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Hyperloop One Suffocates in its Vacuum Tubes

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The post Hyperloop One Suffocates in its Vacuum Tubes appeared first on Spiceworks. The company has fired most of its employees, is selling off assets, and will no longer be operational by the new year.

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Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test

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For the first time, two people rode a hyperloop pod through a nearly airless tube at 100 mph Virgin Hyperloop announced that for the first time it has conducted a test of its ultra-fast transportation system with human passengers. To be sure, the pod didn’t reach the hyperloop’s theoretical maximum speed of 760 mph. It weighs 2.5

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Virgin Hyperloop switches focus from passengers to cargo as it lays off half its staff

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An experimental Virgin Hyperloop passenger transport pod on display in Washington, DC in 2021. Virgin Hyperloop has laid off almost half its staff as the company switches its focus from transporting passengers to shifting freight. In 2017, company execs told The Verge they expect to see “working hyperloops around the world.

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Space X Hyperloop tube dismantled for employee parking lot in LA suburb

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The Hyperloop tube running along Jack Northrop Avenue in Hawthorne, Los Angeles, is no more. The Orange County Register reports that the mile-long above-ground tunnel that has sat adjacent to the Space X campus since 2017 was dismantled and hauled away last week. Construction on a Space X employee parking.

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Hyperloop, is it just SyFy or a reality?

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By Kimberly Kelly Entrepreneur Elon Musk has envisioned an ultra fast transportation system called Hyperloop. The Hyperloop is not only fast but it would be two times faster than the fastest commercial train in the world. Musk projects that the cost of the Hyperloop rail will be under $6 billion dollars.

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Virgin Hyperloop selects West Virginia to test its futuristic transport system

The Verge

Virgin Hyperloop One announced its plan to build a $500 million certification center to advance its vision of the future of high-speed transportation in West Virginia. The state will serve as a locus for testing, developing, and validating the technology that underpins the still-theoretical hyperloop system.

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Virgin Hyperloop explains how its pods will connect cities at 670 mph

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Virgin Hyperloop aims to create high-speed pods that use magnetic levitation to connect cities at 670 mph. Read More.