Beijing, December 26 (EFECOM). – The magnetic levitation team at China’s National University of Defense Technology managed to successfully accelerate a one-ton test vehicle from 0 to 700 kilometers per hour (km/h) in just two seconds during a magnetic levitation test, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
This speed broke the world record for platforms of the same type and became the fastest test mark recorded for a superconducting electric magnetic levitation system, according to this media.
Images released by CCTV on Thursday show a chassis-like structure moving at high speed along a magnetic levitation train, enveloped in a cloud of steam, after almost instantaneously accelerating and suddenly decelerating at the end of the 400-meter-long track.
This advance, achieved after ten years of research and development, enabled it to overcome technical challenges such as “ultra-high” speed electromagnetic propulsion, electric suspension guidance, high-power transient energy storage reversal and high-field superconducting magnets, the chain said.
The test also provides new options for the future development of vacuum tube magnetic levitation (“Hyperloop”) transportation in China and provides new methods and means for aerospace launch support and experimental testing, the report said.
The development of maglev has been heavily funded by Chinese authorities since the technology was acquired in 2004, when Shanghai began operating a low-speed “maglev” train between the city’s outskirts and Pudong International Airport.
In September 2022, Chengdu Jiaotong University (Sichuan, Central) successfully tested a new magnetic levitation car on a highway in the east of the country, where the 2.8-ton vehicle hovered 35 millimeters above the road surface.
China also unveiled the world’s fastest magnetic levitation train in 2021, with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour, manufactured in the city of Qingdao after five years of research and development. EFECOM
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