Test run at the first full-scale facility will be carried out in the "Hyper Loop Concept" that will explode through the tube at 1200 km / h

ByFrank Gruber

Mr. Earon Mask, a businessman advocated by the company, is developing "two companies"Hyper loop"Test driving toward realization of the concept was carried out at the Las Vegas test site. In this experiment, a full-scale facility was used for the first time, and although the distance traveled and the speed still can be said as "the beginning of the year", it can be called the first step toward realization.

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Succeeded in this experiment is a company competing with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) for development toward realization "Hyperloop One"We have built a laboratory facility with a length of 500 meters on the vast land of Las Vegas, Nevada, and have been promoting the development of running experiments using full-scale equipment.


The test run was carried out on May 12, 2017. Actual appearance can be seen from 2 minutes of the following movie.

Hyperloop One: Full Scale System Test 5-12-17 - YouTube


The director where many staff members.


Along with the engineer's "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Fire" countdown ......


As a ride, the test vehicle accelerates while setting a strange sound that you can not hear.


The staff applauded with joy because the experiment was successful as the vehicle of the same size as the actual accelerated.


From another angle ......


Vehicles with only chassis parts will accelerate in the tube. In this experiment, the vehicle traveled for 5.3 seconds, the maximum speed reached 70 miles / hour (about 113 km / h), and the acceleration seems to have recorded 2 G.


When the vehicle speed got higher, the vehicle lifted off the rail and moved to the floating run. In order to realize a speed exceeding 1000 km / h, Hyperloop vehicles have been configured to "fly" the ground plane without using wheels, and it seems that we could confirm that we can actually rise in this experiment.


When the speed declines, the wheels come into contact with the ground.


Josh Ziegel (right), co-founder of Hyperloop One, is pleased to share pleasure with the staff with a sense of passion by being successful in running tests at real size. In the Hyper Loop concept aiming at running at supersonic speed of 700 mph per hour (about 1126 kilometers per hour), this time "70 mph" seems to make a long way to go, but first step in the first step It may be that it is the place where it is.


The vehicle developed by Hyperloop One is to be made of a composite material of carbon fiber and aluminum, it runs at supersonic speed in the decompressed tube, and it runs over 600 km in distance, even 1 hour in airplane It will take about 30 minutes to connect between Los Angeles and San Francisco.