With assistance from the Ministry of Railways, IIT Madras has now created India's first hyperloop test track, measuring 422 meters and enabling a high-speed train to move at over 1,000 km/h in a near-vacuum tube.
About 350 km may be travelled in 30 minutes, according to the hyperloop track. This implies that travellers can cover the approximately 300-kilometer journey from Delhi to Jaipur in less than 30 minutes if it is put into practice in the real world.
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “I think the time has come when, after the first two grants of a million dollars each, the third grant of one million dollars will be given to IIT Madras for further developing the hyperloop project.”
Additionally, he stated that after the technology has been fully tested and is ready, Indian Railways will begin the first commercial project. The Ministry of Railways provided funding for the project, which was constructed at the IIT Madras Campus and involves trains that could travel at speeds of up to Mach 1 via unique capsules in vacuum tubes.
The trains will be a component of an electromagnetically levitating pod inside a vacuum tube, which removes air drag and friction from conventional rails, allowing them to travel at such high speeds.
Stay tuned to know more about this incredible innovation.
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