The test was conducted on the DevLoop test pipeline of Virgin Hyperloop in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The first two passengers on the train were Josh h.r.giger, chief technology officer and co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, and Sara Luchian, director of passenger experience. The highest test speed of the cockpit reached 48m/s (about 172km/h) that day.
DevLoop test track is 500 meters long and 3.3 meters in diameter. They were transferred to an airlock after getting on the ultra-high-speed train with white light and red light, and then the air in the closed vacuum tube was exhausted. The train accelerated to 100mph( 160km/h), and finally slowed down and stopped.
The cabin used for the first passenger test is called. XP-2？ It was completed with the help of the design company of the famous Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. It is a scaled-down version of the full-size cabin, and Virgin Hyperloop hopes to eventually carry 23 passengers. It is reported that it will weigh 2.5 tons and be about 15- 18 feet long. In order to make passengers feel familiar, the interior adopts white color matching.
Hyperloop, also known as super high-speed train, is the general name of vehicles that can travel at high speed in vacuum tubes, with a speed of up to 600 mph (965.438+0 km/h). At present, this technology is still in the research and development stage.
20 12 Tesla CEO elon and space exploration technology company? Musk re-conceived this technology, and engineers from Tesla and Space Exploration Technology Company completed the preliminary conceptual design of the super loop train. This document was published in August 20 13.
Virgin Hyperloop was formally established in 20 14, which is based on Musk's vision of this future transportation system. Virgin's super loop train system includes maglev technology, which is very similar to the high-speed maglev trains adopted in Japan and Germany.
The speed of this manned test is far from the top speed of 600 miles per hour. Virgin Hyperloop said that because the track is only 500 meters long, it limits the speed of the cockpit.
Virgin Hyperloop was founded on 20 14 to realize Tesla and Elon, CEO of Space Exploration Technology Company. Musk's vision of the future transportation system. Does it have an idea of carrying passengers and goods in the future? Capsule train? It will be able to travel in a vacuum pipeline at a speed of 60 miles per hour (about 966 kilometers), and it only takes 30 minutes from new york to Washington, which is twice as fast as the current commercial jet and more than four times faster than the high-speed railway.
Jay Walder, CEO of Virgin Hyperloop, said: This is a comprehensive and running super high-speed rail, which will not only run in a vacuum environment, but also be carried out in the presence of people. No one can do that. ?
The company has previously conducted more than 400 unmanned tests at the experimental site in Las Vegas. Virgin Hyperloop has said that it will strive to obtain safety certification for its ultra-high-speed trains by 2025 and put them into commercial operation by 2030.
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