To make a long story short, and to state the obvious, “cost per lane mile” is never one number. The FHWA’s HERS table, which itself is a reductive, arguably arbitrary summary, there are 252 distinct cost per lane mile estimates, 24 per project category. And within these nine categori...
Political and economic realities have demonstrated to be just as unsurmountable as the technology itself. Musk made fun of the budget for the fabled California high-speed train, which was tagged at $81 millionper mile.He claimed that the Hyperloop would cost $11.5 million per mile. advertisemen...
It’s unclear how much it would cost to build a hyperloop, but surely it would be in the billions of dollars. Leaked financial documents in 2016 suggested the hyperloop would cost between $9 billion and $13 billion, or between $84 million and $121 million per mile — significantly more...
uncongested area where the right-of-way is already available” connecting St. Louis and Kansas City projects the cost per mile for the hyperloop construction to be about $30 to
Correction: Elon Musk originally predicted that $6 billion would be the total cost of building the hyperloop, not the per-mile cost, as the article originally stated. 0 Comments0 NewMost Popular Most Popular Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires The Honda Zero EVs loo...
It’s an exciting technology with a futuristic bent, but to hit the big time, it needs to beat out all comers on price and practicality. Let’s take a look at how it breaks down. Continue reading“Hyperloop: Fast, But At What Cost?”→ ...
Musk has in fact been openly hostile to CHSR, and devoted the first substantive paragraphs of the Hyperloop whitepaper to a swipe at “California ‘high speed’ rail” (complete with skeptical scare quotes), which he described as “one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest...
Musk’s guesstimate of around $17m per mile has been disputed by independent analysts and is heavily contingent on advances being made in tunnelling techniques. To address this, Musk launched a tunnelling company whose purpose is to lower the cost of creating very long tunnels. Called ‘The ...
as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL—doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars—would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in ...
Iron Man The project could connect Los Angeles and San Francisco in 35 minutes in a low-cost alternative to a high-speed rail network planned for California. Musk has said he has no plans to build the system but offered the "open source design" to allow others to pursue a venture. He'...