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Chema Bonilla Díaz

Chema Bonilla covers the auto industry and mobility from Madrid, with a focus on new model launches, the arrival of emerging manufacturers in Europe, and the pace of electrification across the region. He trained in automotive technology before studying journalism at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid, and has written for the Spanish motoring outlets Motorlife Magazine and Auto10.com. He also specializes in digital and social publishing. His beat gives AutoNotion readers a view of developments that hit Europe first: Chinese brands building out dealer networks, EV mandates already in force, and model launches that reach the US years later, if at all.

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Fervo Cape Station Utah Wells

Utah wells averaging 14,483 feet, each turned sideways for 5,000 feet, are pushing water through 400-degree rock to a 33-megawatt power plant, and it started selling that electricity to California a day before its contract said it had to

10.10.2026
sea archer drone

A 19,800-pound American drone boat spent two weeks running around the clock in an Australian port and can watch one patch of ocean for 23 days on 790 gallons of diesel, from a hull 37 feet long that fits inside a 40-foot shipping container

10.09.2026
Royal Navy Strike Warrior Cape Wrath submarine

A 2,017-ton German submarine surfaced off the tip of Scotland so British commandos could ride inflatable boats ashore, climb the cliffs and aim a 401-foot Portuguese frigate’s gun at targets inland, a level of coordination their unit had not managed in nearly 30 years

10.09.2026
Kraken K3 Scout Saab Giraffe 1X drone boat

A 5,500-pound British drone boat went to sea carrying a 330-pound radar that spins a full circle every second hunting drones lighter than a milk carton out to 2.5 miles, because a drone skimming the waves stays under a ship’s own radar until it is already close

10.09.2026
USS Wyoming Ohio-class submarine Bangor

An 18,750-ton American missile submarine came through Puget Sound and moored in Washington the same day its sister submarine arrived in Georgia, the boats swapped home ports after 30 and 24 years on their old coasts, and the sailors stayed put and took over each other’s boat

10.08.2026
ZeroUSV Oceanus17 drone boat

A 56-foot British drone boat built to carry 8,818 pounds in a 20-foot shipping-container slot spent September off Portugal catching what sonobuoys radio back, a job a patrol aircraft burns flight hours circling to do, and the Royal Navy has already bought a second receiver

10.07.2026
REPMUS 2026 Bartolomeu Dias USV Navy Leaders

A force of more than 60 drone boats and aircraft staged a simulated attack on a 3,660-ton frigate at night, while 20–30 uncrewed escorts defended it and nine separate command systems shared a network for coordinating the exercise

10.06.2026
USS Wisconsin battleship Nauticus Norfolk tugboats

A 45,000-ton battleship was pushed four feet off her pier in Norfolk by tugboats without starting an engine, her first move in 26 years, so crews could swap two rubber fenders, and the second one came out with the ship’s paint stuck to it after a year of planning

10.06.2026
Speartooth LUUV Bold Machina

A 39.4-foot drone submarine turned up at a NATO exercise in Portugal carrying a rig whose only job is rehearsing a payload drop, with nothing live leaving the hull while engineers read the telemetry, and the US Navy has already taken delivery of the same long version

10.06.2026
ACUA Ocean USV Pioneer

A 47-foot drone boat launched and recovered a 375-pound underwater robot over 40 times off England with nobody on the water, standing on two torpedo-shaped hulls that give waves almost nothing to grab, and its pilots sat in two countries while Germany watched live

10.05.2026
Arquimea Q-SLAM-40

A 23-foot drone boat fired a winged kamikaze drone out of a launcher on its deck at a NATO exercise, the aircraft popped its wings open and streamed live video into the Spanish fleet’s combat software on the way to its target, and nobody was aboard the boat or the aircraft

10.05.2026
MK 48 Torpedo

A 24-pound mini-torpedo built to disable hostile underwater drones was tested with an airborne carrier drone at a NATO exercise in Portugal, and the 3.3-foot weapon hunts by pinging like a bat, because electric drones run too quiet for a passive listener to hear

10.05.2026
NS Savannah Baltimore ship

A 595-foot ship that sailed 450,000 nautical miles on 163 pounds of uranium is running out of time to find a home, the plan to move her to a museum berth just fell apart, and the first nuclear-powered merchant ship ever built could end up in a scrapyard

10.04.2026
MKE Pirana KIDA drone boat

An 18-foot drone boat ran into a surface target off Turkey and set off a live 220-pound warhead for the first time, after trials with an inert lump bolted in where the bomb goes, and the target was picked out for it by a drone aircraft flying its own first navy exercise

10.03.2026
HMS Agamemnon Barrow departure

An 8,157-ton nuclear attack submarine needed four tugboats lashed to her sides to get out of the English shipyard that spent 13 years building her, threading two docks and a sharp turn before the open channel, and the fleet she joins hadn’t put one to sea in four months

