A full-scale Virgin Hyperloop cargo pod and a cutaway passenger pod as part of Dubai’s DP World’s FLOW pavilion at Expo 2020. Credit: Virgin Hyperloop via REUTERS The fundamental problem is the lack ...
Hyperloop One had once dreamed of building a high-speed freight link between Europe and China, one that could take cargo from one end to the other in a single day. That will, however, remain one of ...
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After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down. As Bloomberg reports, the once hyped-up transportation startup — which planned to ...
Hyperloop One, the futurist transportation company (in case you forgot) that promised to whisk passengers and cargo in vacuum-sealed tubes at jet speeds from city to city, is officially over – but ...
Elon Musk said Sunday via Twitter that his tunnel-building-for-urban-transport business The Boring Company will attempt to build a high-speed, and still theoretical, hyperloop in the coming years. In ...
Hyperloop One, the futuristic transportation company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is shutting down, according to people familiar ...
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How Elon Musk’s sci-fi hyperloop failed

We have no idea what we’re doing,” declared Elon Musk, standing beside a yawning “test trench” in Southern California in 2017. A crowd of engineering students and tech reporters hooted and hollered, ...
While researchers have encountered major headwinds in turning the Hyperloop into a reality, the European Hyperloop Center is still hoping to open the first functional tube by the end of the decade.
Whereas some dreamers are imagining a future when humanity is traveling among the stars, others are looking for solutions to more immediate problems, such as the faster and safer transportation of ...
Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in less than an hour or from London to Paris in 15 minutes. Sounds impossible, right? Well, not for China’s biggest missile manufacturer, which claims to ...