Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the Hyperloop take a look at observe at Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT) Madras in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai on Saturday, March 15, 2025.
The whole electronics of the nation’s hyperloop venture will likely be developed at ICF in Chennai, Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned.(Sansad TV)
Whereas interacting with mediapersons, the Union Minister defined how the venture will perform. He was standing in entrance of the tube, which is able to perform because the ‘track’ for the Hyperloop pods to function on.
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“Hyperloop is basically like a tube…There will be a vacuum inside the tube and the pod which will operate inside the tube will operate in a ‘levitation’ mode,” Vaishnaw mentioned.
Explaining what he means by the ‘levitation’ mode, the BJP chief mentioned, “There will be magnetic fields which raise the pod over the tracks. [The pod] does not move on the track. It basically goes up, then moves. That is the principle of hyperloop.”
He went on to name the pod the “transporting mechanism” and the tube the “transportation medium”.
He acknowledged that the Hyperloop venture at IIT Madras is presently at an experimental stage however “very good results are visible now”. “Maybe in a few years from now, we should have a good working model,” he mentioned.
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He additionally introduced that the complete electronics of the Avishkar Hyperloop will likely be developed on the Built-in Coach Manufacturing facility in Chennai. “ICF Chennai has a very strong electronics team because they are developing very large electronics for Vande Bharat and many other trainsets and engines. So they’re capable of designing new, smaller electronics which are required for this pod,” he mentioned.
What’s Hyperloop?
Elon Musk, founding father of Tesla and SpaceX, unveiled the concept of Hyperloop to the World via a White Paper – Hyperloop Alpha. It’s the fifth mode of transportation that strikes freight and folks shortly, safely and straight from the origin to vacation spot.
Passengers or cargos are loaded into the Hyperloop pod and accelerated step by step through electrical propulsion via a low-pressure tube. The proposed Hyperloop mannequin can obtain a prime velocity of over 1,200 kmph.
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It’s fully autonomous, secure, clear and enclosed. Extra importantly, Hyperloop is surroundings pleasant and would not name for a lot upkeep too.
Hyperloop has been “open-sourced” by Elon Musk and SpaceX to draw improvements and enhancements within the idea, thus optimising the expertise and bringing out the higher model of itself.