Hyperloop One, the world’s first new mode of transportation, has announced that it has successfully completed the Phase 1 with full sistems tests in the Nevada Desert where the company also has unveiled the first prototype of Hyperloop One Pod.  

Hyperloop One, founded and developed by South African-born Canadian-American business magnate and investor Elon Musk in 2014, was developed to change the mode of transportation at high-speeds through low-pressure tubes by using new type of moving vehicles.

The Phase 1 test is the only first stage of a multi-phase program and was privately conducted on May 12, 2017 at the company's test track, "DevLoop," in the Nevada Desert. In its first test, the vehicle coasted above the first portion of the track for 5.3 seconds using magnetic levitation and reached nearly 2Gs of acceleration, while achieving the Phase 1 target speed of 70mph. The company is now entering the next campaign of testing, which will target speeds of 250 mph. 

If all the tests are passed successfully and become fully operational, the hyperloop system will be able to reduce travel time between San Francisco and Los Angeles to 30 minutes. 

"Hyperloop One has accomplished what no one has done before by successfully testing the first full scale Hyperloop system. By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you're flying at 200,000 feet in the air," said Shervin Pishevar, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One. 

"For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now."

In this historic moment, Hyperloop One tested all the system's components, including its highly efficient motor, vehicle suspension, magnetic levitation, electromagnetic braking, vacuum pumping system and more, proving the full system's components operate successfully as a single integrated unit in a vacuum. Nearly 200 engineers, fabricators, welders, etc. dedicated thousands of hours to make this test successful.

Hyperloop One's first prototype Pod that will work within the integrated system

In addition to announcing the private test, Hyperloop One also unveiled the prototype of its Pod that will work within the integrated system. Using electromagnetic propulsion and magnetic levitation, the Pod will transport passengers and cargo inside the tube. 

Hyperloop One's Pod is the only vehicle in the world that, with the company's proprietary linear electric motor, achieves autonomous high-speed propulsion and levitation in a controlled low-pressure environment. Made of structural aluminum and a lightweight carbon fiber, the shell measures 28 feet long.

Hyperloop One will continue to run tests at DevLoop in the coming months to validate its next-generation components and software. The next phase of testing will showcase the Pod gliding along a longer track at faster speeds.

"Our team is the only team that is actually making Hyperloop happen, and we've spent more time testing a Hyperloop system than anyone in the world," said Josh Giegel, co-founder and President of Engineering of Hyperloop One. 

"To make Hyperloop a reality, we built and tested the actual hardware, gathering valuable insight along the way. Now that we've tested our Hyperloop system, we know it works, and we're ready to deploy it to the rest of the world."

"Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world," continued Pishevar. 

"With Hyperloop One, the world will be cleaner, safer and faster. It's going to make the world a lot more efficient and will impact the ways our cities work, where we live and where we work. We'll be able to move between cities as if cities themselves are metro stops."

Last year, BIG unveiled new design for a new futuristic transportation system for Hyperloop One, connecting Dubai and Abu Dhabi in just 12-minutes. More recently, Hardt Global Mobility opened Europe's first Hyperloop test facility on the TU Delft campus. 

Hyperloop One is reinventing new modes of transportation by developing the world's first Hyperloop, an integrated structure to move passengers and cargo between two points immediately, safely, efficiently and sustainably. 

Elon Musk is also founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors and co-founder of PayPal - Musk first founded Hyperloop Technologies in a garage in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood in June 2014.

In December 2014, Hyperloop Technologies established an Innovation Campus in LA's downtown arts district. The industrial space, surrounded by artists, graffiti, and gritty railroad tracks, serves as an ideal location to innovate, design, and test the components of the Hyperloop.

Hyperloop One started its business by receiving a $8.5 million raised in Series A investment round. In December 2015, the company establishes the Apex Test And Safety site in the desert outside of North Las Vegas, Nevada. The company changed its name to Hyperloop One to underscore its status as the first and only company building a full-system Hyperloop. Hyperloop One also announced $80 million raised in a Series B investment round. 

In his Twitter page, Musk also confirmed that they received a verbal approval from the government to build an underground Hyperloop through these high speed steel tubes, reducing travel time to 29 min. between Washington and New York. 

"Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins," said Musk. 

"City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit elevators in each city," added Musk in his later tweet. 

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