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Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

London just unveiled plans to bore two 8-foot tunnels for 12 miles under the city carrying nothing but hot water, piping the heat a garbage incinerator vents into the sky today into 300,000 homes that burn gas to make the same heat again

London just unveiled plans to bore two 8-foot tunnels for 12 miles under the city carrying nothing but hot water, piping the heat a garbage incinerator vents into the sky today into 300,000 homes that burn gas to make the same heat again

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

The most photographed roof in Welsh sport just turned out to be hiding 3,296 solar panels, craned over the trusses of Cardiff’s rugby stadium in six quiet weeks, and on the sunniest afternoons the building now runs largely off the grid

The most photographed roof in Welsh sport just turned out to be hiding 3,296 solar panels, craned over the trusses of Cardiff’s rugby stadium in six quiet weeks, and on the sunniest afternoons the building now runs largely off the grid

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

Steady Energy LDR-50

Finland just ran a nuclear reactor past regulators from five countries and none found a showstopper, a machine with no turbine at all, running at the pressure of four car tires, built to do one thing: heat the pipes under a city

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

TBM Zelda breakthrough Bulleen

A 4,400-ton boring machine just began crawling out of Melbourne by night, broken into loads so big that traffic lights come down ahead of her, leaving her twin alone 148 feet under the river, chewing 33 feet a day until later this year

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

Pacific Grebe TN Eagle cask

A 165-ton nuclear cask that fits in a two-car garage but weighs as much as two Abrams tanks just got a British ship rebuilt around it, holds re-machined to the millimeter, to haul Japanese reactor fuel across the planet to France

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

Gabler Ranger USV sea trial

A German drone boat built to fire out of a 21-inch torpedo tube just passed its first sea trials, a 15-foot hull with a keel that folds flat and a mast that collapses, so a submarine can look above the waves without ever coming up

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026

News

Lucid Cosmos

A false bankruptcy rumor from a no-name blog just cut Lucid’s stock in half in a single day, tripping volatility halts over and over, before the EV maker denied it and the shares bounced back higher than where they started

Olivia Richman · Jul 20, 2026 7:00pm ET

Denza B8

China put almost four new car models on the market every single day in the first half of 2026, some 650 of them, while the entire United States is on track to launch 159 over four years — and Chinese buyers treat them like sneaker drops, not investments

Olivia Richman · Jul 18, 2026 5:30pm ET

Toyota Tundra

America just issued a federal safety recall for exactly one pickup truck, a single 2026 Toyota Tundra whose accessories made it 1 percent heavier than its label said — the paperwork puts the defect rate at 100 percent, and the fix is a new sticker

Olivia Richman · Jul 17, 2026 6:30pm ET

A breen Porsche Taycan next to a blue Porsche Tacyan

A two-year-old Porsche Taycan costs about half what its first owner paid, because it lost 50 percent of its value faster than almost any EV on the road — production is stopped, ten Porsches are rumored for the axe, and the 911 is the one still selling

Dave McQuilling · Jul 17, 2026 3:30pm ET

Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang outsold every non-premium sports car in America combined in the first half of 2026, something it hadn’t pulled off since 2008 — 28,725 sold against 4,007 for its closest rival, a seven-to-one beatdown of the Toyota GR86

Olivia Richman · Jul 14, 2026 7:30pm ET

Cars

A front 3/4 shot of a blue Subaru BRZ

I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one

Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 6:05pm ET

A red and blue toyota corolla cross passing on the road

While European drivers get a Corolla Cross that brakes and corners better in snow as standard, America gets the identical SUV with that mode switched off, the same rear motor already spinning underneath and only the software missing

Dave McQuilling · Jul 7, 2026 11:37am ET

faraday hybrid powertrain

American engineers just patented a hybrid powertrain that isn’t chained to the wheels, isn’t locked into charging the battery, and isn’t forced to do anything at all — an AI picks its job dozens of times a second

Luis Reyes · Jul 4, 2026 9:30am ET

Honda CR-V 2026

Not the F-150. Not the RAV4. America has a new best-selling vehicle halfway through 2026 — and it took a fire at the plant making 40% of the industry’s aluminum, plus Toyota breaking its own best-seller, to finally knock both champions off the top

