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Elon Musk Is Raising $500 Million In Funding For SpaceX

Elon Musk Is Raising $500 Million In Funding For SpaceX

Elon Musk is looking for a few good investors. The billionaire inventor behind Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly known as SpaceX, is seeking $500 million in the hopes of getting his internet service business up and running. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has a valuation of an astonishing $30.5 billion. The money […]

6y ago

Elon Musk Says First High-Speed Boring Tunnel Will Open In December

Elon Musk Says First High-Speed Boring Tunnel Will Open In December

Elon Musk has just revealed that his highly anticipated Boring Company tunnel will be officially open on December 10. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter on Sunday to tell the world that the high-speed subway concept is “almost done.” According to the Los Angeles Times, Musk’s Boring Co. tunnel beneath the city of Hawthorne will […]

6y ago

Elon Musk Envisions 150-Mile-Per-Hour Ride Will Cost Hyperloop Passengers $1

Elon Musk Envisions 150-Mile-Per-Hour Ride Will Cost Hyperloop Passengers $1

Elon Musk, The Boring Company, and its new reasonably priced hyperloop are certainly not… well, boring. Although visions of the future often include flying cars, Musk believes they won’t work, but his solution is a Hyperloop. The SpaceX founder unveiled his concept for the Loop, which he called a “personalized mass transit” system, according to […]

6y ago

Richard Branson Wants Hyperloop Operational ASAP, Says Transport Technology Will ‘Bring The World Much Closer’

Richard Branson Wants Hyperloop Operational ASAP, Says Transport Technology Will ‘Bring The World Much Closer’

As reported by TechCrunch, Richard Branson revealed that hyperloop transportation may become a reality in as little as two or three years. A hyperloop is an innovative form of ground transportation that includes a series of tubes or tunnels where a pod can float by magnetic elevation at very high speeds. The pods will also […]

6y ago

Hyperloop Is Coming: What You Need To Know

Hyperloop Is Coming: What You Need To Know

Imagine ground travel at 700 miles per hour. That’s faster than the top speed of a 787 Dreamliner. Just think how fast you could get somewhere. What if you could walk down the street of your nearest big city and access this mode of travel? If Elon Musk has anything to say about it, it […]

7y ago

Hyperloop To Whisk Passengers From NY To DC In 29 Minutes — Musk Gets Verbal OK

Hyperloop To Whisk Passengers From NY To DC In 29 Minutes — Musk Gets Verbal OK

Elon Musk’s dream is closer to a reality today now that the “verbal” green light has been passed down from the government for this new mode of ground transportation that can travel up to 700 mph. The Hyperloop is set to come off Elon Musk’s drawing board and materialize in the not so very distant […]

7y ago

A Train Into Space? Startram Project Could Make Colonizing Mars Easier

A Train Into Space? Startram Project Could Make Colonizing Mars Easier

There has been a lot of talk recently about reusable rockets and asteroid mining making space travel cheaper, but a proposed idea for a maglev train into space might be the real answer. Using existing maglev technology, the Startram project proposes to launch people and cargo down a 1,000-mile long tunnel 12 miles high at […]

8y ago

Hyperloop One Prototype Tested: Commuter Evolution Or Impractical Money Pit

Hyperloop One Prototype Tested: Commuter Evolution Or Impractical Money Pit

Hyperloop One (formerly Hyperloop Technologies) tested a prototype propulsion system in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas. The sled accelerated to 100 mph in one second. Time reported the prototype as the first in a race to create an ultra-fast commuter transportation system. The vision is to have a rail or tube system capable of […]

8y ago

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Dream Is Becoming A Reality — LA To San Francisco In 36 Minutes

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Dream Is Becoming A Reality — LA To San Francisco In 36 Minutes

When Elon Musk introduced the world to the idea of traveling from LA to San Francisco in half the time it takes on a plane, it was only a matter of time before transportation prototypes that support this idea were put on the table. To elaborate, a Hyperloop is essentially a long tube that has […]

8y ago

Hyperloop: MIT Wins SpaceX Pod Design Competition

Hyperloop: MIT Wins SpaceX Pod Design Competition

The ability to transport has been the biggest element in our country’s ability to prosper. By ship, by train, by car, by plane and now… by Hyperloop. You could be riding the hyperloop by 2018 » https://t.co/sXEXxecUZlhttps://t.co/GNyBbVGD0w — CNBC (@CNBC) January 22, 2016 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has plans to transform the way […]

