Hyperloop One has announced the 10 winners of itsHyperloop OneGlobal Challenge, which sought to identify the most impactful potential Hyperloop routes across the globe. From hundreds of applicants, 10 systems located in 5 different countries were selected by a panel of experts from fields of infr...
There are a number of startups working on Elon Musk's Hyperloop, but none are gathering quite the momentum of Hyperloop One. The company has today announced US$85 million in new funding, as it looks to move forward with the development of routes around the world. Urban Transport Hyper...
Also, five of the 10 winning teams were supported by global engineering firm AECOM. Hyperloop One says it will “commit meaningful business and engineering resources and work closely with each of the winning teams/routes to determine their commercial viability.” ...
then we could get up to 700 miles per hour," he said. For now, Hyperloop One's engineers are determined to test 85% of the system on the 500 meters
Currently, Hyperloop One has a deal with Dubai to explore potential routes and is also looking at European countries as potential locations. Bringing a hyperloop system to the U.S. is also a focus for the company. "Building new infrastructure for the world is so important. We're all stuck...
Traveling along the ancient routes of the Silk Road could take months, with danger and disaster never too far from hand. One day, a new Silk Road might exist between China and Europe – and it should be a lot more secure and only take a day to move goods between the two regions. Tha...
Hyperloop One has addressed this potential resistance by running competitions for proposed locations around the world, whichinclude nine routes in Europe and 11 in the US. The company also took the wraps off its first prototype pod, dubbed XP-1. The 28-foot long pod is a shell cons...
The dueling lawsuits and lurid accusations threaten to sully the company's idealistic mission to create a new form of transportation. A lawyer representing Hyperloop One, Orin Snyder, a partner at Gibson Dunn, said: "We are confident that at the end of the day it will be obvious that ...
At an April 2017 conference called “Vision for America,” Hyperloop One revealed several proposed tracks that it could build across the United States. The proposed routes include a track uniting Dallas, Houston, and Laredo — and stops in between — with a total transit time of roughly an ...
For example, Mason claims that current designs for lengthy Hyperloop routes don’t take into account thermal expansion of metal tubes that are literally hundreds of miles long. When reached for comment on this challenge, a Hyperloop One spokesperson said “We have successfully built a test track...