Hey, in 5 years japan is getting those

@@no_name4796 yes and even more faster.....near to 600km/hr

it's way, way faster than airplane on runway

@@MichalKajrunajtys that's 140mph, the new Japanese one is 300mph

Why don´t we build a few in Europe in steed. Its not like we don´t need more track infrastruture

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The insane thing is that planes takeoff at ~250 kmph, and this maglev is running at almost double speed of it

Yeah. It really feels like the train is gonna go up in the air any second as I watch this video.

jesus never using maglev train

It’s going 430 k/h, but yeah, still very fast.

Thank you for the comment! I try!!

Thank you!

Thank you! I didn't have a car or bike. I took the subway 1/2 way and then a motorcycle taxi to the track. From there I walked A LOT! At the end of the day, I find a taxi to take me back to the subway. I've done this a few times on a few different trips to Shanghai. I wish I had a better shot of the meet, from some elevated bridge or hill, but it was really hemmed in there.

Jame M now that the metro trains go to the airport, everyone takes this instead because it’s much cheaper. The maglev is not very expensive for tourists who want a fun train ride, but for locals, it’s too expensive.

It's too expensive for a daily ride when metro get to the same place at fraction of the cost only a little bit later.

The SMT line was suppose to be extended with 4 more stations. SMT was built and is owned by Shanghai municipality government, not by the Chinese government. When they was about to extend it the Chinese government blocked it for then unknown reasons. But after the corruption court case, its pretty clear what happened

Man that thing flew by at nearly 600 km/s if we take the speed of the outgoing and coming maglevs into account, Jesus

I'm late to the video. But same!

lmao I wanted to say the same thing! It was insane! So cool! That train is probably 150 meters long and it flew by in a milisecond😮💀

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I really doubt UK would even consider a maglev for HS2. Although the fastest train, it's also the most expensive to construct and run. The conventional HSR planned as it is, is already controversial.

@@hurbrowns5397 Hs2 currently of high overpriced than maglev now by 2 billion original they say it would cost 3 .5 billion to build it but the maglev say vitcwas 4.2 billion. Now currently bits cost double what they said and it's still a billion to spend minimum .

@@ram64man Yeah but Maglev line would have cost overrun too.. I would love a maglev but let's be realistic. It would never be considered despite higher speed than conventional high speed rail. The cost to run a full lenght cities to cities at 500-550km/h operational speed is too high.

@@ram64man there would be no point building a train that can go at 250mph in UK, the distance between cities is not large enough to justify it. Even the planned HS2 speed of around 205-225 is frankly ridiculous given it's only going to cut travel times by a relatively insignificant amount. Makes a lot more sense for a larger country like France or Spain

@@philipeafroboy1 The point of HS2 is not to reduce journey times (though that is an added benefit) but rather to free up the current railways running at max capacity

Thank you! I was wondering who would win the race!! Haha!

In Shanghai, there is a no-fly zone near the airport. Of course, it is already far away from the airport's no-fly zone near the Longyang Road terminal, so you can fly. There is a question, will the magnetic field of the maglev train affect the drone? If it will, the maglev train will definitely win the race :)

@@WuWa.Shanghai The computers overcome the magnétic interference. I have a laptop with Windows 10 and it's a 2016 model and it doesn't have interference when a metal piece magnetizes with the unión of the keyboard. Drons doesn't have the advance to fight againist magnétic interference, notebooks have it.

BRO THE MAGLEV IS FADTER THAN A F1 CAR DO YOU EXPECT A DRONE TRAVEL FASTER THAN A MAGLEV!?

No drone can fly that speed. It would be out of sight within seconds.

You're welcome! Thanks for watching, again I think!

@@Luke_Starkenburg I don't think I've seen this one, shared to two of our maglev oriented facebook groups, thanks.

@@malcolmwatt3308 awesome! Thanks!

The japanese are building a new line that will go even faster and will open in 2027. You just have to be a bit patient.

I think that it is not..

I meant - too bad it's the only one by Transrapid

@@skyliner3396 hopefully no delay, they have been at it for the last 20plus years

I agree. I'd love to take one of these from London to Edinburgh or perhaps all the way to the south of Spain!? Rather than fly perhaps. Better for the environment as the electricity could be fed from 100% renewables. Though maybe hyperloop would be better for such long journeys!?

I agree. This line should be extended to downtown Shanghai and future lines should be built in China. They are developing a new maglev which looks identical to this, but the new maglev can go 600km/h.

Thanks!

If so, post Putin 🤣

The maglev train will have a certain impact on the environment. Shanghai once had to build another maglev line, but it was opposed by the citizens and the construction plan was cancelled.

