{"id":146238,"date":"2022-09-13T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/this-canadian-company-wants-to-build-a-train-plane-hybrid-that-can-go-620-miles-per-hour-take-a-look"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:22:34","slug":"this-canadian-company-wants-to-build-a-train-plane-hybrid-that-can-go-620-miles-per-hour-take-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/this-canadian-company-wants-to-build-a-train-plane-hybrid-that-can-go-620-miles-per-hour-take-a-look","title":{"rendered":"This Canadian company wants to build a train-plane \u2018hybrid\u2019 that can go 620 miles per hour\u2014take a look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MmtwfXG2MfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Move over, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/02\/hyperloop-will-revolutionize-transportation-in-post-coronavirus-world.html\">Elon Musk and Richard Branson<\/a>: A Canadian company wants to join the fight for better high-speed train travel.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto-based TransPod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transpod.com\/press-release\/fluxjet-unveiling\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently unveiled plans<\/a> for a \u201cFluxJet,\u201d a fully-electric transportation system that\u2019s \u201ca hybrid between an aircraft and a train.\u201d The project, currently in the conceptual stage, would involve 82-foot-long, magnetically levitated trains that would carry passengers at roughly 621 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/guides\/how-fast-do-commerical-planes-fly\/#:~:text=Cruising,(478%20to%20521%20knots).\" target=\"_blank\">faster<\/a> than a commercial jet, and roughly three times the speed of most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/07\/why-is-there-no-high-speed-rail-in-the-us.html\">high-speed trains<\/a> \u2014 with zero emissions, no less. The FluxJet would rely on \u201ccontactless power transmission,\u201d where the train would pull power from the existing electric grid through magnetic fields, the company says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Elon Musk and Richard Branson: A Canadian company wants to join the fight for better high-speed train travel. Toronto-based TransPod recently unveiled plans for a \u201cFluxJet,\u201d a fully-electric transportation system that\u2019s \u201ca hybrid between an aircraft and a train.\u201d The project, currently in the conceptual stage, would involve 82-foot-long, magnetically levitated trains that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}