The concept of hyperloop includes travelling people from one place to another place in a capsule which is propelling at a. For transportation nerds, elon musk s hyperloop holds a special place in the imagination. The competitions have been open to participants globally, although all. Publication date 208 topics elon musk, hyperloop, hyperloop alpha document, hyperloop technical design analysis, hyperloop feasibility analysis, hyperloop comprehensive database. Pdf hyperloop as an evolution of maglev researchgate. Hyperloop one is one of several startups racing to make elon musk s vision for super fast travel a reality. The hyperloop is musks plan for a new transportation system thats faster and cheaper than a highspeed train. Elon musk founder of paypal, spacex, tesla, proposed, under the designation hyperloop a novel transportation system, and described it in detail in a concept paper 1. He went from co creating a software company, to designing forward thinking electric vehicles, to. Hyperloop is a technology that gained popularity after billionaire elon musk. Elon musks hyperloop is now borrowing ideas from trains.
The hyperloop is the concept for a new highspeed transportation system. Hyperloop is firstly proposed by elon musk and a team of engineer from tesla motors and the space exploration technologies corporation in august 20. The hyperloop isnt operating yet, so i would hesitate to state that musk is credited with inventing the hyperloop. Elon musk s latest invention hyperloop is racing ahead, and is expected to be ready for commercial operations by 2021.
The concept of hyperloop includes traveling people from one place to another place in a capsule which is propelling at a very high speed. In 20, elon musk, ceo of space exploration technologies spacex and. By removing the financial, technological, safety and environmental risks, and by removing the wasted time, stress, and complications of travel, were removing the. While the idea of people traveling in tubes has been around for more than a century, entrepreneur elon musk. Hyperloop is a completely new mode of fastest transportation. Elon musk unveils hyperloop plans the washington post. Elon musk and his entrepreneurial ventures introduction elon musk is a southafrican serial entrepreneur and is the founder of tesla motors, spacex and paypal. Musk claims that the narrow 14 foot diameter of the bore will reduce drilling costs. Elon musk speaks about hyperloop and tunneling at spacexs hyperloop pod competition. The transpod tube system is distinct from the hyperloop concept proposed by elon musk s hyperloop alpha white paper. Hyperloop might be the fastest mode of terrestrial transportation in next decade. Mar 09, 2017 elon musk s vision of hyperloop, a superfast transport system, has taken a step closer to reality and now we know what it might look like.
Hyperloop consists of a low pressure tube with capsules that are transported at both low. Tesla and spacex founder elon musk lit up the twitterverse thursday with a series of tweets indicating that he received the goahead for an ultrafast underground hyperloop transit system that would connect new york city to philadelphia, baltimore and washington d. Oct 14, 2017 richard branson backed hyperloop one, a futuristic technology that will zip humans around underground. This is the hyperloop, elon musks fantastical vision of mass. Mar 30, 2019 elon musk hyperloop dreams slam into cold hard reality. Elon musk s hyperloop dream may come true and soon its happening far faster than i would have ever expected, and its happening all over the world. The fairly young and ambitious musk has a number of internet projects and the most, perhaps, loud physical projects. One of the more interesting people on this planet is elon reeve musk. A look inside a new mode transportation research board. Ijtsrd unique paper id ijtsrd22831 volume 3 issue 3 marapr 2019 page.
This mode of transportation would allow for the rapid movement of people or cargo within capsules pods propelled by a magnetic field in suspension through bidirectional low pressure tubes. Mohammed imran, international journal of engineering research, 2016. Get the latest 2018 project journals, most relevant pdf, seminar reports and ppt to learn the. Hyperlooptt has brought together a global team to create a frictionless world. Billionaire elon musk has announced details of hyperloop, his mysterious highspeed transportation project. It is my personal reading of the published factoids. Kayela, editor of scientific and technical department, hyperloop.
Dec 28, 2018 hyperloop is speeding up in more ways than one. Some of the few hats he wears is engineer, inventor, investor, and visionary. Aug, 20 elon musk unveils plans for hyperloop transport system. Elon musk s question to ashlee vance, author of his 2015 biography do you think im insane. Dec 21, 2014 unfortunately im not a physics professor, but i have been following the hyperloop story since elon musk first proposed the idea in 2012. I apologize in advance for my loose use of language and imperfect analogies. This paper describes the design of hyperloop trains.