WUWA VISION yes but the conclusion after investigation found the citizens complaints about the original were unfounded and the em radiation from the magnetics from the track was not related in any way to the 14 cases of cancer in one area, as the maintenance track in question was unpowered when not in use. The lead poisoning and cancer was later found to be contaminated in the drinking water from an unfiltered local spring. The shockwave and Noise levels were also found to be significantly lower than the local low speed rail, but by then the policy had change to the high speed rail line and a lawsuit by transrapid found China using its intellectual property rights stopped the mk7 design completely since then no more work has happened on high speed maglev for over 10 years instead the s1 metro line and experimental mono rail was developed in China as a cheaper alternative since Germany has shut down transrapid project in favour of further cheaper conventional rail ice de designs, I fear that this may be the only working transrapid link in the world unless another country helps co fund and deploy , and there seems to be a definitive sit and wait for the results of the Japanese system to start service before spending the 60 billon track and cart costs

You mean Germany sell it to UK? Germany made the transrapid but for some reason they don’t use it in their own country.

@@hamanakohamaneko7028 transrapid no longer exist in nothing but name and patterns, they lack the ability to produce any trains at transrapid hq as it was dismantled and turned into housing

@@ram64man Well at least they were able to export this marvel of engineering to China.

Thank you very much!

They announced that they will extend it, but as with many announcements, years go by without any updates.

Thank you!

lohphat it’s a good question and way above my knowledge. I know that the slow/medium speed urban maglevs I’ve ridden and watched, their is an electrical hum when the maglev is accelerating and decelerating, but very quiet when traveling at a constant speed. The Linimo Maglev in Japan was absolutely quiet when swooshing past you at 100km/h when I was very close to the track.

It's basically like a linear motor so probably that's why

A G yes, it has similar sounds as the Vancouver Skytrain which uses linear motor (for 2 lines).

@@Luke_Starkenburg I love the old school Skytrain up there! It sounds like electrical gear shifting. xD

The noise is caused by the same thing that causes noise in regular electric trains. That is, it comes from the huge cooling fans and air compressors that are part of the heavy-duty air cooling system that all electric trains need to have to not overheat their working components.

That plane really does look like its just hanging in the air! I'm sometimes amazed at watching huge planes take off, like the B747 or A380. They look like they are moving so slow when they take off. Looks physically impossible.

I guess because the camera was moving at such a high speed the opposite way it made it look stationary

Look at the air quality itself, chokefest

Or monorail 😉

@@tanf2254 eh?

@@tanf2254 ?

It's a good thing you were wearing that helmet!

It’s not as smooth as traditional high speed rail, which surprised me greatly when I first rode it. I heard that the test track/train in Germany was much smoother.

A maglev has a streamlined fuselage so it's designed

@@Luke_Starkenburg I only know the test track in Germany from back, when I was a child, but that one was more smooth than flying. The rough ride of Shanghai is surprising indeed. Is it built this sloppy?

​@@Luke_Starkenburgthe german track had (has, it still exists) two dufferrent kinds of tracks, a concrete one and a metal one. one was more bumpy than the other.

@@SimonBauer7 interesting. I didn’t know this.

No, this was a few years ago.

Plus they restricted maglevs in 2020

It's horrendously expensive and Transrapid went bust. Further, much like the TGV HS2 can interface with the existing rail network.

@@Ravenslofty No it isn't, no they didn't and yes, that is one of its strengths.

@@Ravenslofty The Transrapid did not go bust because of the Transrapid but because of the Deutsche Bahn.

​@@bobbwc7011*because of germany and stupid polititians in general.

There is no backwards. It’s exactly the same moving in earth direction. It’s amazing!

I know, I really wish I had that.

Bruh The simulation's broken.

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Even when it's slowing down near the end, the cars still look like they are not moving!

Good question!

The control principles are conceptually similar to an AC traction motor. The track is one very long stator.

It would be quite perfect for this application, especially since the Transrapid is good when it comes to topography. It can climb gradients of around 10 %, so Vancouver has no mountains to hide behind. Plus the tracks are really low maintenance once they are done properly and all you need is power. So maybe start slow with Quebec-City - Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto... maybe take a short jump to Detroit - Chicago - Minneapolis - and then run for it! Winnipeg - Calgary - Vancouver? One needs to dream...

Good idea but unfortunately would never be possible in the near future considering the astronomical costs that it would take to power the electromagnetic rails, let alone construct the tracks at all. The track shown on the video cost itself cost 1.2 billion dollars alone and is only 30 kilometers of track and costs a fortune to even run on a daily basis

In Canada enough good the diesel train !

The stator length is 34 cm so moving at 1/3m/s (about 1km/h, 1.2 to be exact) would give a sound similar to 60rpm. So the freqvency at 430km/h should be equivalent to 21 500 changes per minute. Of cause, if you compare it to a 4 stroke motorcycle engine, it would be twice that.

This is the cost of the entire project building the maglev, not the process of building the track. China maybe bought the entire project for 38B.

I don't need to imagine it.

by 2100 it will be the norm. sadly humans love to drag their feet in their evolution and would rather go to war instead of evolving the human race.

Apparently, neither Germany, nor even the massive budget of China, saw this as an economically practical system, so this line was the only one that got built

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That’s awesome!

Bcoz it's cheaper than bus

The guideway is much slimmer than conventional high speed rail. It would be interesting to see a large bridge structure for a transrapid style maglev!

When will it ever open!?!?!

@@Luke_Starkenburg i should be asking u about that

GradientGamer I have no information.

@@Luke_Starkenburg me either and i expected that