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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by creshal on Thursday February 04, 2016 @08:35AM (#11033758)
> German ICE trains usually peak at 300 km/h on selected tracks

So selected, in fact, that the DB is currently procuring over 300 ICEs limited to 250 km/h, and a grand total of 17 (with an option of up to two more!) that peak at 320 km/h.

I'll call myself lucky if the train manages 180 km/h on my usual routes.

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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by welterde on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:23AM (#11034462)
You dropped the small detail that those new ICEs are going to replace IC and EC trains first. And those usually run below 250 km/h. And only in a later phase they are going to replace ICE 1 and ICE 2 trains, which can only go 280 km/h.. so not a huge downgrade.

They are not a replacement for those trains running fast services (with legs with 300 km/h in them).

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