Why does Elon Musk think his design for a closed-tube transport system is possible, and also cheaper than high-speed trains? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.

It goes by the name of Hyperloop. Virgin Hyperloop recently ran the first-ever passenger test of a Hyperloop vehicle, reaching 100 mph on a short test track. Spawned from an “alpha paper” put ...

It's a hyperloop – magnetic pods levitating inside a tube at more than 1,000 kilometers per hour. In theory, you could go from LA to San Francisco in just 45 minutes with tickets less than $100 ...

Like Musk's plan, the design called for a magnetic track. Throughout the 20th century, scientists and science fiction writers imagined transit systems that would work like a Hyperloop. In the 1956 ...

MUMBAI - India's western state of Maharashtra has granted infrastructure project status for a $10-billion plan to build the world's first ultra-fast hyperloop project, aiming to link the financial hub ...

IIT Madras with support from the Ministry of Railways, has developed a 422-meter-long, India's first hyperloop test track. With this, 350 km can be covered in just 30 minutes. This means you can ...

The startup touts its self-driving, small-scale transit system as a cost-effective solution to urban mobility. But with its ...

India recently marked a milestone by building a 422m hyperloop test track, aiming for speeds over 1,000km per hour, which ...

Dubai is also no stranger to Musk 's particular brand of snake oil projects. Back in 2016, Musk's Hyperloop One transportation tube company signed a deal with the UAE to build a Hyperloop network ...

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)-incubated deep-tech TuTr Hyperloop is partnering with multiple national and international stakeholders to drive hyperloop technology in India.