Ready To build Hyperloop between Mumbai and Pune: HTT Co-Founder Gresta
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The company is also working with 25 Indians, including two Indian companies, to build the transportation system, which involves shooting tubes in a vacuum chamber across vast distances-Hyperloop.
"There are two Indian companies working with us. One is a maker of the tubes, another is an engineering company. I can't name them right now though. But in total we have about 25 people from India working on the Hyperloop,” Gresta told ET.
According to Gresta, India planning on spending thousands of crores to build bullet trains to boost the country's transportation infrastructure is a bad idea.
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He also said that India needs hyperloop because of the bad conditions transportation.
"I think India is a perfect country to implement this project because the roads are not that good. Here the transportation is not capable to sustain a growth in a country like India," he said.
Among the prominent cities and countries where the Hyperloop will be built are California, Utah, Illinois, Florida, Indianapolis, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Spain, France, Slovakia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Botswana, South
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