elon musks next hyperloop test will aim for half the speed of sound, could easily turn pod into shredded metal published mon, apr 9. How elon musks dream is becoming a reality february 8, 2016 in its simplest form, the hyperloop is an elevated tube that runs for hundreds of miles between cities, propelling.
Nov 23, 2017 all your questions about the hyperloop, answered. In musks paper detailing his idea for hyperloop, he specially devised. Elon musk has been widely mocked after revealing the final version of his muchhyped underground transportation project. Elon musks hyperloop is the hot new tech against all odds, it looks like hyperloop is happening and elon was right about the price.
It is remarkable that musk does not ask for any license fees on the proposed concept open source concept. Cnn several rival companies may be hard at work trying to get elon musks hyperloop concept off the ground, but hurtling across country maybe even across continents at 600 miles per. The second section is for those with a technical background. Hyperloop one was born in 2014 out of a competition by mr musk to develop the first hyperloop. In this study, the initial route, preliminary design, and logistics of the. Elon musk also announced that next years competition will take place in a. Using travel pods inside metallic tubes, he calls it as a fifth mode of transport in addition to cars, planes, boats, and trains. Hyperloop is a new idea of solar powered transportation system with high speed of up to 800mph, which is developed by us entrepreneur elon musk. After all, elon musk didnt think up the hyperloop, he just made up a silly name for something that was seriously proposed over a century ago.
Elon musks vision for a futuristic form of transport has achieved a new milestone after a hyperloop test pod hit a new top speed of 288mph 463kph before it exploded. The hyperloop is a highspeed commuter and freight transport system that could reach speeds of around 750. Aug 02, 2017 this morning, a company called hyperloop one made history. Mar 07, 2017 first pics of elon musks 500mph hyperloop which could travel from dubai to abu dhabi in just twelve minutes. Over the past year, elon musk, billionaire founder of paypal, tesla, and spacex, has been floating the notion of a hyperloop as a future replacement for bullet trains. Aug 12, 20 elon musk has given us his vision of 21st century intercity travel. Elon musks hyperloop vision could be ready for passengers. Hyperloop is much more than elon musk, according to this. Mar 09, 2017 elon musk s vision of hyperloop, a superfast transport system, has taken a step closer to reality and now we know what it might look like.
Hyperloop one, one of the companies developing the. Is elon musk going to combine his tunnel project with the. The concept of hyperloop includes travelling people from one place to another place in a capsule which is propelling at a. But thunderf00t may be right on the practicality front, and im not sure musk a. Musks original paper said hyperloop would be cheaper than existing highspeedtransit options, but at this point, with the technology still. Hyperloop is a completely new mode of fastest transportation. Elon musks hyperloop competition set a new world record. Students built the worlds fastest hyperloopthen elon musk. What people and companies want is access to goods or services. Elon musks hyperloop is doomed for the worst reason. A simulationbased approach to provide insights on hyperloop. Tum hyperloop has set a new hyperloop speed record of 463 kmh at the fourth annual spacex hyperloop pod competition.