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Taking the train through China is about to get a lot more interesting—and about 100 mph faster. Late last week in Shandong province, state-owned rail company China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation ...

Last year, China’s state-owned railway company (CRRC) unveiled a new high-speed maglev train concept with a touted top speed of 373 miles per hour. One year on, the project appears to be chugging ...

Researchers at China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have accelerated a one-ton vehicle from a dead stop ...

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Maglev trains are very real and very practical, but maglev cars? Well, let’s just say they aren’t exactly in their golden age. That hasn’t stopped researchers at China’s Southwest Jiaotong University ...

Researchers from the Southwest Jiaotong University in China have developed cars that use magnetic levitation technology to float above a track. The eight vehicles were recently tested in Jiangsu along ...

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 ...

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