The elevators will be installed in the 632-meter (2,073-foot) Shanghai Tower, which is being erected in Shanghai's Pudong area.

The elevator has the capacity to zoom from the bottom floor to the 95th floor in an unbelievable 45 seconds. The elevator in the Shanghai Tower can lift passengers at a speed of nearly 46 miles ...

Shanghai Tower’s elevators were designed by Mitsubishi Electric and just barely outpaced elevators designed by Hitachi in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, which can reach speeds of 20 meters per ...

The tower, which will be the world's tallest after the Burj Khalifa, when completed, will be outfitted with a state-of-the-art bullet elevator developed by Mitsubishi Electric, which will be ...

Three sets of elevators will travel directly between the second basement level and the observation deck on the 119th floor. Including these three units, Mitsubishi Electric Group will supply all 106 ...

The Shanghai Tower is still the world’s second-tallest building, just a few hundred feet shorter than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. It already has the tallest observation tower—not that that’s ...

Elevators in both the Shanghai Tower and the CTF Finance Tower go down at 22.3 mph, close to the limit. Most importantly, even the most advanced elevator still needs a big building to go in.

INAZAWA, Japan -- Three ultrahigh-speed elevators are ready for liftoff in the Shanghai Tower, China's tallest building. The state-of-the-art elevators, which travel at 1,080 meters per minute ...

The super-tall Shanghai Tower will be outfitted with the world's fastest elevators, which will move at 18 meters per second, Eastday.com reported on Friday.

Mitsubishi Electric also will install a group of four double-deck elevators that will travel at a world-record 10 meters (or 33 feet) per second between the ground floor and hotel lobby on the ...