Tubes and Windmills While companies have encountered major headwinds in turning the Hyperloop, an entirely new and unproven form of transportation, into a reality, the European Hyperloop Center is still hoping to open the first functional track by the end of the decade. The non-profit foundation has opened a new quarter-mile test tube made out […]
Europe's longest hyperloop testing facility has opened in the Netherlands. Europe's longest hyperloop testing facility has opened in the Netherlands, offering a platform for research and development in the field of high-speed transportation, according to a report by AFP.
News last year that both Elon Musk and Richard Branson’s Virgin were dialling down their hyperloop projects suggested that time was being called on turning the combination of vacuum tubes and magnetic levitation into a practical mode of transport. But the idea is not dead in Europe. An international Hyperloop Association was announced this year, to be based in Brussels, and testing infrastructure is planned at a number of European locations.