16 Facts About Hyperloop

Hyperloop is a proposed high-speed transportation system for both public and goods transport.

Hyperloop systems comprise three essential elements: tubes, pods, and terminals.

Hyperloop has its roots in a concept by George Medhurst in 1799 and subsequently developed under the names pneumatic railway, atmospheric railway or vactrain.

Hyperloop concept has been promoted by Musk and SpaceX, and other companies or organizations have been encouraged to collaborate and develop the technology.

Hyperloop concept operates by sending specially designed "capsules" or "pods" through a steel tube maintained at a partial vacuum.

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Hyperloop is for transport between cities, and that would go much faster than 150 mph.

On 22 February 2018, Hyperloop One entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra to build a hyperloop transportation system between Mumbai and Pune that would cut the travel time from the current 180 minutes to 20 minutes.

In 2016, Hyperloop One published the world's first detailed business case for a 300-mile route between Helsinki and Stockholm, which would tunnel under the Baltic Sea to connect the two capitals in under 30 minutes.

Hyperloop One undertook a feasibility study with DP World to move containers from its Port of Jebel Ali in Dubai.

In late 2016, Hyperloop One announced a feasibility study with Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority for passenger and freight routes connecting Dubai with the greater United Arab Emirates.

Hyperloop One was considering passenger routes in Moscow during 2016, and a cargo hyperloop to connect Hunchun in north-eastern China to the Port of Zarubino, near Vladivostok and the North Korean border on Russia's Far East.

In May 2016, Hyperloop One kicked off their Global Challenge with a call for comprehensive proposals of hyperloop networks around the world.

In September 2017, Hyperloop One selected 10 routes from 35 of the strongest proposals: Toronto–Montreal, Cheyenne–Denver–Pueblo, Miami–Orlando, Dallas–Laredo–Houston, Chicago–Columbus–Pittsburgh, Mexico City–Guadalajara, Edinburgh–London, Glasgow–Liverpool, Bengaluru–Chennai, and Mumbai–Chennai.

TUM Hyperloop is a research program that emerged in 2019 from the team of hyperloop pod competition from the Technical University of Munich.

Hyperloop has questioned what would happen if the power were to go out when the pod was miles away from a city.

Hyperloop demonstrated a scale prototype device that accelerated an object using magnetic propulsion to high speeds.