Hi Julia, Sorry for the belated reply. Augustin has forwarded me you message a while ago. I can’t go into details due to confidentiality reasons. I’m talking to our CTO to see what level of detail is acceptable. I have a list of your questions, but at the moment I can only give you some vague comments. You rise valid points and many of them are being tackled by our engineering/simulations team at the moment.

In my opinion, the biggest fundamental problem when talking about applicability of linear motors to hyperloop-like project is their ability to generate thrust at high speeds.

Desings that are efficient at 10 m/s fail miserably at 100 m/s due to eddies/skin effect/magnetic saturation.

Thus, the majority of our efforts is focused on investigation of various approaches that could alleviate these factors.

Their biggest focus:

• looking into ways to alleviate factors lowering efficiency

What was your path to getting to be a simulation engineer w transpod?

• how did you learn about it? what do you recommend for me to do to learn?

Also I am looking to get more experience within this field and really excited about transpod’s work and goals

What would I need to do or know to work well with your team perhaps in a co-op

maybe my questions should focus more on the general technique

• what do you look for in trying to build a motor that can withstand 1000 kph beyond just a 100 kph one
• how do you know if tooo much mag skin and eddies will be too much on the next one? - when it doesnt work and affects the effeciency
• what sim software do you know?
• how do you test the motors?

i’m a student working on new ways to increase efficiency of lims in hyperloops. can i send you 1-2 questions about your work with motor simulations and with transpod?