Nothing significant. It was cleared to continue with conditions.
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Maybe it’s my eyes, but they look more squarish than your typical train (eg 390), even if not an exact square.
The link I used includes:One of those conditions is exiting the joint venture with Hitachi.
[EU / Expert] It's official: EU approves Alstom/Bombardier Transportation merger
It's official: the 31st of July 2020 marks the day the European Union approved the takeover of the railway rolling stock manufacturing division of Canadian company Bombardier by the French railway rolling stock manufacturing company Alstom. This approval comes with a few conditions.When the EU r
I.e. preserving the bid despite Bombardier's divestment — so that Hitachi's now-solo effort does not cause a re-tender.
Agreed. This is probably just a quick render put out by the press department, I don't think it's worth reading too much into it.
All the Shinkansen that Hitachi have been involved wit, despite having enclosed bogies, fabric smoothing between carriages, elegantly sculpted noses etc still have pressure-sealed sliding doors
Have Hitachi been involved in any shared bogie/articulated designs? At High Speed, seems to Alstom doing the conventional shared bogies, and Talgo doing their thing, whilst anyone else does fully bogie vehicles.
To be fair, the Chinese 'Fuxing' trains which run at 220mph in service, and have traditional designs.
Alstom also do up to 155mph in service with traditional designs (non-tilt Pendolino).
Talgo isn't really a bogie, Alstom & Stadler use articulated, everyone else normal, the ICE trains have been running with normal bogies for decades.
No it means that Alstom takes over Bombardier’s share of the JV for HS2 if that JV bid is successful in winning the tender. The high speed remedy for the UK means that in future high speed tenders Hitachi has the option to license the product it has jointly developed with Bombardier to compete with the new Alstom (and others of course)
How could Alstom have its own bid for the HS2 rolling stock (eg https://www.alstom.com/press-releases-news/2019/6/alstom-unveils-proposed-hs2-train-design) as well as being in a joint venture with Hitachi? This is why it has had to divest the Bombardier-Hitachi development as part of its acquisition of Bombardier.
The tender precluded articulated designs, fairly standard UIC non France spec - e.g. 25.0m centre cars and no articulation.
Not really a problems as Alstom's own bid is very unlikely to get in the top 2 on technical scoring, hence it would need a near suicidal burning of their remaining cash pile from the heavy electrical asset sales to GE* (very well timed) to make an overall competitive bid. Hence they only have one competitive bid.
Who do you think is likely to be the top 2 then?The Bombardier - Hitachi HS2 submission is based on the existing Zefiro 300 for the Italian market aka Frecciarossa 1000, aka E.T.R. 400 or ETR 1000 that started off as joint venture between Bombardier and Ansaldo-Breda before Hitachi bought A-B. It also has to cope with similar classic compatible route issues - also recently chosen for Spanish HS stock.
Frecciarossa 1000 - Wikipedia
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The tender precluded articulated designs, fairly standard UIC non France spec - e.g. 25.0m centre cars and no articulation.
Not really a problems as Alstom's own bid is very unlikely to get in the top 2 on technical scoring, hence it would need a near suicidal burning of their remaining cash pile from the heavy electrical asset sales to GE* (very well timed) to make an overall competitive bid. Hence they only have one competitive bid.
*Passing the toxic bad luck of the ex-CE units to yet another owner ABB had lucky escape, it bankrupted Alstom once and was probably going to do it again till GE bought the falling knife.
Siemens and Bombardier-Hitachi.
Same factory as used for the Zefiro 300 final assembly.
