# [Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers](http://ifdl.jp/akita/class/tte/index.php?20%2F06)



* Hyperloop
* A hyperloop is an unproven transportation system in which people travel in a vehicle in a vacuum tube at speeds as high as 600 mph (1000 km/hr).
* Technology
* magnetic levitation (磁気浮上)
* vacuum tube
* Testing in Nov. 2020
* Virgin Hyperloop's pod only reached 100 mph on the track
* Virgin Hyperloop says its track is 500 meters long, limiting how fast the pods can go.
* Josh Giegel, Virgin Hyperloop's Chief Technology Officer, and Sara Luchian, its Director of Passenger Experience, took the first ride.
* Speed
* Giegel told CNN Business that hyperloop pods can travel at the speed of aircraft but with a fraction of the energy consumption.
* Envisions
* pods that seat between 25 and 30 people
* Carrying tens of thousands of passengers per hour.
* Above ground or below ground
* Hyperloop systems can run either above ground or below ground, but so far the company has focused on above-ground projects
* Tunneling below ground can be time consuming and expensive.
* Expensive cost
* a six-mile, $500 million
* Future schedule
* Hyperloop system will be certified in 2025 or 2026, and that we could see hyperloop projects before the decade ends.
* History
* Virgin Hyperloop isn't alone in its interest in hyperloops. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a concept for such a system in 2013
* in 2017, Musk tweeted that he had "verbal govt approval" to build a tunnel from Washington, DC to New York, in which trips could take 29 minutes. The first leg of the project is mired in an environmental review, and there's no clear timeline for it being completed.


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