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Echo Xie

Researchers in China have completed a road test for the country’s first maglev car, floating a modified sedan along a track using magnetic propulsion.
In the test, the 2.8 tonne car rose 35mm above the road’s surface before going an unspecified distance along the track, according to Xinhua Daily, a news outlet owned by Jiangsu’s Communist Party committee.
Developed by researchers from Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, the car is equipped with permanent electromagnets and guided by conducting rails installed on a section of the Gaochun-Xuancheng Expressway in Jiangsu province.
Deng Zigang, a professor and team leader at the university, said the test would inform future experiments.
“Our next step will be to focus on the development of the actual vehicle to realise the beautiful vision of seeing the first maglev car ‘floating up and running’,” Deng was quoted as saying in the report last week.
“This move will provide critical support for the development of maglev cars in China.”


China has become a leader in maglev transport in recent years.
It unveiled the world’s first commercial maglev line in Shanghai in 2004, using German technology to offer services with a top speed of 430km/h.
The nation’s first domestically developed commercial maglev train completed a series of tests in March, with a design speed of 200km/h. It is controlled by a ground system and could be operated without a driver on board, Xinhua reported.
“At present, China is accelerating the construction of urban metropolitan areas and municipal railways,” Yang Ying, a chief scientist with rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Corporation, told state news agency Xinhua in March.
“Maglev trains can provide another option for green and intelligent intercity transport.”
Zhang Wenyue, deputy head of CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive’s maglev research institute, said the trains were expected to be deployed on intercity and urban lines and run at 50-200km/h.


Chinese researchers are also working on high-speed maglev trains designed to reach speeds of up to 600km/h. One was put through its paces in a test in Qingdao, Shandong province, in July last year.
If the high-speed maglev trains go into service, the 1,000km trip between Beijing and Shanghai would be cut to 2½ hours, about half the time it takes by high-speed train now.
Last month, the nation launched the world’s first suspended maglev line built with permanent magnets, a system called the Red Rail, in eastern China’s Jiangxi province.
Unlike other maglev lines, the 800-metre experimental rail operates about 10 metres above the ground and runs at a speed of 80km/h.


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Chocks away for road test of China’s first maglev car

Researchers put China’s first maglev car through its paces. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese scientists say maglev ‘sky train’ floats without power using permanent magnets

A Chinese team has launched an experimental suspended maglev line built with permanent magnets that researchers say has the potential to be quieter, faster and more comfortable than conventional trains. Photo: Handout

The maximum speed of most domestic underground lines is about 80kph but a permanent magnet maglev train could be 50 per cent faster, says the research team. Photo: Handout

Local transport authorities said that after some test runs, the line would increase to 7.5km. Photo: Handout

In maglev innovation, Chinese researchers transfer power wirelessly to moving train

Power supply has been a major technological challenge for high-speed maglev trains. As China aims to be a transport superpower, a team of Chinese researchers has developed wireless power transfer for maglev trains. Photo: CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co

China gets rolling on new superfast maglev train

China’s new maglev transport system rolls off the production line in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua

(210720) -- QINGDAO, July 20, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Visitors experience for themselves inside a cabinet of China's new high-speed maglev train in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, July 20, 2021. China's new high-speed maglev train rolled off the production line on Tuesday. It has a designed top speed of 600 km per hour -- currently the fastest ground vehicle available globally. The new maglev transportation system made its public debut in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. It has been self-developed by China, marking the country's latest scientific and technological achievement in the field of rail transit, according to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

Hong Kong is part of national plan for high-speed maglev train network, transport ministry says

People visit a prototype of China’s new superfast maglev train in Chengdu in January. Photo: AFP

People visit a prototype magnetic levitation train developed with high-temperature superconducting (HTS) maglev technology at the launch ceremony in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province on January 13, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

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Researchers use magnetic propulsion to raise a sedan 35mm above a track
The country is a leader in the use of maglev technology, particularly in trains



Researchers use magnetic propulsion to raise a sedan 35mm above a track.


Chocks away for road test of China’s first maglev car

Researchers use magnetic propulsion to raise a sedan 35mm above a track The country is a leader in the use of maglev technology, particularly in trains

Researchers use magnetic propulsion to raise a sedan 35mm above a track

The country is a leader in the use of maglev technology, particularly in trains