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Richard Branson’s Virgin #Hyperloop partners with backer #DP_World to launch logistics startup | TechCrunch
▻https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/29/richard-bransons-virgin-hyperloop-partners-with-backer-dp-world-to-launc

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Virgin Hyperloop One and DP World are launching a new joint venture, #DP_World_Cargospeed, two years after the high-speed transportation technology developer tapped the UAE-based shipping company in a $50 million financing.

The company’s stated goal is to deliver palletized cargo more efficiently by combining super high-speed promise of hyperloop transportation with new logistics technologies to accelerate deliveries along Virgin Hyperloop One’s planned routes between Mumbai and Pune in India; in Saudi Arabia, and in the United Arab Emirates.

Announced with much fanfare and in the presence of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Virgin Hyperloop chairman Richard Branson, the new company is basically built on buzzwords like “on-demand” and the promise of future performance.

Right now there’re only 10 kilometers of Virgin Hyperloop track being built (and they’re all in India).

Although there’s not much more than a bunch of pontificating palaver around hyperloop technologies now, the startup companies and their corporate backers do present an compelling vision of the future of transportation.

Introducing DP World Cargospeed
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQIihCOrvZY

Touring Hyperloop One’s ever-evolving test site
▻https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/12/virgin-hyperloop-one-test-site-tour

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For the first time since May 2016, the site was opened up to a handful of journalists this week during CES. Hyperloop One was a vastly different company. Back then, it was led by original co-founders Brogan BamBrogan and Shervin Pishevar — the former quit a few months after an alleged falling out with Pishevar’s brother. The latter would depart at the tail end of 2017, forced out after becoming embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. In their place, Richard Branson has stepped in as chairperson, rebranding the company as Virgin Hyperloop One.

#disruption #transport

World Map Shows What a Hyperloop Future May Look Like | Inverse

▻https://www.inverse.com/article/26459-hyperloop-one-map-global-underground-system

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The vacuum-sealed hyperloop train system came one step closer to reality last week, when a company working on bringing the transit system to life announced the next step in a global competition. Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One has selected 35 teams as finalists in its global challenge, who will now present regional proposals at three different showcases starting next month.

“It’s more than just a train, or a pod in a tube,” Josh Giegel, Hyperloop One’s president of engineering, told Inverse. “We’re taking it to a level of connectivity and really being the high-speed backbone of the future transportation network.”

#cartographie #futur #imaginire #hyper-loop