Sentences with phrase «hyperloop project»

Also, there is some talk of improved infrastructure locally, e.g. extending the commuter rail to Central Falls, and even a Hyperloop project from Providence to Boston.

Although, as of now, the main intent of the startup is to prove the viability of the Hyperloop project, while at the same time developing something that can be called more than a tech demo.

It's where one of its biggest investors is located and a current hyperloop project is being evaluated.

A hyperloop project for the Kingdom could be announced later this year, he said.

He's most famous for trying to colonize Mars and his Hyperloop project aims to send people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a half hour.

The cost of this Hyperloop project is likely to be astronomically high.

He also has investments in U.S. tech ventures, including the Virgin One Hyperloop project,

Several other hyperloop projects have been mooted in the UAE, but so far none has been officially approved.

Not exact matches

Ahlborn will discuss the project's progress, the collaboration of the project's partners, and what it takes to build the first passenger - ready version of the Hyperloop.

Elon Musk's «Hyperloop» concept has caught the world's attention, but many are questioning the financial and technical feasibility of the project.

While Musk has estimated the Hyperloop might cost upwards of $ 6 billion to construct, Ahlborn has publicly stated he expects the project to cost $ 16 billion.

Ahlborn has stated he has more than 400 investors willing to buy into the project — and says the Hyperloop could potentially sell energy by producing more power than it needs — but even at the lowest possible estimate, it's unclear whether the project would be able to attract enough funding to get off the ground.

Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar says that President Donald Trump is «a builder» and hopefully, his leadership will help accelerate infrastructure projects.

Hyperloop expects to invest $ 121 million in the Vegas project, the report said.

On Monday, Virgin Hyperloop One (one Los Angeles - based company that's developing the technology) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled a prototype of a Hyperloop pod for the project.

One of Musk's side projects, The Boring Company, is exploring more efficient ways of digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles, and the entrepreneur recently said he's now looking to build the hyperloop himself.

We didn't ask about that, nor did we ask participants if they'd ever heard of SpaceX or the Hyperloop, Musk's other high - profile projects.

According to USA Today, Hyperloop One will weigh local, state, and federal government's support of particular projects — and thus, their likelihood of getting funding — before deciding whether to move forward with them.

In all, the two projects would cost Hyperloop One in the region of $ 11bn and $ 4.8 bn respectively.

For the first time since introducing the Hyperloop concept paper in 2013, visionary Elon Musk dips his hands in his own pet project.

According to Wired, the project also just announced that it has garnered up to 400 team members to work on the Hyperloop.

According to an announcement from Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) on Thursday, the project has added to its roster of engineers and architects.

They included SpaceX, the spaceflight company; Tesla, the electric - car manufacturer; SolarCity, a Tesla subsidiary that provides solar energy; and Hyperloop, the project to build a cross-country, high - speed transportation system.

Ahlborn proposed the project to SpaceX and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. was born with the hopes of building the first commercially viable Hyperloop system in 10 years.

This morning, Dirk Ahlborn, the CEO and cofounder of JumpStartFund, the group overseeing Hyperloop, released a 68 - page crowdstorm document outlining their progress on the project, as well as new artwork of the train and its passenger - carrying pods.

Sure, there's a risk involved with working on a project that could yield practically nothing — but the excitement of the expanding project team and multiple investors has started to give the Hyperloop a more realistic shape.

Now, Musk has founded a new division called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which has employed hundreds of experts and researchers to work on the project.

Reactions at the time ranged from excitement to skepticism to outright disbelief — Musk was even accused of sabotaging the high - speed rail project for profit, despite his statement that he had no plans to develop the Hyperloop commercially.

US - based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has announced that its superfast transportation project has entered the production...

By comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the Hyperloop.

Beyond the Model 3 and SpaceX, the list of new projects Musk unveiled or began this year is long — underground hyperloops, electric trucks, a new roadster — and the goals he is attempting to meet in the next few years are lofty.

From renewable energy to high speed rail, hyperloop technology and driverless cars — a coming wave of projects will require lots of legal expertise

Based on the most recent developments to Hyperloop Transportation Technologies project, it can be said that the dream of developing a high - speed transportation system is turning solid day by day.

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Hyperloop, a project with several big names attached to it — Elon Musk and Shervin Pishevar to name a few — has had its shares of setbacks.

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