Donghu Laboratory
World record achieved by Chinese researchers. Prototype that has reached this peak is similar to a chassis.
Chinese researchers managed to accelerate a vehicle of testing magnetic levitation from one ton to 700 kilometers per hour in just two secondsbreaking the world record, state television CCTV announced today.
The experiment was conducted by a team from the National University of Defense Technology, who tested a prototype similar to a chassis on a magnetic levitation track with 400 meters long.
Second to CCTV, treatment-is-given highest speed ever recorded for platforms of this type, integrating a superconducting electrical magnetic levitation system.
The images released show the structure moving enveloped in steam, with almost instantaneous acceleration and abrupt braking at the end of the journey.
The breakthrough was achieved after 10 agains of research and development, allowing technical challenges to be overcome such as electromagnetic propulsion at “ultra-high” speeds, guided electric suspension, high-power transient energy storage and the application of high-field superconducting magnets.
According to CCTV, the results of the experiment offer new possibilities for the future of magnetic levitation transportation in vacuum tubes (or “hyperloop”) in China and to assist with aerospace launch and high-speed experimental tests.
Since 2004, the year in which Shanghai opened its first low-speed line between the city’s outskirts and Pudong airport, the development of this technology has been largely financed by the Chinese authorities.
In 2021, China presented the , with a maximum speed of 600 km/h, manufactured in Qingdao after five years of development, a record that was setsurpassed in June this year by a Chinese maglev that — and which promises to reach 800 km/h.
The vehicle, weighing 1.1 tons, was able to accelerate to 650 km/h in just 7 seconds on a 1,000 meter stretch, what I already surpassed the fastest train in the world at the time — the , which speeds up to 603 km/h.
In 2022, Chengdu Jiaotong University successfully tested a 2.8-ton vehicle capable of levitating at a height of 35 millimeters on a highway in the east of the country.