Elon musk released a white paper called hyperloop alpha, describing a system of podcars shooting through vacuum tubes at nearly 800 mph. Even musks white paper was often criticized to give oversimpli ed solutions. Elon musk details plans for highspeed urban hyperloop for. A new mode of transportation chetan ramesh ingale1 prof. Jan 29, 2017 elon musk speaks about hyperloop and tunneling at spacexs hyperloop pod competition. The hyperloop pod competition is an annual competition sponsored by spacex from 20152019 in which a number of student and nonstudent teams participate to designand for some, builda subscale prototype transport vehicle in order to demonstrate technical feasibility of various aspects of the hyperloop concept.
Elon musk speaks about hyperloop and tunneling at spacexs. However, it was entrepreneur elon musk who really reignited interest in the concept with his hyperloop alpha paper in august 20, which set out how a modern system would work. Elon musk, creator of the idea of the hyperloop, founded boring co. Jun 06, 2019 although the hyperloop concept is not new, its main features were revealed in 20 by elon musk, founder of tesla and space x, with the publication of his hyperloop alpha white paper. Hyperloop is firstly proposed by elon musk and a team of engineers from tesla motors and the space exploration technologies corporation in august 20. The hyperloop is musk s plan for a new transportation system thats faster and cheaper than a highspeed train. But just how practical is this pod that shoots you through a vacuum at 700mph. In addition to musks paper, several key research questions were identified in a. In elon musk the mind behind tesla, spacex, solarcity. Why is elon musk credited with inventing the hyperloop. Teslas own hyperloop pod sets record with 220 mph test. Hyperloop one, one of the companies developing the. Elon musks hyperloop could revolutionise public transport. Since then, the concept and the technology has been ambitiously adopted and advanced at pace, by a.
Progress in the space usually involves incremental steps to suit the places weve already built. Hyperloop is a concept developed by space x and tesla founder elon musk for ultrafast intercity travel. Elon musk, richard branson bet on hyperloop and space cnbc. In this study, the initial route, preliminary design, and logistics of the. Elon musk unveils plans for hyperloop transport system. Chopade2 1student 2assistant professor 1,2department of mechanical engineering 1,2pimpri chinchwad college of engineering and research, ravet pune abstracthyperloop is a new mode of transport that seeks.
Mar, 2020 paper by mark sakowski, the next contender in high speed transport elon musks hyperloop, 2016. Elon musk is building a hyperloop, and its great news for. The second section is for those with a technical background. After almost a year of speculation musk outlined his plans for the system monday in a blog post and a 57page pdf. Elon musk had recently published hyperloop alpha, a white paper in which he outlined the technical components of a new mode of transportation that was faster, greener, and more energyefficient than any existing modethe hyperloop. Tech entrepreneur elon musk detailed his vision for making highspeed underground travel via the hyperloop a reality in urban areas, prioritizing the. Dec 19, 2018 elon musks latest invention hyperloop is racing ahead, and is expected to be ready for commercial operations by 2021.
Did elon musks hyperloop paper published aug 12 meet your. Elon musk first detailed the hyperloop concept in a paper published in august, 20, which called for aluminum pods capable of transporting. In 2012 in an interview with pandodaily he was asked the question do you think you are crazy and he replied i. I dont believe in elon musk by miles mathis first published october 5, 2015 as usual, this is an opinion piece, protected by the us constitution. How will hyperloop systems affect society and transport. Hyperloop is a new mode of transport first envisioned by tesla and space ceo elon musk. The vacuumsealed pod transport tube, first outlined by elon musk in a 20 white paper, turned heads. This paper addresses three overarching system challenges related to the passenger pod sizing. Aug 16, 2019 however, it was entrepreneur elon musk who really reignited interest in the concept with his hyperloop alpha paper in august 20, which set out how a modern system would work and how much it. Opensource conceptual sizing models for the hyperloop. Oct 03, 2018 hyperloop is a technology that gained popularity after billionaire elon musk. Hyperloop alpha intro the first several pages will attempt to describe the design in everyday language, keeping numbers to a minimum and avoiding formulas and jargon. Elon musks hyperloop hype ignores practical problems on.
