News and Developments
- HTT and Slovakian government are exploring a Hyperloop route between Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava The Bratislava-to-Vienna route is estimated to take 8 minutes at Hyperloop’s full speed, while a Bratislava-to-Budapest trip just 10 minutes.
- MIT students win first round of SpaceX Hyperloop contest A team from MIT took top honors Saturday at a competition at Texas A&M University to design the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation concept dreamed up by Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
- Hyperloop race is on. CBS says the Hyperloop "Kitty Hawk moment" is at hand and views some of the hardware being tested.
- SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competion SpaceX is announcing an open competition, geared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod and test it on a one-mile track adjacent to SpaceX headquarters.
- Hyperloop moves into Industrial Space A company behind the futuristic, high-speed transportation system fantasized by Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk has leased warehouse space in downtown Los Angeles and is rapidly adding new workers to a staff of 20 full-time employees.
- Hyperloop Is Real: Meet The Startups Selling Supersonic Travel. Three well funded groups pushing it forward, Hyperloop Technologies, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and possibly Elon Musk.
- HTT Test Track: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has secured land for the first full-scale Hyperloop, planned for a 2016 launch in the California model town of Quay Valley.
- Hyperloop Progress: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. has 100 engineers spread across the US and 25 UCLA graduate students working on design solutions.
- Elevated network of sky cars is to be built in Tel Aviv. A 500m loop will be built on the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) followed by a commercial network, according to skyTran, the company that will build it.
- Solar Roadways Raises $2,200,811 on IndieGogo, surpassing its $1,000,000 goal to develop its glass covered, solar powered, smart roadways.
- Toronto to Ottawa in 30min, Montreal in 45. Canadian Hyperloop pitched at Accelerate Ottawa to investors to connect Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City in Canada.
- Scientists build super-maglev Train Scientists at Southwest Jiaotong University in China have reportedly built a maglev train that could reach 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).