China’s locomotive jewel is the Maglev in Shanghai. A that floats on magnets and can reach a cruising speed of around 500Km/h pretty darn in our standards, but obviously not enough. current have a Maglev that can hit 600 Km/h and are planning a smaller ‘Express’ version which will hit the dizzying speed of 1000 Km/h!! Twice that of current Maglevs in or Japan! The people behind these super decided the only way to make them go any faster was to reduce friction, but as they already float on magnets there was little they could do to drop it further unless of course they put the whole and its rails in a tube and created a vacuum....... So that’s what they’ve done! The for the tube is said to be around 10-20 million per kilometer!! And is penned in for testing within the next 2-3 years!
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