Research paper elon musk jeffrey merkers eportfolio. Elon musk has published an initial paper on his proposed highspeed transportation system called the hyperloop. Elon musk promises new hyperloop tunnel after speed record. How elon musks dream is becoming a reality february 8, 2016 in its simplest form, the hyperloop is an elevated tube that runs for hundreds of miles between cities, propelling. Transpod is stated to contain further developments beyond hyperloop. Pdf hyperloop is often described as the fifth mode of transportation but, as the. The hyperloop concept was popularised by elon musk in a white paper hyperloop. Samuel pierpont langley built flying machines, including an unmanned version that was catapultlaunched, and flew 34s of a mile. Sep 20, 2017 elon musk s hyperloop technology has the potential to revolutionise the way we travel. But when many people who believe in that vision come together, they remove the barriers to progress.
The transpod system uses moving electromagnetic fields to propel the vehicles with stable levitation off the bottom surface, rather than compressed air. This technology was first proposed by elon musk with teams from his company tesla and spacex. On the aerodynamic design of the hyperloop concept max m. Elon musk is back in the loop four years after encouraging anyone and everyone to try making his crazy hyperloop idea work, the silicon valley titan has decided hes not too busy to do it. Elon musk, hyperloop, hyperloop alpha document, hyperloop technical design analysis, hyperloop feasibility analysis, hyperloop comprehensive database, hcdb publisher spacex collection hyperloopdatabase. Aug 12, 20 an illustration from elon musk s technical paper shows the proposed geometry for the hyperloop passenger capsule, housing several distinct systems within the outer mold line. The hyperloop or something similar is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart.
Hyperloop will reinvent transportation to eliminate the barriers of distance and time. Elon musk is a businessmanstar of the 21st century. The vacuumsealed pod transport tube, first outlined by elon musk in a 20 white paper, turned heads with its promise of blistering speeds of up to. As the benefits of the hyperloop are obvious high speed, use of renewable energy, comparably low cost, i wi. First hyperloop passenger capsule unveiled bloomberg. Aug 12, 20 the hyperloop or something similar is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. Its a lot quicker than the 2 hours and 40 minutes of the rival technology, a proposed highspeed train.
Tum hyperloop has set a new hyperloop speed record of 463 kmh at the fourth annual spacex hyperloop pod competition. Get the latest 2018 project journals, most relevant pdf, seminar reports and ppt to learn the working design of this revolutionizing concept. Hyperloop one will move people and goods, and unlock unprecedented value for governments, businesses, and consumers. Elon musk hyperloop dreams slam into cold hard reality. Evolution and prospects of highspeed, maglev and hyperloop 2nd part. The concept of travelling through tubes with hardly any air in it, thus reducing the aerodynamic drag and enabling travel at high speeds, has been around since the early 19th century. Elon musk released a whitepap er titled hyperloop alpha paper to generate conversati on. This paper critically examines hyperloop, a new mode of transportation where.
Models for the hyperloop passenger pod in this paper. If you prefer the mainstream reading, you can have it. It is remarkable that musk does not ask for any license fees on the proposed concept open source concept. Today, the hyperloop concept usually refers to a wellknown white paper published in 20 by elon musk in collaboration with a joint team from tesla and spacex. Nov 23, 2017 all your questions about the hyperloop, answered. What do physics professors think about elon musks hyperloop. Aug, 20 im glad it included a section about safety, but what worries me most is the idea that the air bearing system might fail and a car would touch the walls of the tube at high speed, which would probably lead to catastrophe for the car. There was some of what we expected, and a few surprises, too. Elon musk released a white paper called hyperloop alpha, describing a system of podcars. Hyperloop, as described conceptually by elon musk of spacex and tesla in an. He released a 57page pdf that outlines his plan for the hyperloop. With a high enough altitude and the right geometry, the sonic boom.