Landable first-stage rockets and electric cars are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Elon Musk’s preferred modes of transportation. If the term “Hyperloop” hasn’t quite made it into your ...

Late yesterday, Elon Musk finally unveiled the Hyperloop: A partially evacuated tube, where pods floating on air bearings and accelerated by linear motors will travel between San Francisco and Los ...

HANOVER, Germany—Continental A.G. has supplied air springs to Dutch company Hardt for its first European hyperloop system, which will start trial runs soon. The system, based on the principle of ...

What does it matter whether it is exactly like Musk's original back of the envelope idea or not? The reason for having a hyperloop (should it ever become feasible) is to move people and cargo at high ...

Ever since technology mogul Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Hyperloop — a theoretical mass-transit system that would propel passengers and cargo through vacuum tubes at near-supersonic speeds — ...

The race to build the Hyperloop – the tube-based high-speed transport system originally proposed by Elon Musk back in 2013 – just got more interesting. Hyperloop Technologies, one of two Los ...

A year ago, somewhat eccentric kajillionaire, Elon Musk, revealed that he's been cooking up a new transportation system that would carry passengers roughly 700mph -- almost the speed of sound. Dubbed ...

While the credit for penning the 2013 hyperloop white paper that captured the public imagination goes to Elon Musk, credit for developing the first full scale test track and large-scale feasibility ...

Virgin Hyperloop is had its first-ever passenger test. They have two people at a time in the pods on a 500-meter test track. There are eight companies working towards developing the Hyperloop concept.

HAWTHORNE, CA—On a sweltering day in Southern California, 20 groups of student engineers gathered on a side street near the SpaceX headquarters to show off the Hyperloop pods that they had spent the ...

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