Hyperloop One, the futuristic transportation company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is shutting down, according to people familiar ...

The tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and turns on its route to failure. While Marketplace’s Lily ...

Elon Musk described a dazzling vision: a transit system that could hurl passengers between cities at nearly the speed of sound. His paper on the topic spurred a cohort of big-thinking entrepreneurs to ...

Elon Musk is very much an ideas man. He regularly comes out with elaborate solutions to the world's problems. His musings have included robotaxis, nuking the Martians, and brain chips capable of ...

U.S. Senate Energy Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and his ranking committee counterpart today were on opposite sides of whether the federal government should fund superspeed transportation of ...

Elon Musk's ultrafast, vacuum-sealed hyperloop has seemed like a (literal) pipe dream for years, but new legislation on its way to the U.S. Senate could finally pave a path forward for this futuristic ...

Hyperloops burst onto the scene in 2013. Elon Musk detailed a new type of train service in a low-pressure tube that would reach speeds up to 760 mph. The train would float on a cushion of air and be ...

Hyperloop is considered by many to be the future of transport. Credit: Zeleros Hyperloop. On 1 June, Spanish company Zeleros Hyperloop has announced the completion of a €7m financing round to foster a ...

Hyperloop, the futuristic transport system first conceived by Elon Musk, has been included in a landmark trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that passed through the US Senate on Tuesday. Two companies ...

The futuristic method of moving people and goods, first outlined in a 2013 white paper, is designed to hit potential maximum speeds of over 700 mph. That could make it faster than a jet engine, ...