China ’s answer to the Hyperloop , an ultra - high - stop number maglev gear , has lately let on its own focal ratio record by achieving speed over 623 kilometers ( 387 miles ) per hour at a full - scale test track .
The labor is being run by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation ( CASIC ) , a state - possess aerospace fellowship that make everything from rockets and missiles to satellite and spacecraft .
In 2023 , the train reached a book - breaking speed of 623 kilometers ( 387 miles ) per hr in a test run under non - vacuum atmospheric condition . As reported by theSouth China Morning Post , CASIC claim that raw trial have go by the previous track record . The exact speed is reportedly stay classified for now .
What ’s more , the test was perform in a low - vacuum tubing , test the maglev engineering science works as intended . The advanced train system smashed the speed record at a full - weighing machine 2 - kilometer ( 1.2 - air mile ) test line in the urban center of Datong in Shanxi province , northerly China .
The vehicle relies on maglev applied science , which uses magnetism to propel the geartrain onward , as well as levitate it above the tracks thereby slim down friction . To further boost its speed , the train travel through a specially designed low - vacuum metro that reduces air electrical resistance .
The applied science is advance at a mindblowing speed . In October 2022 , CASICboasted a train test runthat reached focal ratio of 130 kilometer ( 81 miles ) per hr . The latest attempt is well over four times that speed .
More could still be yet to arrive too . CASIC haspreviously expressed interestin shuttle caravan at a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers ( 620 miles ) per hour and they ’re look to make technologies that could go as tight as 4,000 kilometers ( 2,485 miles ) per hour .
Before the CASIC ’s record , thefastest hyperloop speedwas 463 km ( 288 miles ) per hour , attain by a squad of locomotive engineer at the Technical University of Munich in July 2019 .
As of 2018 , there were onlysix maglev train systemsin operation across the world : three inChina , two in South Korea , and one in Japan . All of these trains travel in the open air , as opposed to ones that use low - insistency tunnels known as hyperloops .
While maglev trains can go at imposingly fast speeds , they areextremely expensive . They also use Brobdingnagian amounts of muscularity and require their own consecrated infrastructure that ’s tricky to desegregate into survive transportation system .
Meanwhile , outside of China , Hyperloop One , the company behind a futuristic transportation organisation once shoot a line by Elon Musk , shut downlate last yr .
The dream of hyperloop engineering science is clearly not dead yet , though . There hasbeen talkof a commercial hyperloop system in Italy , plug in Venice - Mestre and Padua in less than 15 hour . Bear in mind , however , that the train journey time between Mestre and Padova presently take around 14 minute .
