China’s latest maglev experiment is not just a laboratory stunt, it is a blunt demonstration of how far the country is willing to push transport technology while the United States and Europe argue ...

Floating trains have glided closer to Europe after a pioneering trial of magnetic levitation — aka maglev. Italian firm IronLev, which developed the tech, claims to have completed the first-ever ...

On a short stretch of track in northern China, a heavy block of engineering briefly moved with the urgency of a launched projectile. In a test that prioritised hardware limits over passenger comfort, ...

Researchers at China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have accelerated a one-ton vehicle from a dead stop to 435 mph (700 km/h) in under two seconds – then back to zero mph on about ...

China has set a world record in maglev technology, testing and successfully accelerating a tonne-class vehicle to a speed of 700 km/h (435mph) in only two seconds' time. The maglev train was tested on ...

China has just completed the road test for their first-ever maglev vehicle, as reported by South China Morning Post. The vehicle was developed by researchers from Southwest Jiaotong University in ...

China has started the construction of a test line in China’s Shanxi Province to handle maglev trains operating at speeds of up to 1,000km/h. To mark the official launch of the maglev test line, a ...

The prototype of the 600-kilometer-per-hour maglev train developed and manufactured by China’s CRRC Sifang completed trial run on the maglev test line of Shanghai Tongji University. Since the project ...

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TOKYO, Japan, May 30, 2011 (ENS) – The Japanese government has signaled Central Japan Railway “to proceed with construction” of its magnetically levitated train line between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.

Maglev trains have long been touted as the new dawn for train technology. Despite keen and eager interest in the mid-20th century, development has been slow, and only limited commercial operations ...