LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Virgin Hyperloop says it made history on Sunday by testing human travel in one of its hyperloop pods for the first time. The company says its two-person pod traveled 107 mph on its ...
For a brief period of time not long ago the word "hyperloop” was on everybody's lips. Popularized by Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper, the idea of high-speed travel through a low-pressure tube and ...
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 ...
Elon's Hyperloop key innovation was to combine low-but-not-so-hard-to-maintain air pressure in the tube with a compressor in front of the pod. The compressor sucks air from the front of the pod and ...
Netherlands-based Hardt Hyperloop sent a pod through 90 meters of a test tube. It didn't crack 20 miles per hour. By Mack DeGeurin Published Sep 10, 2024 2:19 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...
Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the Hyperloop test track at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Tamil Nadu's Chennai on Saturday, March 15, 2025. While interacting with ...
Existing concepts in science like linear induction motors and magnetic levitation are back in the spotlight thanks to Elon Musk's proposal for a... A Closer Look At Elon Musk's Much-Hyped Hyperloop ...
Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...
A team of engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won the third SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Teams were tasked with building a prototype transport pod that would run on a ...