On Sunday, Elon Musk said on Twitter that he plans to test a Tesla and SpaceX-branded Hyperloop pod at half the speed of sound "soon." ...

Feat seen to catapult China into global top tier of ultra-high-speed maglev technology and unlock new possibilities for ...

China set a new maglev speed record after a 1.1-ton vehicle hit 435 mph in just two seconds on a short test track.

The Hyperloop has a need for speed and a team of students from the Technical University of Munich is providing it. At the third SpaceX pod contest on Sunday, Germany’s WARR Hyperloop team pulled off a ...

Remember hyperloops? The idea is to place passengers in pods and, using electromagnetic levitation, whisk the pods through giant tubes in a near vacuum at more than 600 mph. While it may still sound ...

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 -- ...

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The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors published his research plan earlier today. Aug. 12, 2013— -- "Pulled all nighter working on Hyperloop (as did others). Hopefully, not too many mistakes." That ...

SpaceX hosted its fourth annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals on Sunday at the test tube it built outside its Hawthorne HQ. We were on site for the competition, and watched as Team TUM, from ...

The dream of high-speed ground transportation that can whisk you from L.A. to San Francisco, from New York to Washington DC, or from London to Edinburgh in under 30 minutes became much more real ...