Commuting at 700km an hour by hyperloop takes a step closer to reality with successful test run

Hardt says it had a successful first test of its hyperloop prototype at its test centre in the Netherlands.

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00:00We were able to levitate the vehicle, also turn on the guidance system and the propulsion

00:21system.

00:22Then we moved the vehicle to our launch position, about 20 meters into the tube, and then we

00:27launched it with an acceleration similar to that of a metro, up to a top speed of about

00:3330 kilometers an hour, about 100 meters in the pipe, and that's when we reached a successful

00:38test.

00:47The most difficult things that we are doing now is to test all of these functions together,

00:52levitation, propulsion, guidance, all of those functions we are now capable of executing

00:59as an orchestra, making them work together.

01:01Moreover, what makes this system unique is that it has a switch, so this is not just

01:06a test bench of Hyperloop propulsion technology, it's actually a test bench of a whole network.

01:12Here we can test how to take a turn, how to merge, how to split platoons of vehicles,

01:18so here we are really testing what a Hyperloop network could look like.