Sentences with phrase «spacex hyperloop»

Speaking at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition at Texas A&M University on Friday, Foxx called the hyperloop a «very solid idea» and a «special moment in transportation» — one having «the potential for a moonshot» — as reported by The Verge.

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WARR Hyperloop, the student - run team that won SpaceX's competition, hit 201 mph on the same track.

The ultimate goal of the Boring Company is to build an underground tunnel network that can support cars or a Hyperloop, but currently it's digging a test tunnel in the SpaceX parking lot.

Musk says he won't be able to build the Hyperloop himself, because of his duties at SpaceX and Tesla.

Musk — who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar - energy company — unveiled what he has called the «alpha» version of the Hyperloop plan in a blog post on Monday.

The demonstration was built by SpaceX to showcase what types of designs we should expect from students competing in the Hyperloop Pod Competition.

The top teams will build their pods and test them at the world's first Hyperloop Test Track, being built adjacent to SpaceX's Hawthorne, California, headquarters.

Teams developing pods to work on the superfast transport system hyperloop are heading to California to test their devices at SpaceX.

Next week, Musk's SpaceX is hosting a capsule design competition where high school and college students will present designs in hopes of winning a $ 50,000 prize and the opportunity to work with HTT competitor Hyperloop Technologies.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk released the original Hyperloop white paper in 2013, describing a system that would efficiently shoot hovering pods full of cargo or passengers through a depressurized tube at up to 700 mph.

The hyperloop, a catch - all term describing the technology that's been developed by numerous companies since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk crowdsourced the idea in 2012, resembles a bullet train that can theoretically travel at velocities nearing the speed of sound (about 700 miles per hour).

Also sitting in on the interview were CTO Brogan BamBrogan, formerly an engineer with SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Chrysler; and Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of both Hyperloop Tech and Sherpa Ventures.

Musk, of SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) fame, recently tweeted that he had received «verbal» approval from the U.S. government to build a «Hyperloop,» a train system that would enable travel between Washington, D.C. and New York in just 29 minutes, some time in the near future.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors says he wants to create something called the Hyperloop, a super-fast way to travel.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk promoted the idea of the hyperloop in 2013.

More than 20 teams developing pods to work on the hyperloop, the superfast transport system, are heading to California this weekend to test their devices at SpaceX's test track.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

The Hyperloop's potential velocity has helped it captivate the public's imagination ever since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk popularized the concept in 2012.

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.

SpaceX's second Hyperloop Pod Competition ended last weekend and WARR team won with a top speed of 201 mph (324 km / h) achieved in 0.8 mile in SpaceX's 1 - mile long near vacuum tube.

Now Elon Musk shows what a machine built by Tesla and SpaceX can do in the same hyperloop.

Elon Musk and his company, SpaceX, have finally chosen one of the major firms that will be integral to the construction of the Hyperloop.

SpaceX is building a test track for the Hyperloop high - speed rail that could transport passengers from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes.

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.

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The overall victors together with other awardees will develop the Hyperloop design in the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

But on Jan. 15th of this year, Musk shook up the field when he announced plans to build a Hyperloop test track and hold a contest in summer 2016 at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif..

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.

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SpaceX, which technically owns the Hyperloop program, has already invited a cadre of 29 college teams to a competition in Los Angeles to present their working concepts on a company track.

Arriving at the shop and passing the familiar Tesla Design Center, SpaceX's Falcon 9 on display and a near - complete Hyperloop test track, I come across two Model S vehicles staged side - by - side that couldn't look more different.

Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies.

SpaceX, in January 2017, announced the first of its kind Hyperloop Pod competition in which the company offered its Hyperloop transportation services to 27 teams from across the country and the world at the SpaceX track.