Nevomo (known as Hyper Poland until 2020) is a Polish company developing a high-speed magnetic railroad based on the Hyperloop technology. The company proposes a 3-step approach to implementing its proprietary technology in the railroad market with its first step being a Maglev solution which can be retrofitted to existing railway tracks. Nevomo was founded in 2017 in Warsaw, Poland
Formerly | Hyper Poland |
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Industry | Railway Technology |
Founded | April 21, 2017Warsaw, Poland | in
Headquarters | Warsaw , Poland |
Products | MagRail |
Number of employees | 53 (2023) |
Website | www |
Nevomo was founded in April 2017 under its original name Hyper Poland as a spin-off of a team of university students of Warsaw University of Technology. The student team had successfully participated in the Hyperloop Pod Competition II competition organized by SpaceX in California.[1] By the end of 2018, the company had filed eight patent applications. In October 2019, the company unveiled its first 1:5 scale prototype of the track and MagRail vehicle.[2] In 2020, the company begun test runs on a scaled-down track.[3] In the same year, the company rebranded from Hyper Poland to Nevomo.[4]
In the first quarter of 2022, Nevomo completed the construction of Europe's longest test track for passive magnetic levitation. The 700 meter-long railway track in Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland allows vehicles utilizing the company's MagRail technology to travel at speeds of up to 160 kph.[5] The installation of all necessary wayside equipment was completed in December 2022 and tests began in spring 2023.[6] The first levitation tests are planned for 2023.
Nevomo is developing a three-stage implementation of the hyperloop concept in which its MagRail technology – based on passive magnetic levitation – is intended to be the first. The company's core technological focus areas are in the development of a new type of linear motor, the levitation and guidance systems, the power electronics and position control systems, as well as monitoring systems.[7] The staged approach anticipates that a railway track will be first upgraded with the company's MagRail technology, which in a later stage is first enclosed to reduce drag, before finally becoming a full-fledged Hyperloop with a vacuum tube. As the later stages are expected to demand many more years of development before becoming technically and commercially viable, Nevomo is today focussing on following technologies:
The company has secured a grant of PLN 16.5 million from the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR)[8] and completed two rounds of equity crowdfunding campaigns on Seedrs with PLN 3.7 million.[9] In 2020, the Hütter Private Equity fund from Gdynia, Poland joined the company's investor group.[10]
In mid-2022 Nevomo received funding of €2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) accelerator program, to be expanded with a campaign component of up to €15 million from the EIC fund.[11] In the same year, EIT InnoEnergy - one of the world's largest investors in sustainable energy innovation - also invested in the company.[12]