Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One‘s chief executive officer Rob Lloyd, senior vice-president global field operations Nick Earle, and executive chairman and co-founder Shervin Pishevar were in New Delhi end February to showcase their ‘Vision for India’ to mark their official launch in the country.
The event convened India’s five semifinalist teams from the Hyperloop One Global Challenge, along with a roster of government officials, media, urbanists, and transportation specialists. The teams shortlisted from more than 100 applications, were AECOM, LUX Hyperloop Network, Dinclix GroundWorks, Hyperloop India and Infi-Alpha. Each put forward a comprehensive and commercially viable transport plan covering economic and policy aspects of their respective cities and regions, reports Mint.
Shervin Pishevar, executive chairman of Hyperloop said, ‘India is an extremely important geography for developing Hyperloop networks and re-imagining how cities and regions work. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for transforming India and the role he sees for technology in driving this change is indeed remarkable,’ he added.