---
title: "The First Full-Scale Hyperloop Passenger Capsule Has Arrived"
description: "## Pod People"
date: "2018-10-03"
modified: "2018-10-03"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/hyperloop-passenger-capsule"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Hyperloop"
  - "Mass Transit"
tags:
  - "hyperloop"
  - "hyperloop transportation technologies"
  - "quintero one"
  - "the digest"
---

# The First Full-Scale Hyperloop Passenger Capsule Has Arrived

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/hyperloop.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Hyperloop TT\</em\>*

## Pod People

We've seen more [sketches](<https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4614940/elon-musk-reveals-plans-for-high-speed-hyperloop>) and [animated demo videos](<https://youtu.be/Czrc1JfIBRw>) of hyperloops than we can count. But now, one of leaders of the industry has finally shown us something we can touch.

During a ceremony in Spain on Tuesday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) [unveiled the Quintero One](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/the-future-of-transport-arrives-with-hyperloop-capsule-unveiling>), a pod designed to whisk passengers across vast distances, through depressurized tubes, as part of the high-tech transportation system of the future.

The company also released a video detailing the manufacturing of the capsule on the same day.

https://youtu.be/uK7NeurSjNA

## The Deets

Quintero One is 32 meters (105 feet) long, weighs 5,000 kilograms (5.5 tons), and took 5,000 hours to assemble. HyperloopTT constructed it almost entirely out of a custom-built, super-strong, super-light smart material containing a combination of carbon fiber and embedded sensors. These sensors can wirelessly transmit information on everything from temperature to stability in real-time while the capsule is in operation.

## On the Move

Next stop for the capsule is HyperloopTT’s research and development center in Toulouse, France, so the company can integrate it into a hyperloop system. [According to Bibop Gresta](<http://www.hyperloop.global/assets/images/HyperloopTTCapsulePress%20Kit.pdf>), HyperloopTT's chairman and co-founder, it will be ready for passengers by 2019.

That's assuming the company has a hyperloop in place to support it, of course.

The idea of a hyperloop has been floating around since Elon Musk first [posed the concept](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2013/08/12/elon-musk-to-reveal-hyperloop-plans-after-a-trickle-of-hints/>) back in 2013, and HyperloopTT is just one of [several companies](<https://www.wired.com/story/guide-hyperloop/>) developing the technology.

Despite all the hype, though, we still don't have a hyperloop. But hey, at least this pod's a step in the right direction.

**READ MORE:** [First Hyperloop Passenger Capsule Unveiled](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/the-future-of-transport-arrives-with-hyperloop-capsule-unveiling>) \[*Bloomberg*\]

***More on HyperloopTT: [CEO of a Hyperloop Company Has Some Surprising Thoughts on the Future of Transportation](<https://futurism.com/hyperloop-ceo-thoughts-future-of-transportation>)***

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)