Transpod Boondoogle Continues  test track location photo credit - Jean-Louis Mercier le populaire, france  It is time to do an update on the Canadian based company, Transpod, that is developing a hyperloop vehicle capable of going 1000 km/h. You can read previous posts on our High Speed Rail Canada website to give you background on the subject.. As you may recall Transpod had secured US$550 million in funding from a Chinese government owned company,China-East Resources Import & Export Company in cooperation with UK-based Broughton Capital Group. They had proposed to build a fully functional line between Edmonton-Calgary. In 2025 they will have a fully functional full scale vehicle testing on a test track there. Cost of the line is $23 billion. They are even discussing a Toronto-Montreal line. Transpod had stated in 2019 they were building a test track in Droux France and would begin testing in 2020. In 2022, nothing was built. In July 2022, Transpod unveiled their ⅓ size ...

Transpod Test Track - September 2022 In a previous article I have talked about three failed hyperloop systems. Elon Musk’s test track is now parking lot, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Virgin Hyperloop. We will now discuss Transpod, a Canadian based company with its own version of a hyperloop capable of going 1000 km/hr. Transpod had secured US$550 million in funding from a Chinese government owned company,China-East Resources Import & Export Company in cooperation with UK-based Broughton Capital Group. They are proposing to build a fully functional line between Edmonton-Calgary. In 2025 they will have a fully functional full scale vehicle testing on a test track there. Cost of the line is $23 billion. They are even discussing a Toronto-Montreal line. But with any unproven technology questions should be asked. DEADLINES MISSED Transpod Press Release, January 22, 2019 stated- They secured a building permit in 2018 for a test track and facility with Hyperloop Limoges to in...

  It seems unbelievable that Government of Alberta would support the Transpod, and their yet to be developed 1000 km/h technology, over high speed trains. Yet the governement has signed a memorandum of understanding  The province is not putting any taxpayers money into the project but will identify suitable test track for the project. The company has raised some money for the test track project. What is Transpod? Since their are no existing Transpod systems in the world and the technology has not been proven we can only speculate on this Jetsons style dream plan. According to their website the Transpod is: The TransPod vehicle is built like an airline jet fuselage, containing rows of seats inside. Passengers board from platforms at each station. Powered by electrically-driven magnetic propulsion, the vehicle departs, gently accelerates to full speed inside the TransPod tube infrastructure, and decelerates on approach to the final destination station.The TransPod tube system w...

Why Hyperloop is still a deadly scientific fantasy Conceptual image of inside a hyperloop pod. Can you say claustrophobic! With three test tracks and a empty passenger pod built the hyperloop hyperbole is building. What are the real dangers and challenges with the hyperloop theory? I like the simple definition of Hyperloop in RationalWiki - " It involves a tube evacuated to very low pressure in which pods are propelled forward, using magnets, at speeds in excess of 1000 km/h. In essence it is a pneumatic tube on steroids or a magnetically levitated train inside a vacuum tube." The technology currently does not exist except as a theoretical concept. In Canada, Transport Canada has begun a study to evaluate hyperloop. The fact is over 22 studies have been done on high speed rail in this country and we still have no high speed trains although it is a proven safe technology for over a half a century. So why spend taxpayers money on looking at hyperloop?  There ...