A Canadian company has unveiled plans for a fully electric train-style vehicle which could travel at 1,000 kilometers per hour and, it claims, would cost less than a plane ticket to travel on.
FluxJet was announced by TransPod in its home city of Toronto last month, with a scaled-down one-tonne version of what it terms the"plane-train hybrid" featuring in a live demonstration of its capabilities.
The idea is that the train will operate exclusive on a network system dubbed the TransPod Line, with stations in major cities and key locations. FluxJet boasts travel speeds faster than a plane and three times that of a high-speed train, meaning that it would cut the journey time down to 45 minutes.Earlier this year the TransPod announced that it has so far secured $550 million finance for the endeavor. The project is currently in the research and development phase, focusing on environmental assessment and land acquisition.
The network will transport up to 54 passengers and 10 tonnes of cargo at a time in FluxJet vehicles, with trains departing every two minutes, according to TransPod's vision.The company says the new system will help cut highway traffic massively, as well as reducing CO2 emissions by around 636,000 tonnes per year.
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