Physical installations
Where hyperloop hardware actually is.
A concrete register of test tracks, tubes, capsules and labs: location, operator, status and source.
Swisspod Pueblo Test Track
Swisspod / MxV Rail · PuebloPlex, Pueblo, Colorado
World’s largest active hyperloop test track as of 2025. AERYS 1 capsule reached 146 km/h (planned expansion to a one-mile closed loop).
Length: 520 m
European Hyperloop Center
Hyperloop Development Program / Hardt Hyperloop · Veendam, Province of Groningen
Open innovation facility featuring a 420 m tube and the world’s first full-scale lane switch for hyperloop systems.
Length: 420 m
IIT Madras Hyperloop Test Track
IIT Madras / Avishkar Hyperloop / TuTr Hyperloop · Discovery Campus, Thaiyur, Chennai
Asia’s first student-led hyperloop test track. Initial runs reached 100 km/h; the facility hosts the Global Hyperloop Competition.
Length: 422 m
CASIC T-Flight Low-Vacuum Maglev Test Line
CASIC / Shanxi Province · Yanggao County, Shanxi Province
2 km low-vacuum tube for full-scale maglev testing. The vehicle is designed for 1,000 km/h and is the longest full-size hyperloop-type installation currently operating.
Length: 2.0 km
HyperloopTT Toulouse R&D Center
HyperloopTT · Francazal Airport, Toulouse
Europe’s first full-scale hyperloop test track. Operations and equipment were relocated to Italy in 2024 following the HyperTransfer tender award.
Length: 320 m
Virgin Hyperloop One DevLoop
Virgin Hyperloop One / Hyperloop One · Apex Industrial Park, North Las Vegas, Nevada
Full-scale test track where pods reached 192 mph in 2017. The company shut down in 2023 and the site was put up for sale.
Length: 500 m
Swisspod / EPFL LIMITLESS Test Loop
Swisspod / EPFL DESL · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1:12 scale reduced-pressure loop used for propulsion and levitation research. Broke the world record for the longest hyperloop trial in equivalent full-scale distance.
Length: 126 m
Hardt Hyperloop Delft Test Facility
Hardt Hyperloop · Delft
Early Hardt test and levitation research facility that preceded the European Hyperloop Center in Veendam.
Nevomo Magrail Test Track
Nevomo · Sarzyna / Nowa Wieś, Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Europe’s longest Magrail test track; used to demonstrate levitation on conventional railway infrastructure.
Length: 700 m
TUM Hyperloop Demonstrator
Technical University of Munich / NEXT Prototypes e.V. · Ottobrunn / Taufkirchen, Munich
First full-scale hyperloop segment in Europe; used for vacuum tests with a passenger pod.
Length: 24 m
goTube — Institute of Hyperloop Technology
Hochschule Emden/Leer / Hyperloop Development Program · Emden, Lower Saxony
Steel vacuum tube (1.6 m diameter) for freight-related low-pressure tests; inaugurated in March 2025.
Length: 27 m
EuroTube DemoTube
EuroTube Foundation / Swisspod / EPFL · Dübendorf / Zurich Innovation Park
DemoTube phase 1 operational since 2024; composite-material research loop under construction at Zurich Innovation Park.
Zeleros SELF Port of Sagunto Test Track
Zeleros Hyperloop · Port of Sagunto, Valencia
Cargo demonstrator for container handling inside the port; construction started in 2022. Zeleros filed for insolvency in April 2026.
Length: 100 m
KORAIL Hyper-Tube Test Facility
Korea Railroad Research Institute · Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do
1:17 scale vacuum-tube model that reached 1,019 km/h in 2020 at 0.001 atm pressure.
Length: 60 m
Southwest Jiaotong University HTS Maglev Loop
Southwest Jiaotong University · Chengdu, Sichuan
Circular low-vacuum track with high-temperature superconducting maglev prototype; 620 km/h demonstrated in 2021.
Length: 45 m
SpaceX Hyperloop Test Track
SpaceX · Hawthorne, California
One-mile tube used for the Hyperloop Pod Competition (2015–2019); TUM/WARR record 463 km/h in 2019. Dismantled in 2022.
Length: 1.6 km
Hyper Transfer Test Track
HyperloopTT / Webuild / Leonardo / Hyperloop Italia / CAV · Venice–Padua corridor, Veneto
Planned ~10 km certification and test track following the completed feasibility study; commercial line subject to further approvals.
Length: 10.0 km