{"id":29237,"date":"2016-08-22T19:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/indian-railways-eyeing-speed-with-gatimaan-express-talgo-trains-but-tesla-chief-elon-musks-hyperloop-is-a-game-changer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:01","slug":"indian-railways-eyeing-speed-with-gatimaan-express-talgo-trains-but-tesla-chief-elon-musks-hyperloop-is-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/indian-railways-eyeing-speed-with-gatimaan-express-talgo-trains-but-tesla-chief-elon-musks-hyperloop-is-a-game-changer","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways eyeing speed with Gatimaan Express, Talgo trains, but Tesla chief Elon Musk\u2019s Hyperloop is a game changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can see ads now with Ozzy\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train\u201d playing in the background.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no doubt India needs faster trains. The NDA government has set the ball rolling by launching the Gatimaan Express. Trials are on with the Spanish Talgo trains on the Delhi-Mumbai route and Japan has agreed to provide soft loans for the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. But, for achieving a one-time quantum jump in technology, the possibility of introducing the Hyperloop\u2014Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk\u2019s concept of moving people and goods at high speeds in capsules within tubes using powerful magnets\u2014could be a game-changer. Going by current speeds, Hyperloop can crunch a one-way Delhi-Mumbai trip to just one hour. The advantages are numerous\u2014much faster travel, limited land acquisition and lower building cost that could lead to cheaper travel.<\/p>\n

It is still early days as far as Hyperloop is concerned. Two companies, Hyperloop Technologies and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are in talks with 10 countries including China and India for introduction.<\/p>\n

India\u2019sinfrastructural issues could find faster resolution with Hyperloop\u2019s faster build-out compared to the bullet train where land acquisition could be a problem. India is considering various options to speed up the Railways\u2014this is one that the government should look at closely, given the technological leap-frogging it provides in high-speed connectivity between cities.<\/p>\n

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I can see ads now with Ozzy\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train\u201d playing in the background. There\u2019s no doubt India needs faster trains. The NDA government has set the ball rolling by launching the Gatimaan Express. Trials are on with the Spanish Talgo trains on the Delhi-Mumbai route and Japan has agreed to provide soft loans for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,1617,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-quantum-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions\/66481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}