Auto enthusiasts know that BYD and Tesla dominate the Chinese EV market, but that may soon change with the introduction of NIO’s Alps Onvo sub-brand. The L60 is expected to be the sub-brand’s first model and should be priced from around $27,800 USD.
Joshua Turner used a Iflight Nazgul Evoque V2 drone and GoPro 11 Mini to capture breathtaking footage of the 2,073-foot Shanghai Tower. What makes the footage you’re about to see so special is the fact that as of January 2024, drone flights in controlled areas of Shanghai require approval in advance.
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China’s Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF), located beneath Jinping Mountain in Sichuan’s Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is now the world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory.
Researchers from Wuhan University in China debut InvisDefense, a real-life invisibility cloak. This creation doesn’t make use of other worldly materials, just a bespoke lenticular grid formed from a row of small convex cylindrical lenses that allow light to be refracted regularly, paired with a normal-looking coat.
Huawei’s Ox Horn Campus, a research center on Songshan Lake in Dongguan, was modeled after a dozen European cities and cost $1.5 billion to complete. The company plans on transferring approximately 25,000 employees from their Shenzhen office to this new headquarters, as they are offering them company-exclusive homes for easy transportation.
EHang Holdings Limited announced today that their EH216-S passenger carrying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system has received a type certificate (TC) from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). This basically means that the EH216-S is qualified for conducting passenger-carrying UAV commercial operations.
McDonald’s China partnered with Tesla to release the Cyber Spoon. It appears to be available through an app and costs around $4.10 USD, but that price may also include a special edition McFlurry. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the Cyber Spoon does not appear to be made out of a stainless steel alloy like its real-life counterpart.
The world’s largest single-capacity offshore wind turbine by the China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), called MySE 16-260, is now operational in the Taiwan Strait. Its central tower stands 499-feet tall, while the generator weighs in at a hefty 385 tons, and is capable of generating 66 gigawatt-hours of energy per year, or enough to power 36,000 homes.