Baltimore, Miles, MPH and Standards

10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

While maglev trains are in use throughout the world, those systems are primarily high-speed test environment systems where speeds reach in excess of 250 miles per hour. Urban maglev should require a maximum speed of about 100 mph. US safety standards are in many instances much more demanding than standards in other countries.

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GM will focus its electrification strategy on light electrification, extended range, and battery-electric vehicle technologies; major focus on the plug; preview of the Spark EV

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A 120V charge cord set is standard. What we have done, based on those 300 million miles of field experience, is taken a chemistry that is well-vetted in the field and adapted and tailored it in terms of the cell design to the particular application in the Spark. near Baltimore. The Spark EV battery pack. Click to enlarge.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

GM will focus its electrification strategy on light electrification, extended range, and battery-electric vehicle technologies; major focus on the plug; preview of the Spark EV

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