The newly renamed Hyperloop One venture sent an electrically propelled sled down a Nevada test track at speeds that went...
Zero to 100 in two seconds! Hyperloop One zooms through first public speed test
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Hyperloop One unveils a new name, new partners and $80 million in new funding
Forget Hyperloop Technologies: Now the company is called Hyperloop One, and it’s backed by $ 80 million in...
Hyperloop company “exclusively licensed” passive magnetic levitation system
Hyperloop Levitation
On Monday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced that it had “exclusively licensed” a technology that could help it bring the transit system idea, popularized by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to fruition.
The licensed technology, called passive magnetic levitation, departs significantly from the system that Musk theorized back in 2013. Musk’s Hyperloop design involves a low-pressure...
Commercial Hyperloop race heats up: Maglev system revealed, and more to come
This is a big week for the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation concept that was laid out three years ago...
Feds consider helping fund Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
The hyperloop pod design contest took place in Texas A&M University's Hall of Champions. (credit: Eric Berger)
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—For years, the Hyperloop was a much buzzed-about myth. Finally, in 2013, Elon Musk provided a bit of substance by outlining the proposal in a research paper. People riding inside a tube, he said, could go from...
MIT leads in first round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest, but UW is still in the race
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top rating in the design phase of a SpaceX-sponsored contest to develop levitating cars for a Hyperloop rapid-transit test track. More than 20 other teams, including a student group from the University of Washington, were also...
Hoverboard meets Hyperloop: Arx Pax is finding buyers for magnetic levitation tech
The company that brought you a real-life hoverboard from “Back in the Future” wants to levitate you in the Hyperloop as well. Arx Pax, the Silicon Valley company behind the Hendo Hoverboard, says it’s marketing its...
More than 120 teams picked for SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest
More than 120 student engineering teams, including a group from the University of Washington, have been chosen for a Hyperloop pod design competition backed by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Experts at SpaceX selected the teams from hundreds of entries to take part...