Elon Musk finally made it: his Hyperloop is starting to take its first steps. The first test stretch (about 10 km) in California is under construction.
It is located in Quay Valley, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will carry 10 million people in its initial phase for the next two and a half years. In the prototype trains, passengers will reach a speed no higher than 260 km per hour in this initial phase, but in some sections the special vacuum 'capsules' that make up the carriages of this futuristic transport system will reach the extraordinary speed of 1200 km per hour .
Hyperloop can take passengers on its first scheduled route (Los Angeles – San Francisco, approximately 610km) in half an hour from one city to another: half the time it would take an airplane.
How Hyperloop works?
These are real vacuum "tubes" in which pressurized capsules will run on a cushion of air driven by induction motors and compressed air. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, filed a patent for this transportation system in 2013. The costs for this first system, according to one estimate, will exceed 6 billion dollars.
