What kind of "ghost" is BYD Cloud Track?

On 20161kloc-0/3, BYD's straddle-type monorail "Cloud Track" held its world premiere ceremony in Shenzhen. This unknown "ghost" cloud track was dubbed "blocking artifact" by the outside world on the day of its release.

Cloud track is also a product developed by BYD for 5 years and 3 billion yuan. Compared with the subway, a popular means of transportation in major cities, the overall production cost is lower and the speed is faster. Most importantly, cloud track is also a product with independent intellectual property rights in China!

In fact, cloud orbit is not a magical high technology. The prototype was invented as early as 1820. 1824, the world's first freight monorail was put into operation in London. 1888, the world's first straddle monorail appeared in Ireland. 1958, the Germans summarized the monorail technology into three main points: straddle type, concrete track and rubber wheel, which is the so-called "Alvager monorail".

Since then, the United States, Japan, Italy, Singapore and many other countries have built this form of rail transit facilities, especially Japan. 20 12, "Ertang-Yudong Section of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 3 Phase III Project" was put into trial operation. This section 16.5km long is the longest monorail in the world (note: Chongqing Line 3 is 55.5km long). By the end of 20 15, 26 cities in China had opened rail transit, and only "Mountain City Chongqing" chose monorail. Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hong Kong rank in the top five, with mileage of 548 km, 527 km, 260 km, 225 km, 265,438+05km respectively, without monorail.

Hard injury of cloud track

In some parameters of cloud orbit, its carrying capacity is 0.8-40 thousand person/hour in one direction. This carrying capacity may not be known to everyone, but since it is advertised as an artifact to control traffic jams, it can definitely significantly alleviate the urban traffic pressure. Let me give you an example. Take Beijing as an example. Beijing rail transit line 16 (subway 15, airport line 1). The daily traffic volume exceeds 100000, and the holiday peak even reaches130000 person-times, in which the daily average of10 line exceeds 100.

In addition, the cloud track also occupies a small area; Low noise and comfortable ride; Good landscape and other characteristics. Of course, this train also has a very strong "BYD characteristics". The car is equipped with a battery system produced by BYD, which can continue to supply power after the external power supply system stops until the train reaches the next station.

In this era of over-publicity, more and more news always becomes familiar and exaggerated in order to attract attention, which makes people easy to be labeled. Of course, the cloud track project is different from the previous Pakistani railway project. Cloud orbit has a way out. I hope BYD will straighten its position and improve the cloud track system in a down-to-earth manner. While throwing cold water on it, the author also expects BYD to really solve the problem.