Virgin Hyperloop is looking to first develop passenger routes in India, where the transport system is overloaded
- Virgin Hyperloop co-founder gives a tour of the firm’s test facility near Las Vegas
- It’s one of several companies working on the ambitious high-speed travel project
- Virgin Hyperloop completed a successful test run with two employees last year
Newly released photos show the construction of Hyperloop – the high-speed vacuum train that promises to hurtle customers along at up to 750 miles/hour (1,200 kph). Virgin Hyperloop, which is one of the companies constructing the ambitious project worldwide, gave Reuters a tour of its test site near Las Vegas. In the desert just north of Las Vegas, a long white metal tube sits at the base of the mountains, promising to one day revolutionize travel.
That is where Virgin Hyperloop, whose partners include Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, is developing the technology for passenger pods that will hurtle at speeds of up to 750 miles an hour (1,200 kph) through almost air-free vacuum tunnels using magnetic levitation.
“It will feel like an aircraft at take-off and once you’re at speed,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Josh Giegel, who gave Reuters an exclusive tour of the pod used in its November test run, where it was propelled along a 500 meter (1,640 ft)tunnel.