10.03.2026
USS Harry S. Truman Newport News

A 1,092-foot nuclear aircraft carrier moved from her pier in Norfolk to the shipyard that built her, starting a five-year overhaul where the yard cuts through the hull to swap the reactor cores, the only refueling she gets in a service life built to run past 50 years

10.03.2026
Saronic Marauder

A 180-foot drone ship spent eight days at sea clearing more than 140 Navy test scenarios without a failure, sailing 414 miles on a single push of a button with every tanker and fishing boat dodged on its own — and the Navy is now buying 30 drone ships from three builders

10.02.2026
Phalanx CIWS USS Mustin

A 13,600-pound gun that finds a missile, decides to shoot and judges the kill on its own is the last layer of a US destroyer’s defenses, with a 1,550-round drum that lasts about 20 seconds at full rate — and new Navy footage shows one practicing its aim in the Indian Ocean

10.01.2026
STARK Vanta 12 USV drone

A 39-foot drone boat from a German startup, built to carry 10 attack drones and four anti-ship missiles, launched its drones during a NATO exercise off Portugal, and its 20-foot sister boat in German military hands carries nothing that shoots

10.01.2026
VideoRay Defender Viper

A 38-pound underwater drone holds still against the current on seven thrusters, fires a demolition charge into a sea mine hard enough to stick, then backs away paying out the firing line — everything comes home except the charge, and Ukraine has already used it in combat

09.30.2026
HS2 TBM Karen launch Old Oak Common

A shield of 12 cast-iron frames, nearly 8 tons apiece, held 36 men one to a cell as they dug the first tunnel under the Thames, 75 feet below high tide, each man screwing his cell forward off the finished brickwork — and every tunnel boring machine on Earth still runs on that idea

09.30.2026
WB Group StormRider 550 drone

An 18-foot Polish drone boat that weighs about 1,430 pounds, runs 24 hours on an outboard and tops out near 30 knots comes in two shapes, a tall one with radar and sonar on a mast and a low one cut down to stay out of sight for strike missions

09.30.2026
BAE Systems Archerfish underwater drone

An underwater drone that goes into the sea from a box lowered by a hovering helicopter is flown to the mine by hand through a fiber-optic thread, because radio dies in seawater — and the Navy has penciled in up to 668 of a drone that never comes back

09.29.2026
Snowy hydro machine

An 823-foot cavern half a mile inside an Australian mountain just got its first permanent concrete, and the six turbines going in next push water uphill between two lakes when power is cheap and let it fall back when demand spikes — enough to run 3 million homes for a week

09.29.2026
ROMULUS 151 Breaux Brothers drone

A 151-foot drone ship built keel-up in a Louisiana yard just got flipped upright by cranes, its frames, bulkheads and plating complete, and the deck and pilothouse go on next — while a second yard down the coast builds the fifth hull of the run

09.29.2026
bluefin 9 underwater drone

A 155-pound underwater drone that hunts sea mines for the Australian navy is built to skip the six-hour recharge: two sailors pull its battery and the 1-terabyte memory that processes the sonar while it swims, slide in loaded spares, and send it back under in 30 minutes

09.28.2026
USS Jimmy Carter submarine

A 453-foot submarine stretched by a 100-foot section spliced into its middle has worked as the US Navy’s only special warfare support boat for 21 years, carrying divers, robots and cable-handling gear, and its replacement just surfaced in a shipyard job listing

09.27.2026
Exail K-Ster C drone

A 110-pound underwater drone built to be used exactly once tilts its shaped-charge head onto a sea mine and goes up with it, steered from outside the minefield by an operator who reaches for the next one in the rack, and Ukraine is getting three boatloads

09.27.2026
Sea Machines MH-47G barge landing

A 54,000-pound twin-rotor special operations helicopter set down on a self-driving drone barge holding position with nobody aboard, took on supplies right on deck, and the landing is the first of its kind the American public has been told about

09.26.2026
IQUA Robotics Sparus II underwater drone

A 115-pound underwater drone runs like a torpedo on two tail thrusters and spins a third pointing straight down to stop and hover over anything shaped like a mine, and the Spanish Navy launches the 5.2-foot machine from small boats so a diver doesn’t have to go down first

09.26.2026
Teledyne Slocum Sentinel glider

Nineteen 154-pound underwater drone gliders with no propellers flew at once off Portugal in NATO’s biggest uncrewed naval exercise, hunting submarines by listening, and a bigger 377-pound glider dragged a line of hydrophones through the water behind it

09.25.2026
Sefine MARLIN USV

A 49-foot drone boat, the first the Turkish navy ever commissioned, laid a training version of a smart seabed mine once under remote control and once fully on its own, and the live mine waits on the bottom at up to 328 feet for a ship’s sound, magnetism and pressure

