Hyperloop Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/hyperloop/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:00:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Hyperloop has not gone away https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/hyperloop-has-not-gone-away/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/hyperloop-has-not-gone-away/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:07:24 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10763 The hype over the Hyperloop concept may have died down in recent years, but there are still engineers working to make it a reality. A Swiss team from EPFL, the School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) and Swisspod Technologies, claim to have broken the record for the longest hyperloop test journey… scaled down. The […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/hyperloop-has-not-gone-away/feed/ 0 Spanish company gets funding to develop a Hyperloop system in Europe https://mechtraveller.com/2020/06/spanish-company-gets-funding-to-develop-a-hyperloop-system-in-europe/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/06/spanish-company-gets-funding-to-develop-a-hyperloop-system-in-europe/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:14:35 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6034 Zeleros Hyperloop, based in Valencia, has completed a financing round worth more than €7 million to support the development of its hyperloop design. The company is working on its own version of Elon Musk’s hyperloop concept – trains travelling at supersonic, even hypersonic, speed in near-vacuum tubes, riding on frictionless magnetic levitation (maglev), powered by […]

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