{"id":19873,"date":"2015-12-08T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/california-firm-hyperloop-to-test-engine-in-southern-nevada"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:06","slug":"california-firm-hyperloop-to-test-engine-in-southern-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/california-firm-hyperloop-to-test-engine-in-southern-nevada","title":{"rendered":"California firm Hyperloop to test engine in southern Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-firm-hyperloop-to-test-engine-in-southern-nevada.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A California company with visions of building a futuristic transportation system to one day zip people and packages at nearly the speed of sound announced Tuesday it is building a test facility in southern Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperloop Technologies Inc. and the Nevada governor\u2019s office said the 50-acre facility at a fledgling North Las Vegas business park will test a linear electric motor at speeds of about 335 mph\u2014about half the speed envisioned in a full-scale system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision represents another major milestone in our journey to bring Hyperloop to commercial reality,\u201d Rob Lloyd, CEO of the Los Angeles-based company, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-12-hyperloop-super-rapid-north-las-vegas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California company with visions of building a futuristic transportation system to one day zip people and packages at nearly the speed of sound announced Tuesday it is building a test facility in southern Nevada. Hyperloop Technologies Inc. and the Nevada governor\u2019s office said the 50-acre facility at a fledgling North Las Vegas business park [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69053,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions\/69053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}