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NEWS 33 CompositesWorld.com Hyperloop An Emerald Performance Materials Company Thermoset Specialties Web: www.cvc.emeraldmaterials.com Email: CTS.info@emeraldmaterials.com PH: 1-856-533-3000 Get more mileage from your composite materials. Our complete product line also includes EPALLOY® and ERISYS® specialty resins and modifiers. Create tougher, lighter, more performance efficient composites. HyPox® resins, OMICURE® curing agents and Hypro® polymers enhance composite performance, offering excellent stability, adhesion and temperature properties. The WARR Hyperloop prototype was made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) with support of carbon fiber materials provided by SGL Carbon SE (Wiesbaden, Germany). On May 12, this year, Musk's Hyperloop One (Los Angeles) startup announced the successful comple- tion of the world's first full-systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum envi- ronment at the company's recently completed test track, DevLoop, in the Nevada desert. The aluminum-and- carbon-composite vehicle, measuring 28 ft in length, coasted above the first portion of the track for 5.3 seconds using magnetic levitation and reached nearly 2Gs of acceleration, while achieving the Phase 1 target speed of 70 mph. The company's next target is speeds upward of 250 mph. "Hyperloop One has accomplished what no one has done before by successfully testing the first full-scale Hyperloop system. By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you're flying at 200,000 ft in the air," says Shervin Pishevar, co-founder and executive chairman of Hyperloop One. "For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now." Hyperloop One will continue to run tests at DevLoop in the coming months to validate its next-generation components and software. Musk's Hyperloop One effort, however, faces competition. Founded in 2013 by California- based JumpStarter Inc., U.S.- based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. (HTT) has raised more than US$100 million. Co-founders Dirk Ahlborn (CEO) and Bibop G. Gresta (chairman) report that Spain-based Carbures Europe SA. is offering pod fuselage help. HTT is focused on building a functional 5-mile test track in Quay Valley, CA, US, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and says Slovakia has agreed to serve as a development hub for a Hyperloop line connect- ing Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest. Moreover, HTT is also researching an east-west line between Bratislava and Kosice, Slovakia's two largest cities, on opposite ends of the country.