Tesla founder Elon Musk : Alpha version of Hyperloop comes in August

Hyperloop with Tesla founder Elon Musk wants to get close to the people a new form of transportation. From the East to the West Coast of the USA in an hour, faster than by plane. The alpha version of the new means of transport is on 12 August presented. Here you will find out what it will turn right.

People are shot to their destination by a pneumatic tube system. Thus Tesla and PayPal founder Elon Musk wants to influence the individual revolutionary. Now one might think that the man has seen too many science fiction movies or suffering from an overdose of "Futurama", but if this man really want something, then it pulls the by. Sure, there were electric cars before the start of Tesla, and even before you could pay with PayPal a small electronic chip cash. But what this man tackles, just seems to be a huge success and so it is probably also run with his latest project Hyperloop. In the U.S. business magazine Business Week, he applied this type of locomotion ever modest as "fifth mode of transportation."

This magnetic levitation technology to ensure the rapid propulsion. He wants to travel twice the speed reach as today's aircraft. The current that is needed for it to be recovered from environmentally friendly solar energy. Further details are to Musk on 12 August post, if the alpha version of Hyperloop is presented.

Interesting Fact: Actually, you are in the industry, always anxious to be patented in its solutions. Musk sees the apparently different. In a Twitter post, he wrote: "I hate patents, except they are important for the survival of the company. Hyperloop'll publish it as open source. "Then you must be on the prototypes already curious.

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Video: Experts split a Tesla Model S

Since there is observed in the recovery of injured from an electric car a lot, you have now a pilot with a Tesla Model S performed at the Fire Department in Fremont, California. Under the supervision of engineers Brock Archer and Ron Moore Firefighter disassembled the car made by Tesla are available and then have the entire procedure summarized in a video.

The core message of the approximately 37-minute strip can be stated that the converter for converting DC and AC must not be damaged. By destroying the entire car could be electrified and thus enable the rescuers electrocuted. With the help of cutting action a rescue card should also be developed for this model. The there is the ADAC also for many other models, whether gasoline or hybrid drive. But here's the video:

Source : Tesla

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Tesla Model X

As the designer of the Tesla Model X have even thought of something very fine. What all far more linked with the legend of a major German car manufacturer, now comes in a more environmentally conscious current version is used: Sliding Doors. That would indicate that environmental protection is not only a necessary evil, but also can be mighty sexy. At NAIAS, the new baby has just been presented to the world public.

The double doors at the mixture of van and SUV give the entry to the second and third row free. Riders and passengers must continue to take with conventionally opening doors Vorlieb. Which will interfere with the driver but rather less. He can look forward to a sports car-like acceleration that will propel the car in under five seconds to 100 km / h. For it either provides only an electric motor at the rear or optional nor a second at the front, with the help of this car is equal to a true four-wheel drive. For people who want to measure exactly the car even faster around the corners, holding Tesla provides the "performance" version. When the charge capacity of the batteries and thus in the range, the environmentalists have on four wheels, the choice between a 60 - and a 85 kW / h variant.

The interior of the precious electricity offers to its three rows of seating seven people. These can then look forward to the back-friendly and soft leather seats. The driver can get the necessary information on a dashboard with LCD technology, and on the large 17-inch display monitor. All technology and luxury of course come at a price. Exact figures would reveal the Tesla Seller not yet, but is likely to move for such a car ever in the area of ​​premium SUVs. The production of electric cars will start 2014.


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