8y ago

Hyperloop: Nevada Testing To Begin In 2016

Hyperloop: Nevada Testing To Begin In 2016

Hyperloop will begin testing in Nevada in early 2016. In a December 7 blog post, Hyperloop Technologies Inc. confirmed they have secured a 50-acre site in North Las Vegas and are currently working out the finer details of their highly anticipated Propulsion Open Air Test. As stated on the company’s official website, Hyperloop is a […]

9y ago

Technology News: Ultra-Fast Train To Be Tested In California

Technology News: Ultra-Fast Train To Be Tested In California

The quest for an ultra-fast train has taken a step forward. California will be building a train track to test the “hyperloop” train system. The test track is set to be five miles long and run along Interstate 5. The company building this train test track is Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. They are not affiliated with […]

9y ago

Hyperloop May Be Possible, Not Really, But Sort Of

Hyperloop May Be Possible, Not Really, But Sort Of

Elon Musk, Tesla’s very ambitious founder, came up with the idea for a Hyperloop transportation system that would transport people faster than any plane or train can. The plans were real and Musk put them out for everyone to see. However, he pulled himself away from the project, stating that it was not the right […]

11y ago

Elon Musk Turning Into Real Life Tony Stark

Elon Musk Turning Into Real Life Tony Stark

Elon Musk is just a flying metal suit short of becoming comic book hero Tony Stark. The SpaceX founder and innovative genius has unveiled a series of futuristic designs, the latest of which seems fitting for a real-life Iron Man. Musk and the other engineers at SpaceX just unveiled plans to combine a gesture-sensing controller, […]

11y ago

Hyperloop Physics Explained For Elon Musk’s Dream

Hyperloop Physics Explained For Elon Musk’s Dream

The Hyperloop by Elon Musk seems improbable, but can the Hyperloop work as advertised? As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is already being criticized as being too ambitious. Elon Musk estimates the Hyperloop could be built for $6 billion if only for personal transport. The Hyperloop would cost $10 billion if larger […]

11y ago

Elon Musk Plans For Hyperloop Are Too Ambitious, Critics Say

Elon Musk Plans For Hyperloop Are Too Ambitious, Critics Say

Elon Musk has some lofty plans for the Hyperloop, a system of travel using tubes that will make New York to Los Angeles trips in close to an hour. But critics say Musk’s plans for the high-speed transit system are too ambitious, pointing out the Elon Musk himself seems to regret bringing it up. On […]

11y ago

Hyperloop Plans Will Be Released Today From Elon Musk

Hyperloop Plans Will Be Released Today From Elon Musk

Later today, Elon Musk is expected to release detailed information regarding his Hyperloop travel system. Although he recently announced that he regrets having ever mentioned the Hyperloop, he will still follow through on his promise and release plans for the system on Monday. The Hyperloop should provider faster travel than an airplane while costing less […]

11y ago

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop: Is It The 5th Form Of Transportation?

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop: Is It The 5th Form Of Transportation?

On Monday SpaceX, Tesla, and PayPal founder Elon Musk will announce his new Hyperloop system, a new form of transportation that will cut the travel time from Los Angeles to San Francisco down to just minutes. Many experts are positing that Musk’s new system will join boats, planes, trains, and automobiles as the 5th form […]

11y ago

Elon Musk Hyperloop: NY To LA In 45 Minutes

Elon Musk Hyperloop: NY To LA In 45 Minutes

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop would transport passengers from New York to Los Angeles in around 45 minutes. The high-speed transport system could affect travel worldwide. The Hyperloop will likely operate on a vacuum tube system, which are most commonly used by banks. The vacuum system, combined with magnetic levitation, could allow for speeds up to 700 […]

11y ago

Hyperloop: Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants High-Speed System Traveling L.A. To NY In One Hour

Hyperloop: Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants High-Speed System Traveling L.A. To NY In One Hour

A Hyperloop system proposed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk would create a hyper-speed transportation system that can bring passengers from New York to Los Angeles in less than an hour, and it uses the technology you see inside your bank. The high-speed transportation system, known as the Hyperloop, is a tube transportation system that allows […]

11y ago

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