Sentences with phrase «about hyperloop»

What about hyperloop or some med tech company?

We're talking about hyperloop technology.

«We think it's feasible to think about a hyperloop network that will connect Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah for cargo and passengers.»

Yes, Musk's choice of words was poor, but his brain is too busy thinking about Hyperloops and colonizing Mars to worry about how our puny human brains might misinterpret him, okay?

Not exact matches

Branson first started speaking with Hyperloop One about coming on board back in April, then came out to the Nevada desert the next month to see the rail in action.

Hyperloop One last year demonstrated a small scale test run that reached about 400 mph.

Robert Lloyd, Hyperloop One CEO, tell CNBC about the next generation of high - speed travel for Americans.

«It feels like there's some confusion between the company that's building something, and the company that has people talking about building something,» said Rob Lloyd, Hyperloop Tech's CEO.

underground Hyperloop route between New York and D.C., which are about 200 miles apart.

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).

Hyperloop could save, at most, a combined time of about 6 million minutes (12 years) across all commuters each day.

British tycoon Richard Branson - backed Virgin Hyperloop One is proposing to build a super-fast transportation system in India that would connect the city of Pune with the planned new airport in Mumbai in 25 minutes, saving about three hours.

Hyperloop One currently has about $ 160 million in funding, though it's looking to raise another $ 250 million sometime this year.

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.

Over the next few months, when Musk was asked about it, he said that when he had time he might publish an open - source version of this Hyperloop plan for others to work on, and meanwhile he offered more opaque clues as to what his idea was («a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun and an air - hockey table... if they had a three - way and had a baby somehow»), which inspired lots of online speculation, much of it deeply skeptical.

Musk originally believed a hyperloop connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would cost about $ 6bn, 10 times more than the $ 68bn the government is set to spend on a high - speed train line connecting the two cities.

For today, it's useful to just think about the impact of the Hyperloop on the airline industry.

A feasibility study on a system by Hyperloop One, commissioned by FS Links and carried out by public accounting company KPMG, reveals that a network connecting Sweden's Stockholm and Finland's Helsinki will cost about $ 19 billion, or $ 21 billion, to build.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a group of about a hundred engineers from around the world, have come together via the JumpStartFund crowdsourcing platform to pitch together their ideas for a working Hyperloop system in exchange for potential equity.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5 - mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.

Just how quickly will this initial Hyperloop be able to whiz town folks about the length of Quay?

It's about $ 20 million per mile to build HTT's version of the Hyperloop, according to Ahlborn — a fraction of the current cost of building high - speed rail in the U.S.

Musk estimated the cost of the SF - LA Hyperloop would be about US$ 6 billion, one tenth as costly as the proposed high speed rail serving those cities.