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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has announced plans for a commercial Hyperloop system for the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi. All things going to plan, it will be ready just in time for Expo 2020, a festival of human ingenuity to be hosted by nearby Dubai.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to hold a public unveiling of the Toulouse facility sometime later in 2018

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Pieces fall into place for new Hyperloop test track in France

Startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has been quite busy signing deals to explore the potential of high-speed transport routes all around the world. It is now welcoming the tubes that will make up its first test track in Toulouse, France.

Virgin Hyperloop One has previously flagged a network spanning the Gulf region, connecting metropolises such as Kuwait City, Jedda in Saudi Arabia and Muscat in Oman

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Virgin Hyperloop One shows off shiny new passenger pod for Saudi Arabia

Virgin Hyperloop One has welcomed the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to a test facility in the Mojave Desert, showing off a specially branded passenger pod as the county looks to accelerate its efforts to get the futuristic transport system up and running.

Images of Virgin Hyperloop One's prototype pod show a very spacious cabin

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Virgin Hyperloop One shows off a passenger pod in Dubai

Virgin Hyperloop One has been making inroads in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a little while. Now it has unveiled a prototype pod developed together with Dubai's transport authority, offering locals a little glimpse at a potential future of subsonic tube travel.

Virgin Hyperloop One says a link between Pune and Mumbai could cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 150,000 tons a year

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Branson's Virgin Hyperloop One to build test track in India

Together with the local government, Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop One has today announced plans to build a 25-minute Hyperloop connection between the Indian cities of Pune and Mumbai, which is currently a two-hour trip by car.

A fully functioning Hyperloop system would have levitating passenger and cargo pods shuttled through near-vacuum tubes at around 700 mph (1,126 km/h)

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Study begins on first Hyperloop to cross US state lines

Startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has signed an agreement with local authorities to start investigating the feasibility of an interstate Hyperloop system for the first time in the US, a tube that would link the cities of Cleveland and Chicago.

Though the app won't be made publicly available until later in the year, the company is showing it off at CES in Las Vegas

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Virgin Hyperloop One's travel app maps out a future of supersonic travel

A fully functional Hyperloop system remains years away, but that hasn't stopped one of the startups vying to build it bringing out an app for folks to book a ride. Virgin Hyperloop One has rolled up to this year's CES with a demo version of an app designed to handle the entire passenger experience.

A hyperloop system across the state of Missouri would connect five million residents, according to the newly formed Missouri Hyperloop Coalition

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Proposed Missouri hyperloop would forge 25-minute connection across the state

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MDOT) is the latest government body to latch onto the idea of supersonic tube travel, heading up a coalition of public-private partners to push for the construction of a hyperloop that would allow for a 25-minute trip across the length of the state.

Hyperloop One's prototype pod at its test facility in the Nevada desert

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Hyperloop One gets a fresh injection of cash

There are a number of startups working on Elon Musk's Hyperloop, but none are gathering quite the momentum of Hyperloop One. The company has today announced US$85 million in new funding, as it looks to move forward with the development of routes around the world.

A Hyperloop system would shuttle people and cargo through near-vacuum tubes at around the speed of sound

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Hyperloop One challenge outlines 10 high-potential routes

Hyperloop One's Global Challenge is an XPrize-style competition to draw out the globe's brightest ideas for the most promising Hyperloop routes. The company has today announced the 10 winners, with potential routes spanning three continents and more than 6,000 km (3,700 mi) worth of track.

India's first Hyperloop could connect the cities of Amaravati and Vijayawada

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India boards the Hyperloop bandwagon

India is the latest nation to make plans for its own Hyperloop, with the south eastern state of Andhra Pradesh signing a deal with startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to build a high-speed transport route between two of its major cities.

A Hyperloop test facility at Elon Musk's SpaceX headquarters

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Impatient Elon moves ahead with Hyperloop plans of his own

In the four or so years since Elon Musk first revealed his Hyperloop concept, it was kind of assumed that the serial entrepreneur was simply too busy to take on the project himself. Reports now indicate the South African billionaire is moving full steam ahead with a Hyperloop of his own.