Look ma, no hands- The Nikola Motors hydrogen truck saga

[GregLocock]

Here's the short report/hit piece. A great read.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/

OK it isn't an engineering disaster.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[waross]

Fair enough John.
The Japanese demonstrated an HSST train at Expo 86 in Vancouver.
My supervisor managed to get me assigned to the construction crew for a week and I was able to spend time with the Japanese engineers.
As I remember both three phase AC and DC were supplied by track side bus bars.
The magnets were under the support track and lifted by attraction rather than using a repulsion scheme.
Sensors and high speed switching were used to maintain the spacing.
In the bay under the cars were a large number of 12 Volt automotive batteries to keep the cars levitated until they could be stopped in the event that contact with the bus bars was lost while at speed.
This was a short, demonstration line, and some other system may have been used on later versions.
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Bill
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[davidbeach]

That’s maglev, a bit different. Rode my first (so far only) maglev 41+ years ago. German though, so if the Japanese was attraction the German war repulsion. TransRapid3 in Hamburg in May of 1979.