A decade ago, Elon Musk told the world that the transportation of the future would include 600 mph trains inside tubes. Glass tubes. Steel tubes. Concrete tubes. One tube going everywhere, connecting ...

Hyperloops burst onto the scene in 2013. Elon Musk detailed a new type of train service in a low-pressure tube that would reach speeds up to 760 mph. The train would float on a cushion of air and be ...

Elon Musk described a dazzling vision: a transit system that could hurl passengers between cities at nearly the speed of sound. His paper on the topic spurred a cohort of big-thinking entrepreneurs to ...

Hyperloop One had once dreamed of building a high-speed freight link between Europe and China, one that could take cargo from one end to the other in a single day. That will, however, remain one of ...

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The tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and turns on its route to failure. While Marketplace’s Lily ...

Virgin Hyperloop has revealed what a 45-minute trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco is going to look like. Last week, the mass transportation company -- owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group -- ...

Hyperloop, the futuristic transport system first conceived by Elon Musk, has been included in a landmark trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that passed through the US Senate on Tuesday. Two companies ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In a white-board world, hyperloop sounds ideal. Take a sleek pod, place it in a vacuum-sealed tube and let it float frictionless above its rails using tested magnetic levitation, or ...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, one of the startups trying to build the high-speed transportation system dreamed up years ago by Elon Musk, won a bid to build a prototype in northern Italy. The ...

Hyperloop One — a high-speed train startup endorsed by Elon Musk that nevertheless got sidetracked with project delays and bizarre sex-harassment claims against some of its executives and backers — ...

Whereas some dreamers are imagining a future when humanity is traveling among the stars, others are looking for solutions to more immediate problems, such as the faster and safer transportation of ...