Virgin Hyperloop Pegasus Nevada, Pod by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group + Kilo Design, US Architecture
Virgin Hyperloop Pegasus Pod in Nevada
Nov 10, 2020
Virgin Hyperloop Pegasus in Nevada, USA
Attention Passengers: Now Boarding The Future Of Transportation On Hyperloop?s Pegasus
Virgin Hyperloop Trials First Passenger Ride In Big And Kilo-designed Pegasus Pod

Images Courtesy of Virgin Hyperloop
November 10th, 2020 – Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Kilo Design, Virgin Hyperloop?s Pegasus pod makes history in the Nevada desert as it successfully carries its first passengers in the newest form of travel in over a century.

Virgin Hyperloop has partnered with BIG and Kilo to design Pegasus, or ?XP-2?, a new vehicle typology for an autonomous transportation system to achieve hyperloop travel at the speed of over 1,000km/hour, the fastest form of land-based travel. After over a year of close collaboration, the first passengers trial this new form of transportation at Virgin Hyperloop?s 500m DevLoop test site in Las Vegas, where the company has previously run over 400 tests in un-occupied pods. The demonstration was overseen by the industry-recognized Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) Certifier, and its success marks a historic moment in transportation as Pegasus becomes the first manned and fully functional system for Hyperloop travel.
?When we started in a garage over 6 years ago, it felt like a distant dream to one day ride in a Hyperloop pod. Today, that dream came t...