Next stop: the future
summary
Company claims a passenger trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes with a 750 mph target and plans a 3 km test loop at 700+ mph by end of next year. Team of ~70 is buying steel, designing vacuum tube manufacturing in situ, linear synchronous drive motors, levitation pods for passenger and freight, and filing IP. $26M of an $80M raise is closed; site location is being finalized with early projects eyed outside the US and three buildouts targeted to start in 2017 and approach completion by 2020.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introducing Hyperloop
- 1:07Elon Musk’s vision
- 2:56From Cisco to Hyperloop
- 3:58Company formation story
- 6:27Funding progress update
- 7:31Technical challenges ahead
- 9:14Test track location plans
- 10:59Global economic impact
- 14:07Real estate transformation
- 17:15Team and talent growth
- 18:19Elon Musk’s role
- 18:55Q&A and closing
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