Category: transport
Low Cost Maglev Coming to China
Tweet Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive, China’s second largest train builder, has unveiled it’s new low cost Maglev which it hopes to be put in to service in booming Chinese cities. Tweet
Can’t Find a Taxi? YongChe is the app for that!
Tweet If you have ever been to one of the major, and massively busy, cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, you will no doubt understand how difficult it can be to find a taxi. Thankfully Zhou Hang, CEO of Yongche, has an app for that! Tweet
Beijing Rolls Out Phone Swipe Payment For Public Transport
Tweet Beijing Municipal Government Yikatong Ltd are the company responsible for those blue plastic cards Beijinger use to pay for buses, subways and some other forms of public transport. But as technologies and trends change, so too has the Yikatong card. Tweet
BYD E6 Electric Sedan On Sale
Tweet Electric cars are one of the soon to be booming market in China, and BYD are one of the first of the larger Chinese car manufacturers to offer an electric car to the Chinese car buying public. The all electric BYD E6 has been available to buy for taxi companies and can be seen [...]
BYD electric buses heading for LAX
Tweet BYD (Build Your Dreams, the Chinese car company behind such cars as the BYD F0 (Toyota Aigo clone) have announced that they will be setting up shop in North America. BYD are going to open a new headquarters in Los Angeles, which marks the Chinese automotive companies first physical presences in the U.S. The [...]
Shanghai Subway in trouble again! Video
Tweet Shanghai’s subway service is a necessary evil in the modern sprawling city. The subway does give commuters a fast, cheap and convenient way to move about the city, but when things go wrong they can be and have been life or death! Tweet
China’s National ‘No Car Day’ Has No Takers
Tweet I didn’t know this when I jumped in to my Chinese made jalopy to head to the office in downtown Qingdao, but today is China’s official National ‘Car Free Day’. It looks like no one else new, or didn’t care either! Tweet
Return of the ‘Strida’ eBike
Tweet Last year we spotted a bright orange electric Strida bike on sale in China. This year it’s back with a new top speed! Tweet
Chinese Military Drone Crash in Huining
Tweet China’s experimental military drones are not something you would come across everyday, well unless you happened to be in the woods of Huining, Hebei where one crashed yesterday! Tweet
Homemade Chinese Submarine Can Stay Underwater for 10 Hours
Tweet China is no stranger to innovative homemade vehicles such as helicopters, planes or submarines, but when someone manages to make one of these homemade marvels we can’t help but be amazed! Tweet
This Chinese Crane is Capable of Lifting 98 Statue of Libertys!!
Tweet Yantai Raffles shipyard in Yantai, Shandong, have just unveiled there latest beast! A 30-story Taisun crane designed to lift 20,000 metric ton oil rig platforms! Tweet
China’s Homegrown GPS Will Generate 400 Billion By 2020
Tweet GPS is big business all over the globe, and here in China, home to the worlds fastest automobile market navigation is even a bigger business than in most economies. Currently 95% of all navigation in China is handled U.S GPS satellites, but this is American dominance of global positioning and guidance sound like it [...]
Beijing to Shanghai High Speed Railway
Tweet A new high speed railway service is getting ready for action linking Beijing to Shanghai. the new root is currently being tested and is planned to be fully operational by late 2011. Once up and running the new Beijing to Shanghai root should be able to get commuters from one of the cosmopolitan cities [...]
Jet Powered Fire Truck
Tweet This is China’s latest tool in the fight against skyscraper blazes a turbo-jet water gun made from a jet fighter engine! The fire truck here was pictured in Luoyang, Henan Province and cost an estimated 3 million yuan ($455,539). The turbo-jet gun can rotate almost 360 degrees, and shoot out 3 tons of water [...]
Retired Nanjing Worker Builds His Own Plane From 125cc Motorbike
Tweet What happens when you combine 106 spare days, a 125cc motorcycle and a retired working from Nanjing? A homemade plane of course! Tweet
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