2024-01-03 13:59:13
India will launch its first Hyperloop-type magnetic levitation fast train demonstrator in Madras, to test solutions for transporting passengers and goods, steelmaker ArcelorMittal, project partner, announced on Wednesday.
Will the Hyperloop see the light of day? If some doubt it, line projects are being revealed in India with a first demonstrator in Madras. ArcelorMittal and ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel Materials are partnering with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) as well as student teams and TuTR Hyperloop, a start-up incubated at ITT, to develop this project which will be the “first infrastructure Hyperloop test in Asia”, indicates a press release from the steelmaker.
A fast magnetic levitation train will be tested for the transport of passengers and goods, ArcelorMittal said on Wednesday.
Hyperloop is a futuristic means of transportation imagined by Elon Musk. Several start-ups have been working on this project for more than a decade but without any operational line to date. It consists of circulating pressurized capsules, held in the air by magnets, in a low-pressure tube. It could theoretically reach a speed of 1200km/h.
Tested at 200 km/hour
ArcelorMittal will provide the steel, as well as engineering, design and project management teams for this first line. The test will be conducted at the Thaiyur campus in the suburbs of Madras (Chennai), with the support of the Ministry of Rail Transport.
A 400 meter tube is planned for which ArcelorMittal will supply 400 tonnes of steel. It is in this tube that capsules will be tested at speeds of up to 200 km/hour. The demonstrator should be operational “by the end of the first quarter of 2024”, specifies the press release, without indicating the amounts of the investments.
“This dream collaboration between government, academia and industry has the potential to create efficient, sustainable and affordable mass mobility technology in India and for the world,” said Aravind S. Bharadwaj, co-founder of the start-up TuTR Hyperloop, cited in the press release.
ArcelorMittal and the Madras Institute of Technology have already collaborated to jointly identify solutions for decarbonizing the industry.
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