Olivia Richman · Jul 3, 2026 6:30pm ET

Corvette Z06 Bathurst Edition

You’d think car colors would get more fun over time. A study of 22 million used cars says the opposite: gray grew sixfold since 1996, and the top color on American sports cars isn’t red

Olivia Richman · Jul 2, 2026 7:30pm ET

Energy

Riverside energy from waste Thames aerial

London just unveiled plans to bore two 8-foot tunnels for 12 miles under the city carrying nothing but hot water, piping the heat a garbage incinerator vents into the sky today into 300,000 homes that burn gas to make the same heat again

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 3:30pm ET

Principality Stadium solar panels roof

The most photographed roof in Welsh sport just turned out to be hiding 3,296 solar panels, craned over the trusses of Cardiff’s rugby stadium in six quiet weeks, and on the sunniest afternoons the building now runs largely off the grid

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 2:00pm ET

Steady Energy LDR-50

Finland just ran a nuclear reactor past regulators from five countries and none found a showstopper, a machine with no turbine at all, running at the pressure of four car tires, built to do one thing: heat the pipes under a city

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 12:30pm ET

Pacific Grebe TN Eagle cask

A 165-ton nuclear cask that fits in a two-car garage but weighs as much as two Abrams tanks just got a British ship rebuilt around it, holds re-machined to the millimeter, to haul Japanese reactor fuel across the planet to France

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 9:30am ET

oceanwell california desalination project

A desalination pod designed to trade power-hungry pumps for the weight of 1,300 feet of ocean just cleared its first endurance run, three months at 93% uptime, and gets lowered into Santa Monica Bay this fall for the test that counts

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 6:30am ET

EVs

A Rivian R2 crossing a stream

California just launched an instant $3,500 discount for first-time EV buyers, no application, no income cap, off the price before you drive away — and the $50,000 vehicle cap is waived entirely for automakers headquartered in the state, which hands Rivian and Lucid a golden ticket

Olivia Richman · Jul 14, 2026 6:00pm ET

MG Go!

America yearns for small, cute, affordable EVs and the MG GO! is exactly that — a friendly electric hatch previewing a 2027 production car that will fight the Renault 5 everywhere except the one market starving for it

Olivia Richman · Jul 13, 2026 7:00pm ET

Front view of a red Fiat Topolino

The Fiat Topolino is finally in the United States, but there’s a catch: You can’t drive it

Olivia Richman · Jul 8, 2026 7:30pm ET

slate truck

The Slate Truck starts at $24,950 with no crank windows and barely anything else, but check every box and it hits $46,294, so I built the cheapest version you could actually live with and commute in

Olivia Richman · Jul 8, 2026 6:00pm ET

Polestar 3

The US government just showed Polestar the door, so a 544-horsepower Swedish luxury crossover now sells for $39,300 and the single-motor version for less than a mid-trim Camry, cash discounts up to $25,000 that vanish July 31

Olivia Richman · Jul 6, 2026 6:30pm ET

Industry

lower thames crossing boring machine

Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 5:00pm ET

TBM Zelda breakthrough Bulleen

A 4,400-ton boring machine just began crawling out of Melbourne by night, broken into loads so big that traffic lights come down ahead of her, leaving her twin alone 148 feet under the river, chewing 33 feet a day until later this year

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 11:00am ET

Gabler Ranger USV sea trial

A German drone boat built to fire out of a 21-inch torpedo tube just passed its first sea trials, a 15-foot hull with a keel that folds flat and a mast that collapses, so a submarine can look above the waves without ever coming up

Luis Reyes · Jul 24, 2026 8:00am ET

SRL East TBM launch Burwood

Melbourne just launched eight 328-foot boring machines under its suburbs, and one of them will be run by the world’s first all-women tunnelling crew, 18 women picked from almost 870 applicants now training in hyperbaric chambers

