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  • When introduced to the world, hyperloops will reduce travel times between city centers from hours to minutes, promoting widespread economic expansion throughout connected regions while replacing current emissions-heavy travel options. HyperloopTT
  • By the end of this decade we will have a commercialized hyperloop system somewhere in the world. The New York Times
  • A recent US Department of Transportation study, for example, estimated that Hyperloop routes could be up to six times more energy efficient than air travel (on short routes). Surf Tech IT
  • Hyperloop Transportation Technologies have since been brought onboard and South Korea wants to have an operational route ready to go in 2024. hyperloophype.com
  • Toronto-based TransPod hopes to bring hyperloop technology to Canada with its eponymous tube-based transportation system powered by renewable energy. CNN
  • Innovations like Virgin's Hyperloop could one day see floating passenger pods hurtle through vacuum tubes at 966 km per hour. Euronews.com
  • Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has announced a freight project based in the port of Hamburg, which it claims will be able to shuttle 2800 standard shipping containers per day. Inverse
  • Virgin Hyperloop will provide hyperloop-enabled systems, facilitating fast, sustainable, and efficient delivery of palletised cargo around the world. electronics news
  • With further expansion of the hyperloop network in Europe, hyperloop could replace over 2,500 trucks daily in 2050 and offer a sustainable alternative to flights within Europe. hardt.global
  • Hyperloop could be up to six times more energy efficient than air travel on short routes. Observer
  • Waterloop's mission is to design and build a working, full-sized, scalable hyperloop pod by 2025 to demonstrate the future of a fully sustainable mode of transportation that can cut down travel time across Canada. University of Waterloo Magazine
  • Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop says it has completed the world's first passenger ride on a super high-speed levitating pod system, in a key safety test for a technology it hopes will transform human and cargo transportation. ABC (Australia)
  • Virgin Hyperloop is planning to build a certification center in West Virginia, with construction expected to begin in 2021. Construction Dive
  • There are plans for an EU regulatory framework for hyperloop systems with a legislative initiative for the third quarter of 2023. Bird & Bird
  • Elon Musks tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin full-scale testing of hyperloop a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in. Blogger
  • By 2025, Virgin Hyperloop hopes to have received all necessary safety certifications and be ready to begin commercial operations by 2030. Indovance Blog
  • TES is developing a diversified upstream green energy portfolio and accessing the best renewable locations to produce green hydrogen for imports beginning in 2025, for example, USA, Canada, South America, North and Southwest Africa, North Sea Region, Middle East and Australia. FuelCellsWorks
  • The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will soon have a new research capability to demonstrate large-scale power production using hydrogen fuel cells in an integrated energy system. NREL
  • Norwegian Hydrogen will develop, build, and operate production facilities and infrastructure for green hydrogen. Offshore Energy
  • Reducing emissions from existing Hydrogen production is a challenge but also presents an opportunity to increase the scale of clean Hydrogen worldwide. @indianscinews
  • Amazon signed an agreement with Plug Power to supply 10,950 tons per year of green hydrogen, which will replace grey hydrogen, diesel and other fossil fuels. Nation of Change
  • Shanghai plans to have 30 hydrogen stations and 10,000 vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells by 2023. FuelCellsWorks

Last updated: 24 March 2024



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