Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is building a 320 meters (1,049 ft) hyperloop test track in Toulouse, France , which will be used to test its passenger pod in April 2019.

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A review of the history and current status of hyperloop technology.

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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies unveiled its first full-scale passenger capsule – 105 feet long and weighing 5 tons – in Spain. The ‘Quintero One’ is made almost entirely out of composite material.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company will give free rides in its proof-of-concept tunnel in December. The tunnel is about 2 miles long, and contains electric skates that travel at top speeds of around 150 mph.

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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to bring its low-pressure tube-based transport system to Abu Dhabi in late 2019. The 10 km track is designed for both passengers and cargo, and capsules can travel at speeds of <1,223 km/h. Each 30-meter long capsule can hold 28-40 passengers. Show full article

Elon Musk’s Boring Company won the bid to create and operate a high-speed express Hyperloop train from downtown Chicago to Chicago’s International Airport, which could cut travel time to 12 minutes. Each vehicle will feature luggage space and Wi-Fi, allowing business passengers to use computers in transit.

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Elon Musk detailed plans for The Boring Company’s Loop in Los Angeles, a mass transit system that will carry 16 people and travel at 150 miles per hour through a tunnel. If travel via the Hyperloop becomes a reality, its routes could radically cut down on the time and costs for business and other travelers to get from city to city and country to country.

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An introduction to the science behind Hyperloop, which dates back to 1996.

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Hyperloop is a new form of ground transport currently in development by a number of companies, which could see passengers traveling at 700 miles an hour in floating pods within low-pressure tubes. The basic concept was proposed in 1910, updated by Elon Musk in 2013, and a production system is expected in 2021. Many initial routes are being considered in the US, Europe, and India. The system would be faster, lower cost, and environmentally better than rail travel over 900 miles.

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An overview of the history of hyperloop technology, the current state of development, the major players, and current installation plans and costs.

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Elon Musk says his Boring Company is switching focus to prioritize transportation for pedestrians and cyclists over cars. In his concept, a pod fills up with people at ground level with its destination lit up on front and side. The pod descends into a tunnel below to a track, then speeds to its destination at about 200 km/h.

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An agreement between Virgin Hyperloop One and the Indian government lays the groundwork for building a hyperloop system connecting Mumbai to Pune within seven years. The route is about 100 miles by road and will be traversed in 25 minutes.

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China’s state-run space contractor China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation is starting research on a “high-speed flying train” that would reach top speeds of 4,000 km per hour (or 2,485 miles per hour), 10 times the speed of the fastest current bullet train (also Chinese). The concept involves a passenger pod propelled by magnetic levitation through a tube in near-vacuum.

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This week saw the first tests of prototype carriages or pods on a one-mile-long test track near Los Angeles. A pod made by a German student team came top in this competition. Tests managed to propel one of its pods at 355km/h (220mph), a new record for the technology – only days after a separate prototype hit 324km/h.

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Hyperloop One achieved speeds of 192 mph in its 2nd trial at its 500-meter DevLoop test track in the Nevada desert, traveling 300m. (In its 1st trial, it achieved 69 mph.)

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Hyperloop’s first test in a vacuum tube was carried out on May 12 at Hyperloop’s DevLoop track in the Nevada desert, where the bare-bones sled cruised for 5.3 seconds above the track using magnetic levitation. The vehicle achieved 2Gs acceleration and hit its target speed of 70mph. The company will now begin work on the next test, targeting 250mph.

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Nine potential routes, connecting 75 million people in 44 cities, spanning 5,000km, were made public at Hyperloop One’s Vision for Europe Summit. The transport system uses electromagnetic-powered sleds accelerated through vacuum-sealed steel tunnels at speeds of up to 750mph. In the company’s first open-air test of the technology last year, a pod was propelled to more than 100mph over a short track.

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Dutch startup Hardt Global Mobility unveiled Europe’s first Hyperloop test facility in Delft to develop its own transportation system for passengers and freight with support from the government, University and investors. Hardt plans to build a high-speed test facility in 2019 and to start commercial travel in Europe in 2021.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is building a tunnel that can also run the Hyperloop. (A transport system uses propulsion based on electromagnetism that could propel pods in vacuum-sealed steel tunnels at speeds up to 760 mph.)

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Hypersonic Transport operates at speeds of 3.8 to 7.7K mph. First proposed by Elon Musk in July 2012. A US company, ET3 (Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies), hs a vision of traveling in car-sized passenger capsules from the US to India in 3 hours for $50.

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