Europe’s longest hyperloop test track revives futuristic tube transport hype
Operators hope newly opened Dutch track will help prove feasibility of high-speed shuttle system
November 2020
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Charming case of mistaken identity
First passengers travel in Virgin's levitating hyperloop pod system
April 2020
Amsterdam to Paris in 90 minutes? Dutch tout hyperloop as future of travel
North Holland thinks unproven 600mph magnetic hovertrain could help replace air travel
October 2019
Richard Branson: ‘Aviation can be carbon neutral sooner than we realise’
The relentlessly upbeat entrepreneur believes efficiency and electricity could stop airlines worsening the climate crisis
December 2018
Labor rebuffs Elon Musk’s ‘hypothetical’ Hyperloop to solve Australia's transport woes
Anthony Albanese says high-speed rail most ‘competitive’ and ‘proven’ option for eastern seaboard
February 2018
Bill Gates: cryptocurrencies have 'caused deaths in a fairly direct way'
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Elon Musk’s dream ideas
October 2017
Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky?
First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the station
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group invests in Hyperloop One
The British entrepreneur says he wants to make ‘airline speeds on the ground’ a reality, while engineering experts cast doubt on the safety of the technology
September 2017
Is Elon Musk's plan for a road network beneath LA more than a pipe dream?
Cities attract wild ideas, from Qinhuangdao’s straddling bus to London’s bike lanes in the sky. As Musk’s Boring Company starts tunnelling, could his plans for underground roads and Hyperloop trains prove the doubters wrong?
August 2017
Elon Musk: Boring Company commits to 600mph Hyperloop and tube network
Transport
'Faster, cheaper, cleaner': experts disagree about Elon Musk's Hyperloop claims
August 2016
Transport
Hyperloop and our misplaced love of futuristic technology
It’s generally easier to improve transport systems incrementally; Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is another idea that may captivate imaginations but fail to deliver
July 2016
Hyperloop co-founder's harassment suit claims ‘colleague left noose on my chair’
Brogan BamBrogan brings harassment and nepotism lawsuit against the supersonic transport company, claiming he feared for his physical safety
Hyperloop or over-hyped? Latest demo does little to ease doubts
Alex Hern
Don’t count your chickens before they’re accelerated at 1,200km an hour down a modified railgun through a vacuum tube
Hyperloop One tests supersonic transport propulsion system – video
Hyperloop One conducts the first public test of a prototype propulsion system which could eventually transport people through tubes at the speed of sound
Hyperloop One tests high-speed transport propulsion system
Company carries out public track run of prototype that might one day rocket commuters between San Francisco and Los Angeles in a supersonic pod
March 2016
Elon Musk's Hyperloop could head to Europe before California
As two companies compete to make Hyperloop a reality, one looks to Slovakia as the first destination, ahead of the original Los Angeles to San Francisco rail plan
