An elevator which works at 60kmph

We all have seen elevators in our daily life at residential blocks, commercial complexes, malls, theaters and almost everywhere around us. But have you ever seen an elevator traveling at a speed of car running on expressway.

Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp announced the installation of the world’s fastest passenger elevator just exactly where it is needed – in Taipei 101. Soaring 508 meters, Taipei 101 is now the world's tallest building, having supplanted the 452-metre Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new building, largely devoted to offices, is called Taipei 101 because it has 101 above-ground floors, as well as five underground floors.

  

Being the tallest building in the world, it needed the fastest elevator which can takes passengers to the top most floor in reasonable time. Toshiba came out with the fastest elevator which runs at a top speed of 1,010 meters per minute when ascending and 600 meters per minute on the way down, which works out to 60.6 kilometers per hour.

Ascending with this high speed, the Elevator can go from the 5th floor to the 89th floor in 39 seconds. To avail such high speed, Toshiba has introduced a few new technologies with the elevator. Most important of these reasons is the world's first pressure control system, which adjusts the atmospheric pressure inside a car by using suction and discharge blowers, preventing those riding inside the car experiencing ‘ear popping’.