The concept of Hyperloop divides the historical actors of the rail.
The two European leaders, the French Alstom and the German Siemens, solicited, decided not to participate in these projects unlike the Spanish CAF and the Japanese Hitachi Rail.
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We studied this concept in order to understand the business model, to see what needs Hyperloop could meet, to understand if the future was to go ever faster.
We have another vision of the mobility of the future: we believe that the challenge is to increase the transport capacity of rail infrastructure through digitalisation to achieve the decarbonisation of transport, which is a vital societal issue
", explains Laurent Bouyer, CEO of Siemens Mobility France.
Same posture at Alstom, where the concept and the technologies have been the subject of in-depth analyses.
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To date, we have not seen any prototype circulate at the speeds envisaged, and this without speaking of passengers on board”,
notes Bruno Marguet, president…
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