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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.
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Point Lepreau Nuclear Station

A Canadian lab just ran a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years, with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor

07.21.2026
second avenue subway tunnel boring machine

A 700-ton German machine that reads the ground ahead and changes its own tools on the move is why New York just broke ground on a subway a century in the making, built so it can’t jam the way Seattle’s Bertha did for two years

07.21.2026
cylinder china hydraulic

China just built a hydraulic cylinder the size of a 17-story building that shoves with the force of 3,500 cars and recycles the energy of its own downstroke like an EV’s brakes, and the ship it powers just got its first job off Brazil

07.21.2026
BAE Herne XLUUV submarine

Britain just showed off a 12-meter drone submarine built to be ordered off the shelf like a product instead of commissioned one at a time, running 45 days underwater on a hydrogen fuel cell and set to go on sale by the end of 2026

07.21.2026
Marvel Fusion laser

A German fusion company just topped out a laser lab on a Colorado hillside built to fire a burst 5,000 times the entire US power grid onto a speck the width of a hair, ten times a second, the trick that turns a physics demo into a power source

07.21.2026
solar farm cows

A Virginia couple just bred a cow to fit a solar farm, a calm 1,000-pound cross of four old breeds they call inverter cattle, designed to eat the weeds under live panels without rubbing the equipment into an expensive wreck

07.21.2026
tmb lyon

A 3,200-ton machine three football fields long just arrived under the Alps hauled 500 kilometers in pieces, now being assembled inside the tunnel it’s meant to dig because there’s no other way to move it, and it won’t cut rock for months

07.21.2026
Dark Eagle LRHW launcher

After nearly a decade chasing a hypersonic missile too fast to intercept, America just finished its first battery of them, eight rounds built about one a month partly by hand, and Central Command already wants to send them at Iran

07.20.2026
invertia Livermore factory fusion ignition

California just opened the first factory built to mass-produce fusion fuel pellets by the million, paired with a laser designed to fire ten times a second instead of the once a day the famous 2022 fusion shot could manage

07.20.2026
ocean winds france floating wind farm

France just switched on the first floating wind farm designed to grow fish, three turbines 16 kilometers out with 32 oyster-shell cages bolted to one float, turning the reef that grows on offshore foundations by accident into the actual plan

07.20.2026
nuclear arm robot reactor

A robot shaped like a metal giraffe swims into Japan’s nuclear reactors, grabs the steel wall with vacuum-pad feet and reads the welds with an ultrasonic wand, soaking up a radiation dose that would kill the person who’d otherwise do it

07.20.2026
Chongming Taicang tunnel boring machine

A 4,000-ton Chinese machine with a cutting wheel the size of a five-story building just bored 11,182 meters under the Yangtze without stopping, guided from the surface so trains can cross the river at 350 km/h and never slow down

07.20.2026
orpheus auv nautilus

A neon submarine drone just spent a month hopping across the deep Pacific floor nearly four miles down, dropping onto the mud to grab a core, then skipping to the next spot to map a seabed almost nobody has ever seen

07.20.2026
Sage Geosystems EarthStore hydro

A Texas company is turning pumped hydro upside down, drilling two miles into hot rock instead of damming a mountain and letting the squeezed ground push the water back up a well through a turbine, storing power for 6 to 10 hours

07.20.2026
Samsung Heavy salten molten reactor

South Korea just lined up one of the planet’s biggest shipyards to weld nuclear reactors onto barges and float them out like cargo ships, a Danish design stacked two to eight per hull, up to 800 megawatts a platform

07.19.2026
hengli crane

The biggest crane on dry land tops out at 6,000 tons, and a shipyard in Dalian is bolting together two that lift more than 10,500 each, on a span longer than two and a half football fields — 12,700 tons of steel that has not picked up a single thing yet

07.19.2026
Mesquite Texas General Dynamics 155mm

America just learned a Texas plant it paid 469 million dollars has not forged one usable artillery shell body in two years — which is why the country that wanted 100,000 rounds a month is stuck at 36,000, held up not by the explosive but by the plain steel can

07.19.2026
Bavaria solar canopy highway Hallbergmoos

Bavaria roofed 35 meters of highway in solar glass and then did what almost no green-energy pilot does — it published the bill: 4.2 million euros, which works out to 20,000 euros per kilowatt, more than ten times what the same panels cost lying in a field

