Mumbai to build hyperloop infrastructure from December

Mumbai: Settle into a pod in a vacuum tube, fasten your seat belt and whizz across to Pune from Mumbai in 20 minutes. An interdepartmental panel for the hyperloop has been constituted.” The only working model right now is a test site built by Virgin’s Hyperloop One in the Nevada desert, which Fadnavis has visited. In February, Fadnavis signed an MoU with Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One to build the Mumbai-Pune track. Virgin Hyperloop One’s website estimates that the top speed for a passenger vehicle or light cargo will be 670 miles per hour. A recent report published by the McKinsey Global Institute said Mumbai needed $220 billion of investment in hard infrastructure and smart technology over the next 20 years to be “future-proof”.