News / Hyperloop lists the attractions of €19bn 'mag-lev' Scandinavia link

11/07/2016

The development of an advanced magnetic levitation (mag-lev) rail line between Stockholm and Helsinki took another step forward as US firm Hyperloop One published its business case for the project.

In addition, the Finnish city of Salo has signed a letter of intent to become the first Hyperloop city on the proposed route.

Hyperloop is backed by US tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the brains behind the Tesla electric car company, and appears to be confounding critics of mag-lev technology by bringing it to the ...

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henric nauckhoff
July 11, 2016 at 4:29 pm
Exciting prospects, but unless the facts are correct, the whole message is given an aura of unreliability; air travel time between STO and HEL is 50 minutes by jet aircraft, not 3,5 hours.

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