07.19.2026
ACP100 Linglong One Dome

China just lit a full-size reactor that beat the small modular one next door to first criticality, on the same island, a fence between them — and the small one, 216 days late, costs two and a half times more per megawatt to build

07.19.2026
wind turbine power

A 105-meter wind turbine tower made of laminated spruce has been spinning outside a Swedish town for 15,000 hours, stronger by the pound than the steel it replaces and emitting 90 percent less carbon — because a steel tower gets too wide to truck down a road past about 100 meters

07.19.2026
DFKI MARIOW underwater welding robot

A German six-axis robot arm just welded a steel seam underwater with no diver present, an AI camera finding the joint and a continuous wire feeding the arc — taking over a job that kills at 40 times the rate of the average paycheck, one of the deadliest anyone does

07.19.2026
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

07.18.2026
Komatsu excavator

A 896-ton German excavator that grabs 80 tons of rock a scoop crossed the Atlantic in 31 pieces to reach a Canadian mine, and its maker will now sell the electric version worldwide — a building-sized machine plugged into the grid like an enormous slot car

07.18.2026
fusion reactor

A Wisconsin fusion company just lit a lightbulb off the particles leaking out of its reactor, no turbine and no steam, running the strongest magnetic field ever put on a plasma at 17 tesla — and the $500 million machine is going inside the plant that made America’s hot dogs

07.18.2026
Brenner Base Tunnel breakthrough Wilma Olga

Two 2,600-ton German machines are grinding out the last 6 kilometers of the longest railway tunnel ever dug, 64 kilometers under the Alps built to take the trucks off the pass overhead — where one still crosses every 12 seconds, around the clock, all year

07.18.2026
mitsubishi jamstec auv ex1

Mitsubishi built the Zero fighter and Japan’s warships for a century, and just handed the navy two robot submarines with no crew — one 20 tons, one 30 tons and longer than a city bus, running a week on batteries — from the badge on your neighbor’s crossover

07.18.2026
Last Energy microrreactor

While its rivals chase reactors cooled by liquid sodium and molten salt, an Austin company is stamping out 30 copies of the boring 1950s pressurized-water reactor instead — betting a Texas grid facing 43 gigawatts of new data-center demand wants unclever, not clever

07.18.2026
solar crosses

Austria just wired the first 60 of 800 vertical solar crosses into a glacier ski resort at 9,350 feet, where a hard winter drops 26 feet of snow and nobody ever cleans them — each cross is shaped so the wind scours a crater around it that doubles as a mirror on the panel’s back

07.18.2026
Blykalla reactor

A Swedish company wants to cool six reactors with molten lead so the coolant never boils, letting a 3-centimeter wall replace the 20 centimeters of steel a water reactor needs and the lead itself replace the concrete shield. One unit makes 55 megawatts; six run 150,000 homes

07.17.2026
Virginie Boring machine

A 1,500-ton boring machine with no brakes of its own went down a 6 percent grade at the end of a Charles de Gaulle runway on 34 axle lines, held back by a winch paying out cable — she weighs what ten loaded 747s weigh, and she covered 650 meters in five hours

07.17.2026
MK 48 Torpedo

A 1.9-ton torpedo is 650 pounds of bomb bolted to $4.2 million of guidance America builds 79 times a year, and the one that missed an Iranian frigate in March is still down there — a Rhode Island plant is pressing flat-sided boxes instead, the way IKEA presses shelving

07.17.2026
sellafield robot dog nuclear

Britain just sent a robot dog into the rooms where a human gets a sealed suit and a clock, on a 136 billion pound cleanup that runs to 2125 — the dog has no clock, drags a paper filter across the wall by copying a man’s hand, and the first thing it carried out was blue chalk

07.17.2026
Stella Rose TBM Woodsmith

While every big tunnel gets a 1,775-ton German cutterhead shipped in by the piece and named after a woman, Norway reaches for explosives instead — and a two-man firm just told Britain that buys the same Pennine tunnel for £2 billion against its own £11.6 billion

07.17.2026
black wind turbine

An eagle’s eye is so good that past a certain speed the blade tip smears into a hole it flies straight at, which is why Norway painted one blade black on four turbines and cut deaths 72 percent — and the first outfit to try it offshore hung a 379-foot red one, because black cooks

