A test site for Hyperloop technology, the high-speed transportation system touted by Elon Musk, has been dismantled and is set to become a parking lot for SpaceX employees in Hawthorne, California, Bloomberg reported Thursday. .
The tunnel, which was reportedly dismantled earlier this year, housed tests of yet-untested technology, which Musk’s The Boring Company said would move people underground in electric capsules to more than 600 miles per hour. Those speeds could get someone from Washington, DC to New York City in 30 minutes, the company said.
Musk has been talking about the promise of Hyperloop since 2013. At an event in Hawthorne in 2018, Musk suggested that the Hyperloop would move people around Los Angeles at speeds of 50 miles per hour for only $1 per trip. Neither the Los Angeles Hyperloop nor a faster, longer-range version has been carried out, although The Boring Company’s website still features Hyperloop.
In April, The Boring Company said on Twitter that it would start testing Hyperloop “on a large scale” at some point this year.
The Boring Company has completed a very different network of tunnels under Las Vegas, where passengers can travel in Tesla cars.
It was reported to earlier this year that a Hyperloop competitor company, Virgin Hyperloop, was abandoning hopes of moving passengers in its version of the technology, and would instead focus on moving cargo.
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