Hyperloop project moves closer to reality with new engineering partners

You can keep calling it an ambitious pipe dream, but Elon Musk's brainchild known as the Hyperloop is moving ever closer to reality

The latest indication that the next-generation transport system should be taken seriously comes from Hyperloop Transportation Technologies' (HTT) announcement of the addition of Switzerland-based Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, Hodgetts + Fung Architects and Los Angeles engineering firm AECOM to its efforts

"We are proud to be a part of this exciting and groundbreaking project while delivering our vacuum know-how for this concept and thus to facilitate the Hyperloop vision to become reality," said Dr. Martin Fuellenbach, chief executive of Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, in an emailed statement. "We contribute in delivering our extensive expertise [and the] necessary calculations to create and maintain the partial vacuum that is needed to reach such high speeds." Read more...