According to the source, the length of the track was about 1.25 miles (just over two kilometers). At the same time, the train accelerated to 80 miles per hour (128 kilometers per hour).

What is known about the test

• China claims to be the first country in the world to successfully demonstrate such a magnetic levitation train moving in a low-vacuum tube.
• The team is just getting started. The goal is finally Build a full-scale 37-mile test track and let trains reach speeds of 621 miles per hour.
• The test could lay the foundation for a new type of high-speed train system that will connect the disparate ends of the vast country and transport passengers at high speeds from one end to the other.

Although magnetic trains are not a new technology for humanity, they have not yet been widely used. Japan recently broke its own speed record by traveling its magnetic pad train at 374 miles per hour. But Japanese wagons do not move in a vacuum.

The most famous vacuum tube train concept is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, which he first proposed in 2012. Despite much optimism and early testing, we have yet to see a full-scale Hyperloop system installed, let alone put into operation. After the previous developer left the project, Musk said he would take over later. The Boring Company will finally attempt to build an underground Hyperloop “in the coming years”.