Watch: China Tests “Flying” Cars That Can Reach 230 Km Per Hour

Over the years, flying cars only exist in scientific fiction. Some efforts have been made to overcome this mechanical impossibility and build it in reality. This dream may be a little closer to produce results, and this can shape the way we travel, work, and live in the coming decades.
According to the Chinese State news agency Xinhua, Chinese researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, conducted a road test last week for modified passenger cars using magnets to float 35 millimeters on the conductor train.

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

— QinduoXu (@QinduoXu) September 12, 2022

In other words, experimental vehicles use Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) technology.

The researchers placed eight sedans with a strong magnet at the bottom of the vehicle and tested it along the railroad 8 km.

Strangely, one of eight cars reached a speed of 230 km per hour.

The cars are sometimes seen floating when they move on the track in a video posted by a Chinese journalist.

According to Xinhua, government transportation authorities conducted experiments to examine the safety steps of high-speed driving. However, according to Deng Zigang, a university professor who works on vehicle development, adopting magnetic levitation for passenger cars can produce lower energy consumption and greater reach.

It might help with “range anxiety,” problems faced by the electric vehicle industry when customers are worried that they will not be able to finish the trip with an electric car without running out of power.

Since the 1980s, some commercial trains have used magnetic levitation, or “Maglev,” which uses an electrical magnetic field to push or attract objects at high speed. At present, the Maglev train is used in South Korea, China and Japan.

In Qingdao, Shandong Province, last year, China launched a Maglev bullet train with the highest speed of 600 kilometers per hour.