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Hyperloop analogue tested in China

20.01.2023

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has conducted the first successful launches of a transportation system similar to Elon Musk's Hyperloop. The test was carried out using a full-sized passenger capsule.

CASIC engineers conducted a series of three trial runs of a maglev capsule (superconducting magnets or electrodynamic suspension, EDS) in Datong, Shanxi province. The speed of the capsule reached 50 km/h. Next-generation capsules are planned to carry passengers and cargo at 1000 kilometers per hour or even faster in an "almost" vacuum tube. If all goes according to plan, this type of transport network will become the fastest land transport system in the world.

Fast high-speed trains can run at speeds up to 350 km/h. They could move even faster, but then the drift of the rails and energy consumption will increase significantly. And the technology of magnetic levitation, on which the Hyperloop is based, also eliminates friction that wears out the rails, and the vacuum tube reduces air resistance.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk first introduced the idea of Hyperloop (a system of vacuum tunnels in which high-speed trains move) back in 2012 and created Boring to bring this idea to life, but the project has not yet been implemented, as the company has encountered a number of technical problems. and financial. problems. Does this mean that China can become a leader in the field of "vacuum" transportation, the first in the world to achieve a historic goal? Time will show.

China now has the world's largest high-speed rail network, with a total length of over 42 km. Also, the government of the country has ambitious plans to increase the maximum speed of its trains to 400 km per hour in the next two years.

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