The Central Japan Railway Company’smaglev hummer train hit366 miles per hour yesterday in a mental testing , a record - set clip that breaks the the 12 - class - old landspeed record of 361 mph , the Wall Street Journalreports .
That ’s crazy fast , and much faster than the train will go when it starts transmit passengers in 2027 . ( The picture above demo the train being test last year . ) Meanwhile , North America ’s Amtrak tops out at 150 miles per hour . )
Though it seems like wheeled and maglev trains are n’t that far apart right now in the record rule book , remember that maglev is still relatively new tech , whereas the wheeled train ’s maxing out on its potential drop .
Magnetic levitation trans break away — or hover , really — on magnetic track that reduce detrition and allow the trains to travel at theoretical hurrying much high than what you may get with rail . For comparing , the world ’s fastest schematic wheeled train was make by a TGV train on the LGV Est line of France ’s gamy - speed electronic internet . It went 357 miles per hour .
In the United States , the big advancements in train engineering are n’t magnetic at all . GE justcompeted testson its new high - speed locamotive , which cut particulate subject emission by 70 percentage and N oxide ( Night ) emissions by 76 pct .
An approvedplanto introduce a maglev gear demarcation connecting Florida ’s major metropolis was kill in 2011 when Governor Rick Scott refused federal funding for the project , a matter that was ultimately settled by the US Supreme Court . The voter approved high - speed line in California would run on wheels and hit a top speed of a meagre 220 miles per hour . Ugh America . Lame !
[ WSJ ]
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