--- title: Don’t pretend you aren’t interested in the world’s largest passenger elevator - The Hustle description: We’ve newly discovered an elevator in India that can transport up to 235 people at once. Think you’ve got it in you to NOT learn more about it? … that’s what we thought. Settle in, friend, you’re gonna be here for another 250 words. Let’s talk specs The ~277.5-square-foot elevator was unveiled last year at the Jio World Centre in image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1502228928-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2011202023elevator.webp --- # Don’t pretend you aren’t interested in the world’s largest passenger elevator ![Ben Berkley](https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/assets/hubspot.com/web-team/WBZ/HubSpot%20Media/Blog%202021/Images/Nav/Optimized/TheHustle_Icon_Dark.svg) [Ben Berkley](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/ben-berkley) Published: April 13, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 We’ve newly discovered an elevator in India that can transport *up to 235 people at once*. Think you’ve got it in you to NOT learn more about it? ![elevator button](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1502228928-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2011202023elevator.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1502228928-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2011202023elevator.webp) … that’s what we thought. Settle in, friend, you’re gonna be here for another 250 words. #### **Let’s talk specs** The ~277.5-square-foot elevator was unveiled last year at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai by Finnish vertical transport juggernaut Kone Corporation. The largest passenger elevator in the world, India’s honkin’ new [lift](https://www.kone.com/en/news-and-insights/stories/check-out-the-worlds-largest-passenger-elevator.aspx) weighs 16 tons, is supported by 18 pulleys and nine ropes, and moves between five floors at a speed of 1.3 feet/second. - You could lay an adolescent giraffe down on its side and it would fit inside — we haven’t tried, but wish we could. And we should mention it once more: *The elevator can carry 235 people in one g*o. Wanna see this baby in action via overdramatic promo video? [Of course you do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-JRqo3oJM). #### **Where does Kone test its elevator tech?** Glad you asked — this side quest similarly blew our minds. Kone is among the “Big Five” in the global elevator business alongside Thyssenkrupp, Otis, Schindler, and Mitsubishi. But [per](https://elevatorworld.com/blog/high-rise-innovation-deep-underground/) *Elevator World*, Kone is in a league of their own when it comes to their testing facility, which hosts the world’s deepest elevator shaft (~1,150 feet under Tytyri, Finland). Yes, *under*. Because Kone HQ is in a skyscraper-free country where no building exceeds 432 feet, it had to go the other direction — conducting research underground in a limestone mine. Its extensive acceleration, speed, braking, and deceleration testing includes a ~650-foot free-fall test. That’s 5x the drop in Disney World’s Tower of Terror. **BTW: **The world’s largest freight elevator, located in China, is its own [rabbit hole](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a23018/biggest-elevator-lifts-boats/) you can free-fall down. 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