The Swiss Hyperloop project has successfully completed its longest test to date.
Engineers from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, the School of Engineering and Management Vaud, and Swisspod Technologies have announced the successful testing of a Hyperloop vacuum train prototype designed for cargo transport.
2024-11-07 10:01:15https://naked-science.ru/community/1004502
In Lausanne, there is a 120-meter circular test track. This week, engineers announced that they conducted the longest Hyperloop test to date.
Their transport capsule traveled 11.8 kilometers at a speed of 40.7 kilometers per hour.
It may sound modest, but the engineering team claims that in a full-scale system, this test "directly translates" to a journey of 141.6 kilometers, which is roughly the distance between Geneva and Bern or San Francisco and Sacramento. The equivalent speed is 488.2 kilometers per hour.