In Sweden, planned speed trains that can travel at 300 km per hour. In Slovakia, focusing instead on Elon Musks hyper-loop, double the top speed. If all goes according to plan, it is super fast train clearly already in 2020.
The tech-festival South by Southwest in Austin held many panel debates on intelligent transport, both for self-driving cars, but also on the so-called “hyper-loop”.
It was three years ago that Tesla founder Elon Musk released a 57- page document on the train of the future could take passengers rushed between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The super-fast train would not go on rails like regular trains, but transported in a vacuum tube of metal. Elon Musk called solution “hyper-loop”.
Since then, several companies tried to build the new means of transport in reality.
One of the companies at the forefront is a California-based HTT, Hyper Loop Transportation Technologies. The company is now in the process of building an 8 km long test track in Quay Valley, located midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The tube is scheduled to be completed in early 2019 with the hope that it will be extended between the two cities.
HTT think we will have several hyperlooptåg within ten years. Photo: HTT
Travelling with a hyper loop from Los Angeles to San Francisco would take more than half an hour in comparison with the current travel time of five hours. According to HTT’s CEO Dirk Ahlborn, a hyper loop also be a much cheaper alternative to a fast train on the same route.
If Hungary and Austria are okay with it, we will build a hyper loop that runs between Bratislava and Vienna and Bratislava to Budapest.
in Sweden, planned a fast train with the newly built railway between Stockholm and Malmö, with a price tag of 190-320 billion, according to one estimate by Trafikverket. The high speed train is planned to be ready for use in 2035 but as the technology is constantly updated, some skeptical about the expensive project. While there is no evidence that hyper loop will work or what the final bill for such a will.
In comparison with Sweden, Slovakia has bought the idea of a hyper loop and sinker. Dirk Ahlborn says that HTT, since a week ago, has an agreement with Slovakia to build a hyper loop that will be completed already in 2020.
“If Hungary and Austria’s okay with it, we will build a hyper loop that runs between Bratislava and Vienna and Bratislava to Budapest. “
” at the moment we have conversations with a 20 cities around the world, so we will see many more hyper loop going forward, “said Dirk Ahlborn.
Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyper Loop Transportation Technologies. Photo: Jesper Frisk
How is it that you have chosen Slovakia?
“Slovakia is one of the most innovative countries. They want to be innovative and they want to be part of creating the new technology, “said Dirk Ahlborn when Di Digital meets him at SXSW.
The Nordic countries have HTT’s competitor Hyper Loop Technologies offered to contribute money to a feasibility study to build a hyper loop between Norrtälje and Turku. According to Risto Penttilä, CEO of the Finnish Central Chamber of Commerce, will such a solution be cheaper, greener and faster – if the technology works.
“The decisive factor is how the first tests succeed in the United States. If they succeed, it is realistic to Finland and Sweden can be among the first to take Hyper Loop technology in use, “said R isto Penttilä earlier this year.
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Dirk Ahlborn does not exclude cooperation with Sweden in the future.
“Say to your people call my people,” he says and laughs.
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