Flying cars: Chinese scientists make a vehicle float 35 mm above the ground

China is one of the countries that experiments the most with technology. On this occasion, a group of researchers from Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu began road tests of a car that floats 35 millimeters from its guide rail.

The car is powered by powerful magnets at the bottom, allowing it to levitate on an 8-kilometre-long rail. But it wasn’t just a car. There were eight vehicles used in the tests that reached 230 km/h.

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A video on Twitter shows how the magnet acts to float the vehicle, which is an ordinary car, with wheels and a body, but adapted.

A #maglev vehicle technology test saw a 2.8-tonne car float 35 millimeters above the road and run on a highway in #Jiangsu, EastChina. A permanent magnet array was installed for levitation. pic.twitter.com/7vWc8TvJpn

— QinduoXu (@QinduoXu) September 12, 2022

Deng Zigang is one of the university professors who developed the vehicles, reported the specialized page TopGear, and explained that magnetic levitation is a possibility to reduce the use of energy and increase the range of the vehicles.

But it is not the first time that this type of levitation has been used. Since the 1980s, China, Japan, and South Korea have been using maglev trains. Even last year China inaugurated the magnetic levitation bullet train in Qingdao, which reaches 600km/h.

Source: Elcomercio

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