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Have you ever heard of Hyperloop<\/a>? This conceptual mode of high-speed transportation has been imagined by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk a couple years ago. Since then, two Hyperloop companies have popped out -even though Musk is not affiliated with any of them.<\/p>\n It turns out that – according to BFMBusiness<\/a>, France’s SNCF, is among the backers of\u00a0Hyperloop Technologies<\/a>. Indeed, the state-owned railway company participated in their new $80M series B funding -along with other VC firms such as General Electric Ventures, Khosla Ventures,137 Ventures or Zhenfund.<\/p>\n Hyperloop Technologies<\/a>\u00a0is trying to develop the revolutionary type of transportation\u00a0incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on air cushions. The tube could someday transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes at a top speed of 1,200 kph, or 760mph. Three times faster than a conventional high speed train, and almost two times the speed of commercial air-liners. Last year, SNCF chief executive Guillaume Pepy told L’Obs magazine<\/a> that: “Hyperloop is a project that is both crazy and visionary. We are following it very closely.”<\/p>\n SNCF which has been first Alstom client for the TGV, has always felt the need to invest in the future: “We are very interested in a collaboration with Hyperloop Technologies, its a disruptive technology like the TGV, we need to apprehend the innovations that are likely to happen in 10 to 15 years”, also commented Guillaume P\u00e9py during a panel he shared with Hyperloop Tech’s Co-Founder and CEO\u00a0Brogan Banbrogan<\/a>,\u00a0at the 2nd Economy Summit<\/a> organized\u00a0last year by Challenges.<\/p>\n The company is expected to demo its propulsion system latter this year in North Las Vegas, where they’re currently building their test track.<\/p>\n The first Hyperloop Technologies installation\u00a0should be completed in Sloviakia, as the Easter European country recently signed a contract with the company to link Bratislava, Vienna and Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever heard of Hyperloop? This conceptual mode of high-speed transportation has been imagined by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk a couple years ago. Since then, two Hyperloop companies have popped out -even though Musk is not affiliated with any of them. It turns out that – according to BFMBusiness, France’s SNCF, is among the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":33493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[1545],"class_list":["post-33491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-sncf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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