one of The american companies working on the project, Hyperloop, system, futuristic high-speed transportation, announced Tuesday the establishment of a centre of european research and development in the south-west, in Toulouse.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has to build premises on the former air base of Francazal, according to an agreement signed Tuesday morning by the officers of the society, Toulouse métropole, the region of Occitania, and the prefecture of the region, announce the partners in a joint press release. The center must include, in particular, local research and a test track “about 1 km”. “The first projects will be launched as early as 2017, with the establishment of the “50 direct jobs in a first time,” they add.
An investment of $ 40 million ($ 37.2 million euros) is planned over the next 5 years, according to the executives of the company, based in Playa Vista, California. The technology of the Hyperloop, seen by some as science fiction, would carry passengers in capsules flowing in a tube at low pressure, “at a speed of up to 1.200 km/h”.
Toulouse is the centre of the european aerospace industry, and it seems quite natural to have a presence here, alongside many of our partners and colleagues”, said in the press release Dirk Ahlborn, president and ceo of the start-up.
The project of Hyperloop was launched in 2013 by billionaire Elon Musk, already at the origin of electric cars Tesla and launcher of satellites SpaceX. Considering it does not have the time to devote to it, Elon Musk has left the project open to competing offers from several companies wishing to expand and has invested money in any of them.
on Wednesday, HTT announced the launch of a feasibility study for a potential connection between the Czech town of Brno and the Slovak capital, Bratislava, and even eventually Prague. A start-up canadian, TransPod, and another start-up american, Hyperloop One, are in the race to design the transportation system of the future.
Hyperloop One, in which it has invested, the SNCF, announced at the beginning of November the launch of a feasibility study to Uae to transport passengers and goods between Dubai and Abu Dhabi is 12 minutes, compared to an hour and a half on average today by the highway.
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