We might be yet to see a fully-formed Hyperloop in action, but that doesn't mean some international officials aren't already inspired by Elon Musk's futuristic transport system. According to local news reports, Russia is contemplating a Hyperloop-like project to connect the country from north to south, and east to west.
Local news service RBC reports that the first section of the proposed system would connect ports in the Baltic Sea with terminals in Moscow. A link between Moscow and St Petersburg, some 700 km (435 mi) apart, could follow thereafter.
"The cost of the project by western standards, US$21 billion, according to our standards, about half as much, $12 to $13 billion," Anatoly Zaitsev, head of St Petersburg Railway Innovation Development Centre, told RBC.
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