crunchgear.com - 9/17/2008
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to develop Japan’s fastest train [JP], which is expected to achieve a speed of 350km per hour. The current record for the Shinkansen , this country’s bullet train, stands at about 300kph.
Kawasaki says their so-called efSET (environmentally ...
dvice.com - 9/18/2008
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Japan, a country at the forefront of train
technology, crisscrossed with a crazy number of rail lines...
and bullet trains, has done it again. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is developing the country's fastest train. How fast is that? A speedy 217mph, a ...
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Japan to introduce yet another blisteringly fast train
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... that? A speedy 217mph, a nice increase over the previous fastest, which moved at 186mph.
As a bonus, the new trains are more energy efficient and less noisy than older trains, making them better on almost all fronts. It's going to take another year and a half for the design to be finalized, after which they'll start production and sales. Man, do I wish they would bring some of these over to the states. San Fran to LA in two and a half hours, anyone?
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