07.17.2026
West Burton fusion reactor

Britain just filed for a fusion reactor that comes apart in rings you can unbolt one at a time, instead of the 23,000-ton welded can everyone else builds — and the plant it is meant for targets 100 megawatts in 2040, while the gas station next door makes thirteen times that tonight

07.16.2026
Northolt hs2 boring machine

The hero shot is always the 650-foot German machine, and back up the tube out of frame there is a shed full of compressors pushing brine at 26 below into the dirt until the sand turns into a 6.5-foot wall of ice — and it does not get to stop until the concrete is in

07.16.2026
solar cells australia

Australia prints solar cells onto plastic film the same way it prints its banknotes, off a roll, with no gold inside and no furnace anywhere in the process, on film light enough to clip to a backpack, and it sent a strip of the stuff into orbit to see if it would survive

07.16.2026
vortex bladeless wind turbine

While the rest of the industry races to build turbines with 200-foot blades, a Spanish startup has spent ten years on a wind machine with no blades at all, a 33-pound pole that shakes — and the biggest one it has running makes 100 watts

07.16.2026
usa taiwan andnuril dive

While Taiwan’s own drone submarine sits on the end of a fiber-optic cable with two torpedo tubes and no AI aboard, its state weapons lab just bought a three-ton American robot that swims 100 miles blind and surfaces 100 yards off — banned from carrying a weapon

07.16.2026
hudson tunnel boring machine

Four boring machines 498 feet long each will dig New York’s new rail tunnel in two pairs with different cutterheads, because a machine built for 35,000-psi volcanic rock is the wrong tool for the saturated mud waiting on the Manhattan side

07.16.2026
solar farm tibet

China just bolted 50 megawatts of solar panels over an alpine meadow at 11,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau, and the dark silicon that should have baked the ground like a parking lot froze it for 50 extra days a year instead, seven more weeks of winter under the rows

07.16.2026
colossal crane nuclear reactor darlington

Canada just lowered a 1,050-ton slab of steel and concrete into a 115-foot shaft in Ontario and ended a decade of talk, starting the Western world’s first grid-scale small nuclear reactor, a machine that fits on two soccer fields and powers 300,000 homes

07.16.2026
tunnel adelaide darlington machine

A 3,858-ton German machine named Mary just started spinning a 49-foot cutting wheel under Adelaide’s houses, working 24/7 with 20 specialists riding inside her — and on a good day she covers 33 feet

07.16.2026
REMUS 600 torpedo tube submarine recovery

America just fires a drone out of an attack submarine’s torpedo tube off Norway and catches it coming back through the same hole ten hours later, with nobody in the water, after losing the first one it ever launched that way

07.15.2026
Ship Canal Water Quality Project tunnel boring Seattle

A 7-foot machine with nobody inside just passed under a Seattle main street, shoved forward by hydraulic jacks parked in a shaft weeks behind it — it has no engine, and the concrete pipe it drags along is both the tunnel and the drivetrain

07.15.2026
Fehmarnbelt tunnel element immersion pontoon

Two 73,500-ton boxes are on the bottom of the Baltic and the third is the one that decides everything — 51 days between the first two against a plan of 12, and 87 left to sink before this is a tunnel

07.15.2026
ICON El Cosmico Marfa printing

A robot arm on steel tracks is printing the world’s first 3D hotel in the West Texas desert with barely a right angle on 60 acres, 43 domes north of Marfa — and the reason it’s round is that the nozzle chokes on anything bigger than a grain of sand

07.15.2026
Vesta olivine beach Southampton green sand

A company dumped 650 tons of crushed green volcanic rock onto a Long Island beach to eat carbon out of the air — eleven months later, the spot where they put it measured zero percent, because the sand walked off the site while they were trying to measure it

07.15.2026
acu molten salt reactor next texas

A reactor with no fuel rods and no pellets runs on uranium dissolved into molten salt, a liquid you could pour, at roughly the pressure of the air around you — and it’s going into a science building across the street from a student dormitory in West Texas

07.15.2026
Coxwell Bypass Tunnel Donnie TBM Toronto

A 1,000-tonne machine crossed a buried prehistoric valley under Toronto with less than six metres of rock left over its head, cutting a hole wide enough to park two buses side by side — the city that once built these machines for six continents now ships its own in from Germany

07.15.2026
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