They were invented decades ago.

They have fewer moving parts than wheelbois.

They require less maintenance.

There’s obviously some bottleneck in expanding maglev technology, but what is it?

  • markr [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I rode the maglev to the shanghai airport, it was awesome. The newer version in Beijing is significantly faster. But yeah super expensive to build.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      How was the ride? Smooth/bumpy/not feel much movement?

      My experience on a much slower HSR is being thrown around in the seat at certain times, wouldn’t want to be carrying an open drink of any kind tbh lol

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        The maglev is Shanghai is super smooth.

        TGV in France is super smooth. Maybe not quite as smooth but still smooth enough that you can have a tall bottle or glass on a table without fear it’ll fall over.

        Then you’ve got a couple of places in Europe that hits 300 km/h, or near enough: Köln-Frankfurt and parts of the München-Berlin in Germany, Barcelona-Madrid and the Eurostar. All of these are super smooth.

        The rest is just “high speed” marketing, sometimes done on tilting trains that’ll hit 250 km/h. The ones I’ve tried are not super smooth. Parts of the “higher speed” tilting trains in the U.K. are downright uncomfortable and can leave you travel sick at times.