This was shortly followed by the announcement they would start construction of the first commercial Hyperloop system in Abu Dhabi in Q3 of 2019.Īlexandra said: “There is clearly a movement to make the Hyperloop more than just a pipedream and the investment of time, money and resources to open the first commercial route is well underway. While not quite the 760 miles per hour touted for the Hyperloop, is a step in the right direction to Elon Musk vision.Īnother company in the race to make the Hyperloop UPV team’s predictions a reality is Hyperloop TT who unveiled its passenger carrying pods in October 2018. Which, running on a similar system to the Hyperloop, would propel passengers 155 miles per hour. would be opening its first test tunnel – the Hawthorne test tunnel – in December 2018. Meanwhile, in October 2018, Elon Musk announced that the Boring Co. This prediction could be a reality even sooner than this with Virgin’s Hyperloop One estimated to start running commercial routes by as soon as 2021/2022. However, the question remains – when will it ever start running?Īccording to the Hyperloop UPV team, we could be seeing the first Hyperloop commercial cargo line running in just six years (2025) and the first passenger-carrying Hyperloop in just over a decade (2030). Hyperloop is probably one of the most discussed ‘future of transport’ topics, with Elon Musk and, until October 2018, Richard Branson leading the charge to its implementation. Therefore, making it possible for areas that aren’t suitable or able to run on purely electrified rail lines to reduce and in the near future completely stop their CO 2 emissions.” Development of Hyperloop “Additionally, the development of hydrogen-powered trains, and more networks looking to add them to their stock could turn the rail system carbon neutral even sooner. “Electrifying the UK’s and world’s rail networks is a process already well underway and something that, with the increasing evolution of ‘direct to the network’ renewable power sources, could soon be expanded to more areas of the world. Meanwhile, in China and Germany, hydrogen-powered trains have already been transporting passengers.Īlexandra Berger, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, EMEA at RS Components, said: “The Hyperloop Pod teams predicted that we would be running on renewable energies by 2030, and it is really quite impressive to think that many of the technologies needed to make this a reality are already in progress, or in place, in some parts of the world. In the UK, Alstom and Eversholt Rail announced that hydrogen trains could be running on the British rail system by as early as 2022, which shows how soon the technology could be rolled out. Burning hydrogen with oxygen, the combustion produces huge amounts of power but unlike their CO 2 emitting diesel cousins, produces pure water as a byproduct. In these instances, the development of hydrogen trains is likely to be the way forward. While wind turbines and solar panel technology can be used for parts of the network that are suitable for electric lines some, especially remote areas, will not be able to benefit from the implementation. Developing new ‘sleeper’ panels, which will sit on the tracks and turn light from the sun into energy for trains and the local area, reducing the need for fossil fuels on the network. Solar powerĪn alternative to wind power is solar and one British firm, Bankset Energy, is pioneering the way. One example of railways running on renewable energy sources can be found in the Netherlands where the NS Dutch Railways network has been running entirely on wind-generated power since 1 January 2017, using wind turbines from energy firm Eneco, to power the network of the entire nation. In the predictions from the Hyperloop UPV and Éirloop teams, they estimate that by 2030 all ground transport will be running on renewable energy, including rail transport.
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