This Pune man travelled at 170 kms/hr on a levitating pod... we could be next!
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00:00Pegasus, this is Capcom. Prepare for launch. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, launch.
00:10This is real. This is as real as it gets. These were definitely the most glorious 15 seconds of my life.
00:16You can never forget them. Never, ever. Hive Loop is real.
00:301,000 kilometers an hour. That's how fast it can go.
00:40Obviously, if you think about it, depending on the topology and route alignment and passenger comfort, you might dial that speed down.
00:47But the capability is, yes, you can just go 1,000 kilometers an hour.
01:00The reason why we need a vacuum structure is because what we're trying to do is we're trying to get rid of air resistance.
01:14So now you've created the structure and enclosed space in which you don't have a lot of aerodynamic track.
01:19Now you have these magnets which repel when they are moving at a fast...
01:23If you put magnets on a track and you move them really quickly on that with high speed, they repel and they create a repulsive force, which is what lifts the board.
01:31So I went to 170 kilometers an hour. That's in 300 meters in six seconds.
01:36The total travel distance was around 400 meters. It took around 15 seconds.
01:41Out of it, the first six seconds was the acceleration part of it. Then there was coasting and stopping.
01:46We are looking at a bunch of different opportunities.
01:56So the one that's actually furthest ahead in the road is Pune-Mumbai.
02:01We've been working on that for a while. And recently, NITI Aayog also created a panel to review this technology.
02:11So that's a great big step for us.
02:16Right now, there are around 70 million passenger trips happening in a year.
02:26Hyderabad has the capacity to do 200 million passenger trips in a year in the same space.
02:31There are huge amounts of socioeconomic benefits at the end of the day.
02:38Apart from the fact that you're creating this awesome way for people to get from one place to another,
02:44it would actually cause a lot of budding new industries for manufacturing Hyperloop.
02:49And then in that sense, India would just lead the world in manufacturing Hyperloop.
03:02The late 2020s is when you could see a commercial deployment in India.
03:08It's going to happen fairly quick than what you would imagine it to be.
03:15Josh Geigel, our CTO, he started the company in a garage pretty much six years ago.
03:22And well, when we started off, our first thing was, well, how do you develop the propulsion system for this?
03:28So when I joined Hyperloop as an intern, that is when I got this great opportunity to work on an entirely new propulsion system that is electric.
03:41So Hyperloop, it's a sustainable form of transport, so we don't use any form of gas. It's an electric mode of transport.
03:50I'm really proud to represent India, really proud to represent Pune, and I'm really proud to represent Maharashtra in this endeavor.
03:58And I really think that Hyperloop is a viable solution in between Pune and Mumbai.
04:03Super pumped about it. It is real. We are doing it. We will do it in India.
04:07It's going to be pretty awesome.
04:10Super pumped about it.