15 million euros for Hyperloop

15 million euros for Hyperloop

The Delft start-up company Hardt Hyperloop is receiving 15 million euros from the European Commission to develop plans for a super-fast transport system. Hardt Hyperloop, which was founded a few years ago by Delft students who had won a competition organised by SpaceX, wants to develop a transport system in which people travel in streamlined vehicles through vacuum tubes from city to city at lightning speed.

According to the entrepreneurs, speeds of over a thousand kilometres per hour are feasible. Hardt has previously received support from the Dutch government and the municipality of Groningen, among others. In 2023, the company wants to open a test centre there where the technology can be demonstrated.

^{The Hyperloop test stand in the Green Village on the TU Delft campus. (Photo: Justyna Botor)}