For the first time in history, two humans were strapped into Virgin Hyperloop's Pegasus pod and safely accelerated to 107mph in 6.25s in a 500m long hyperloop in the desert of Nevada.
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After German team TUM Hyperloop won this year's Hyperloop Pod Competition, Elon Musk announced that next year's competition will be held in a new 10km vacuum tunnel track with a curve.
Virgin Hyperloop One announced today that companies in North Carolina are officially looking into hyperloop technology as a potential regional and inter-city transportation platform.
Warr University has set a new record with its Hyperloop pod, managing to reach speeds of 467km/h, up from the previous record of 323km/h, which it also set. Musk envisaged pods travelling 1,200km/h.
The founder of the Eelo project has penned an open letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The letter seeks to gain funding for the privacy project from the billionaire despite reaching its Kickstarter goal.
The concept is called Vision E3 Way; it is a network of elevated tunnels designed for electric bicycles and scooters. Its purpose is to offer a fast, safe, green, and all-weather option for commuters.
The company which prides itself on being the first to build and test a functional hyperloop system has received a large boost thanks to an undisclosed investment from the Virgin Group.
The Hyperloop One Global Challenge is a competition that allows anyone to propose a route of the Hyperloop transport system. 10 routes have won and will now be explored for further feasibility.
China has announced its plans to build a “high-speed flying train” capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound. It would be a direct competitor to Elon Musk's Hyperloop.
The team which consisted of students from the Technical University of Munich were able to get its pod, which is powered by a 50 kW electric motor up to a speed of 200 mph at SpaceX's Hyperloop tube.
Hyperloop One has completed its second full-system test successfully, with the company's aluminum and carbon fiber XP-1 prototype pod going 2.7 times faster than the first test, reaching 192mph.
Elon Musk has posted a video on Instagram of a successful test of The Boring Company's car elevator that will be used at various access points along his proposed underground Hyperloop network.
Elon Musk says that the Boring Company has received 'verbal' approval for an underground Hyperloop that would reduce travel time between New York City and Washington, DC to just 29 minutes.
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Hyperloop One, a company that was formed to commercialize Elon Musk's ultra-fast transportation concept, has successfully completed its first test run in its DevLoop test track, reaching 70mph.
The South Korean version of the high speed transport system will go by the name Hypertube Express, and it will supposedly cut the journey time from Busan to Seoul from 3 hours down to 20 minutes.
Following the Hyperloop One Global Challenge, which saw many places bidding for a potential route of the 1126kph transport system, these are the 9 potential routes that were announced today.
As if Tesla, SpaceX, and all of his other exploits were not enough, Elon Musk now wants to expand the transport networks of our cities by building new and faster tunneling machines.
