China’s first C-14 nuclear battery "Zhulong No. 1" engineering prototype jointly developed by Wuxi Beta and the team of Northwest Normal University has been successfully launched. With the half-life of C-14 isotope as long as 5730 years, "Zhulong No. 1" theoretically has an ultra-long service life of thousands of years.
At the same time, the battery has excellent performance in extreme temperature adaptability, energy density and performance stability: it can work stably in the temperature range of -100”ę to 200”ę, with an energy density of up to 2200mWh/g, and a performance decay rate of less than 5% within the 50-year design life. At the same time, it supports milliwatt-level pulse discharge and intelligent energy management, and can flexibly adapt to a variety of application scenarios.
The production and sales of the automobile industry in February 2025 released by CAAM, showed that the production and sales of new energy vehicles in February were 888,000 and 892,000 respectively, up 91.5% and 87.1% year-on-year respectively, and the sales of new energy vehicles accounted for 41.9% of the total sales of new vehicles. From January to February, the production and sales of new energy vehicles were 1.903 million and 1.835 million respectively, up 52% year-on-year, and the sales of new energy vehicles accounted for 40.3% of the total sales of new vehicles.
Guangzhou autonomous driving technology company WeRide, together with French companies Renault Group, Fbeti and Macif, launched L4 autonomous driving travel service in Drome, France. WeRide provides a number of minibuses with L4 autonomous driving technology. The autonomous driving shuttle route opened this time is 3.3 kilometers long, covering high-speed rail stations, long-term parking lots, business district catering centers, and 3,000 employees of more than 150 companies in the 162-hectare park. The official operation will start in July this year, and the scale and scope of services will be further expanded.
China Xi'an Institute of Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology has successfully achieved high-power stable operation of the entire system of a large-thrust magnetic plasma engine, with an effective power exceeding 100 kilowatts. The engine generates plasma by ionizing the working fluid and accelerates it with an electromagnetic field to form thrust. It has the characteristics of high efficiency and high safety and is suitable for deep space exploration, interstellar navigation and other fields.
The team overcame technical difficulties such as high-power stable transmission, and adopted new 3D printing materials and high-temperature superconducting magnet technology to make the engine performance reach the international advanced level.
Raydiculous-1, the first humanoid robot task planning and reasoning execution system in China, that can independently complete cross-space tasks without human intervention or remote control, was officially unveiled. The system has long-view reasoning and planning capabilities in executing large-space and cross-space tasks, and has the characteristics of autonomous learning and handling cross-scenario tasks, which greatly improves the practicality of humanoid robots and is a new breakthrough in the construction of the "brain" of "made in Chengdu" humanoid robots.
