Sentences with phrase «levitated pod»

The next - generation transportation system, which was initially conceived by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, utilizes a linear electric motor to accelerate and decelerate an electromagnetically levitated pod through a low - pressure tube.

Those teams have spent much of the past year creating designs for the levitating pods that may someday carry passengers at up to 700 miles per hour through a low - pressure tube between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

This portable speaker accompanied by a pod levitates due to the clever use of magnets.