Aluminum: indispensable materials of high-speed rail vehicles and magnetic levitation vehicles
2015-02-27
Nowadays, almost all of the high speed (more than 200km/h) vehicle, Maglev vehicle's body is made of aluminum, without aluminum they can not run so fast, it won't be so friendly to the environment, energy consumption would not be so low, riding comfort is will be less. Other rail vehicles such as subway, elevated, medium and low speed Maglev vehicles, also some 30% are aluminum, aluminized rate of 100%, no aluminum, no so easy, comfortable, environmentally-friendly rail vehicle systems. There are about 65,000 vehicles aluminum rail vehicles up to 2014 in the world, consuming a variety of aluminum about 700kt. (Henan Mintai Aluminum)