Hyperloop capsule is ready for test in France
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has delivered passenger capsule to its French technology centre in Toulouse. The device will be tested on the one-kilometre tube line that is under construction now. The 32-metre Hyperloop capsule was manufactured...Read more
Two French departments to get Hyperloop lines
Two technology companies plan to launch Hyperloop services in France this year. Canadian TransPod is expected to construct its tube line in the Haute-Vienne department in the western part of the country. The US-based Hyperloop...Read more
Switzerland to construct first Hyperloop route in Europe
Switzerland will become the first European country to test the Hyperloop technology. Non-profit research institute EuroTube together with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and canton Valais will construct the three-kilometre trial track. The works are expected...Read more
HyperloopTT wants capsule to be ready for passengers in 2019
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) presented its first full-scale passenger Hyperloop capsule in the Spanish city of Puerto de Santa Maria on Tuesday. It was built in Spain by HyperloopTT’s partner Airtificial and is headed to...Read more
Virgin to develop a Hyperloop train in Spain
Virgin Hyperloop One and the Spanish rail infrastructure manager Adif have agreed to build a research centre in Bobadilla, a village in Malaga. The centre is set up for the development of a hyperloop train...Read more
TU Delft students reveal new Hyperloop pod
Delft University of Technology Hyperloop Team II has revealed their new Atlas 01 Hyperloop pod and launcher on Tuesday. The reveal took place on campus in Delft, the Netherlands. The team focused on creating a...Read more
Agreement for commercial Hyperloop system in Ukraine signed
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan have signed an agreement to develop Europe’s first commercial Hyperloop system. The agreement was signed last week in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Transportation and technology...Read more
The freight hyperloop: the speed of flight and cost of trucking
DP World and Virgin Hyperloop One have partnered to develop hyperloop-enabled cargo systems to transport palletised cargo. The companies will operate under the name Cargospeed and cater to the high-priority on-demand goods industry, ‘delivering freight...Read more