Luis Reyes · Jul 23, 2026 5:00pm ET

lockheed MORFIUS X-Rotor drone

A drone killer that fires nothing at all just broke cover in England, built to fly into a swarm, switch on a microwave and knock out more than 50 drones in one flight by frying their electronics, then land, get picked up and go again

Luis Reyes · Jul 23, 2026 12:30pm ET

Hybrids

tkms submarine german mum

The German yard that just won Canada’s biggest-ever defence deal for up to 12 crewed submarines has a stranger boat still dry in the shed — an 82-foot crewless one stacked from shipping containers, built around the box instead of to fit inside it, and running on hydrogen

Luis Reyes · Jul 18, 2026

A red Toyota Corolla hybrid in motion

“Every hybrid we’ve ever owned, lied to us”: Edmunds reveals the reality of EPA rated mpg and it’s not pretty

Olivia Richman · Jun 14, 2026

Toyota Crown Platinum 2026

This Toyota Has 340 Horsepower, Hybrid Efficiency, and Every Premium Feature You’d Expect — and No One Is Buying It

Dave McQuilling · May 9, 2026

Toyota RAV4

It’s an Outback, It’s a Forester… No, It’s the New Toyota RAV4 Revealed at the Auto China Show

Olivia Richman · Apr 24, 2026

An Audi RS Q5 test mule in Germany

Audi Has Spent Years Losing the Performance SUV War to BMW. New Spy Shots From the Nürburgring Suggest That’s About to Change

Dave McQuilling · Apr 15, 2026

Toyota Prius

The Prius is selling so poorly, it could leave the United States market — and Toyota doesn’t really mind

Olivia Richman · Apr 11, 2026

Performance

Bentley Torcal

Bentley just replaced the roar of a V8 in its first electric car with a live drum kit, viola and bass, after studio tests showed what people actually miss about the engine is the rhythm, not the exhaust

Olivia Richman · Jul 20, 2026 5:30pm ET

gordan murray le mans classic

Gordon Murray just ran his new Le Mans GTR prototype around the Circuit de la Sarthe with Dario Franchitti driving, a longtail V12 with a six-speed manual, and all 24 being built are already sold before anyone outside the buyers has seen a price

Olivia Richman · Jul 7, 2026 8:00pm ET

Hennessey Venom

Hennessey just revealed a 2,031-horsepower hypercar at Goodwood with something almost no hypercar offers anymore, a gated six-speed manual you shift by hand, and only 12 will ever be built, each starting at $2.64 million

Olivia Richman · Jul 7, 2026 6:30pm ET

Ford F-150 Baja Raptor R

Shelby just pushed the Ford F-150 Baja Raptor past 1,000 horsepower, out-muscling the Cybertruck — and the price lands at practically $200,000 for a pickup truck

Olivia Richman · Jul 2, 2026 6:00pm ET

Ferrari Luce

Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster

Olivia Richman · Jun 30, 2026 6:30pm ET

Reviews & Guides

A front 3/4 shot of a blue Subaru BRZ

I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one

Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 6:05pm ET

Hyundai Ioniq 5

The three electric SUVs that undercut the Tesla Model Y on price all did the same thing Tesla will not: they kept the buttons — a Hyundai at $35,000 with a gauge cluster, a Kia that charges 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes, and a Rivian with a bigger frunk

Olivia Richman · Jul 17, 2026 5:00pm ET

2026 Ford mustang gt

Two tickets to the World Cup Final cost $33,698. The average used car in America costs $27,046. So here are five cars you could buy instead of watching one soccer game, from a Civic to a 480-horsepower Mustang

Olivia Richman · Jun 16, 2026 9:00am ET

An orange Car camping tent on the back of an SUV

Planning on car camping this summer? Here are a few things you’ll need

Dave McQuilling · Jun 8, 2026 6:30pm ET

fuel filler cap

My Dad Asked Why His BMW Still Has a Gas Cap When Newer Cars Don’t. I Write About Cars for a Living and Had No Idea — So I Looked Into Why Carmakers Quietly Killed the Cap, and Why BMW Didn’t

Olivia Richman · May 31, 2026 5:00pm ET

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