LOS ANGELES – If you consider it a train, it is really short and very fast.

But that's not it. This is a "passenger capsule", which has just been revealed by one of the companies that are trying to create what is now called a hyperloop. This is the system designed to get people from one city to another through tubes.

Los Angeles-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies unveiled this stylish capsule that can carry 30 to 40 passengers.

The new capsule is "the real deal," said Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of HyperloopTT, who unveiled it last week in Spain, where it was built. She will then travel to Toulouse, France, for tests next year, as the company prepares to build the first segments of the hyper loop in China and Abu Dhabi.

Ahlborn envisions that the capsule can travel more than 400 km from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 36 minutes, by magnetically levitating in a tube to avoid friction.

Several companies, including those run by some of the world's best-known tycoons, are striving to be among the first to create a system that can compete with both high-speed trains and airlines.

Richard Branson, President of Virgin Hyperloop One, in April, he told CNBC that he wanted it to be up and running three years from now. Elon Musk, CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla and SpaceX rocket company, is supporting Boring Co. in tunneling efforts that could lead to hyper-looping.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, or HyperloopTT, as it is called by the abbreviated company, considers the many competitors as an advantage to generate interest for the concept of hyper-loop.

"We understood that it must be more than just a business, it must be a movement," Ahlborn said. "You have the whole world talking about hyperloop."

The capsule is 105 feet long and is made of 82 carbon fiber panels. He is detained with 75,000 rivets, the company said. Its front end is streamlined and profiled like that of high-speed trains in Europe or Japan and its stocky rear end.

According to Ahlborn, it would take about 100 capsules to operate a line like that of Los Angeles in San Francisco, capable of departures as often as 45 seconds apart. He added that the capsule was designed for speeds of up to 750 mph, but that it would "work" in a "realistic" way at a slower speed, at least initially.

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