09.25.2026
MARUM MeBo200 seafloor drill

An 11-ton drill rig that ships as a standard 20-foot container gets lowered as deep as 8,858 feet to the seabed on a single 1.4-inch cable, stands itself on four legs and drills 492 feet into the bottom, with every watt it burns coming down that one wire

09.24.2026
Saildrone Surveyor

A 65-foot drone ship that maps the seafloor partly under sail, with no engine room rumbling through the hull, returned soundings a university team rated as good as any survey ship’s, and the US Navy has now pointed it at the open Atlantic for a year

09.23.2026
saildrone explorer drone

A 23-foot American drone sailboat that rides the wind on a 15-foot rigid wing turned up burning in an Iranian video at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and four days later a US drone put two missiles into boats grabbing at another Navy surface drone

09.23.2026
Drone submarine XV Excalibur

While Britain introduced its first drone submarine as a demonstrator that would not perform operational duties, the 39-foot boat fired a heavyweight torpedo in UK waters 16 months later, the first launched from an uncrewed submarine by Britain or the US

09.22.2026
Ocean Power Technologies WAM-V 8

An 8-foot drone boat drawing 4 inches of water spent a week driving into breaking surf on purpose for an Army lab in North Carolina, because the churned-up strip where waves fold over is the gap in the charts that survey boats and divers both stay out of

09.22.2026
AEVEX Mako Lite drone

A 110-inch drone boat weighing 455 pounds empty spent two weeks off a California beach hunting mock mines the Marines built for it, and it carries sonar and an infrared camera up to 250 nautical miles on a tank of no more than 30 gallons

09.21.2026
Virginie Boring machine

A 1,764-ton tunnel borer spent 19 months grinding about 98 feet under two runways and Terminal 2 at Paris’s main airport while planes kept landing on schedule above her, and a crane has now lifted her 33-foot cutting wheel out of the exit pit

09.21.2026
HMS Swiftsure submarine dismantling Rosyth

While the US Navy cuts the reactor block out of its old nuclear submarines and buries it whole in a desert trench, Britain has cut 2,695 tons off a 272-foot Cold War attack submarine in a Scottish dry dock, taking one fully apart for the first time anywhere

09.20.2026
Alseamar SeaExplorer glider

A 130-pound drone glider built without wings went into the water while American and German sailors spent five days dropping practice mines off Portugal, and it can dive to 3,281 feet and climb back by pumping oil in and out of a bladder, logging what bends sonar

09.20.2026
MBARI LRAUV Tethys long-range AUV drone

Two 242.5-pound drones drove themselves out to a mooring off California ahead of a research ship to follow a drifting trap by the sound of its beacon and photograph the top 656 feet of ocean while the trap catches the dead plankton sinking below it

09.19.2026
ROV Hercules Nautilus

A 5,500-pound underwater drone swept the slopes off Wake Island using sonar for 64 hours, covering a 490-foot-wide strip at a time—compared to less than 33 feet for its lights—in search of the first Japanese surface warship sunk in World War II

09.19.2026
Rheinmetall Mission Master SP US Marine Corps

A 10-foot electric drone on eight wheels carries 2,200 pounds of a Marine squad’s water, ammunition and batteries, close to its own 2,500-pound weight, and the Marines are buying 12 more of them plus five kits that let it swim, where its load drops to 660 pounds

09.18.2026
Quantum Systems Subvex underwater drone

A German drone submarine 13.8 feet long and 882 pounds is built to fit a standard torpedo tube, swim four days on a 42-kWh battery and sit on the seabed listening for weeks, rated for the same 19,685 feet as the three-ton American one Iran hauled in

09.17.2026
EvoLogics Manta Ray AUV Fraunhofer IZM

A German drone with an 8-foot manta-ray wingspan flaps over real defused bombs on a Baltic test range and picks up metal buried 20 inches in the mud, while 1.8 million tons of war munitions rust off Germany

09.16.2026
Liebherr R 9600 excavator

A 660-ton excavator moved 22.2 million cubic yards out of an Australian coal mine in a year, four times what it took to dig Hoover Dam, in 6,840 hours of work

09.16.2026
ROV Comanche drone

A 2,491-pound Irish underwater drone spent 18 days hunting hydrothermal vents in the Greenland Sea through a 3,000-volt cable from a research ship, and the whole rig weighs 22 tons

09.15.2026
SEABER YUCO-PHYSICO TalTech drone

A 21-pound underwater drone caught oxygen-starved water rising from the bottom of the Baltic to the surface off Germany after two days of east wind, in shallows where research gliders can’t operate

09.15.2026
ASELSAN TUFAN kamikaze USV

A 26-foot Turkish drone boat that carries 551 pounds of explosive in its bow and hits by ramming went into the water for the first time at a naval yard on the Sea of Marmara, does 50 knots on a gasoline waterjet, and 40 of them are already on order

09.14.2026
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