China this month launched its Red Rail, which is the world's first suspended maglev line, according to a South China Morning Post article. The maglev "sky train" can stay afloat using permanent ...

China's new 'sky train' LEVITATES on a magnetic track 33 feet in the air and can glide along silently at speeds of up to 50mph without electricity ...

A new Sky Train test track in Southern China has debuted the world's first maglev transit system built using permanent magnets instead of electromagnets. It's capable of keeping its underslung ...

China’s ambitions don’t stop there. The second phase of testing aims to achieve the train’s full potential speed of 621 mph (1,000 km/h) on a 37-mile (60 km) track.

The EU’s inquiry over subsidies issued to a Chinese company in the procurement of a train order, announced shortly after a similar probe over electric vehicles, indicates China-EU relations are ...

By using magnets to float above the track, trains can go faster because there is no friction, and it is also a smoother ride. Elon Musk's The Boring Company once had plans for a similar kind of ...

A FLOATING train that is faster than a plane has begun construction, marking a huge step forward for the 621mph lighting locomotive. China Railway will use magnetic levitation (maglev) technology t… ...

So far, the CASIC China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation has built a 1.24-mile test line in Datong, Shanxi province, where the train hit a record speed of 387 mph. CASIC is happy with ...

China's latest mode of public transportation is a bus, tram and train rolled into one. Its maker, Chinese rail transit firm CRRC, is calling it a "smart bus," but it's a lot more than that.Like a ...

A train runs through snow-clad Baoji, Shaanxi province. [Photo by Yang Yongqian/For China Daily] XI'AN — During the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, tourists from across the country ...

To test the new train, CASIC built a track roughly 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) long in a low-pressure vacuum tube. To reach such high speeds, the trains must encounter almost no friction.