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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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ORNL MedUSA wire arc printing

A 3-by-5-foot American steel pressure vessel just got printed in Tennessee by three robotic arms laying molten wire at 100 pounds an hour — Oak Ridge and Idaho National Lab want 10,000-pound nuclear parts made without a forge

08.22.2026
San Juan Solar New Mexico pronghorn

While a Wyoming solar farm with one fence sent pronghorn a mile away, 75 GPS collars in New Mexico show America’s fastest land animal walking the aisles of a 1,100-acre, 200-megawatt plant — 60 mph, cannot jump a six-foot fence, and every gap between the nine arrays has traffic

08.22.2026
Ecoppia solar cleaning robot

Autonomous robots now live on desert solar rows, wake up after dark, brush the glass dry with no water and park to recharge off their own panel — dirty glass costs 7 to 50 percent of a farm’s output, and after a dust storm it can hit 80 percent

08.22.2026
german shaft borer

A 197-foot German shaft borer is hanging like a chandelier under an English national park, 2,966 feet down, a spinning drum milling 8-inch passes while a vacuum sucks the rock out — nobody on the floor, no explosives, 2,283 feet still to go

08.21.2026
SkyCool Systems solar panels Target

Target has more than 600 roof panels across 21 stores that look like solar and make exactly zero watts, mirrors dumping heat into space through a five-micron gap in the sky — water and glycol come back colder than a Texas afternoon, and the condensers work less hard

08.21.2026
ENERGYNEST thermal battery

A 40-megawatt-hour concrete battery is going into tesa’s Hamburg tape factory this fall, 24 modules and a 10-megawatt heater, four hours to fill — it buys power when Germany is paying people to take it and turns it into steam, covering two-thirds of the plant

08.21.2026
Halliburton drilling rig

A 22-inch Halliburton well is going sideways under a Texas cow pasture, triple the usual oil hole, so a 5,000-pound nuclear-waste canister can go down and come back up — no spent fuel on the pad, just the drill, a hole opener, and a warning about snakes

08.21.2026
indianapolis motor speedway solar farm

A 9-megawatt, 39,000-panel solar array is sitting next to the Indy 500 backstretch, 68 acres, the largest at any sports venue on Earth — the loudest thousand acres in American sport, and not a single kilowatt goes into the Speedway

08.21.2026
rondo heat battery bricks

A 6-megawatt heat pump is running at Heineken’s brewery north of Lisbon, grabbing waste heat off the refrigerators and cutting about half the plant’s thermal carbon — the 100-megawatt-hour brick battery that makes 100-bar steam slipped from April 2027 to 2028

08.21.2026
Flamanville EPR edf reactor

A 1,650-megawatt French reactor is selling power on the English Channel, the most powerful unit in the fleet, a 425-ton vessel and the largest steam turbine ever built — and on September 26 it goes dark for 350 days because the rulebook says so

08.21.2026
Squire Seaglider craft

A 13-foot American drone just ran an electronic-warfare gauntlet in Michigan, a 50-pound cargo seaglider that floats, then foils, then flies at 70 knots a wingspan off the water — the Marines said they would decide on Pacific use if it passed, and they have not spoken

08.21.2026
Rolls-Royce SMR reactor

A 470-megawatt British reactor is going next to Sweden’s Ringhals plant, three of them, 1,500 megawatts, the first new nuclear since 1985 — about 6 percent of everything the country uses, designed to run more than 60 years, same physics the operators next door have run for four decades

08.21.2026
Neros Archer FPV drone

US Marines just flew six $2,000 FPV attack drones into mock barracks in Pocheon, South Korea, all six hit, 15 miles south of the North Korean border — the first live-fire of its kind on the peninsula, and China tightened drone exports to America the same day

08.20.2026
uada floating solar panels ducks

A 70-kilowatt American solar array is floating on a rice irrigation reservoir in Stuttgart, Arkansas, 96 panels covering 0.1 acre of a 40-acre pond — and the first reviewers will be ducks, because this town winters more mallards than anywhere else on Earth

08.20.2026
Earth Mount Solar Fresno

A 1.7-megawatt American solar array is sitting flat on the ground at a Fresno water plant with no racking steel, five months in, 862 megawatt-hours at 101 percent of its model — and that does not mean flat beats tilt, it means the city could afford to build it

08.20.2026
USS Massachusetts SSN-798 submarine

A 7,800-ton American attack submarine just skipped the dry-dock period every new warship gets, sending USS Massachusetts straight onto the tasking board nine months after delivery — the Virginia before her spent nearly two years in that yard, and this one gets none

08.20.2026
Casper Wind Farm Wyoming

America is pulling the blades off an 11-turbine Chevron wind farm in Casper this week, a 2009 project that barely ever ran, and nobody will say where the 120-foot blades are going — Casper buried 1,124 of them then stopped, while Missouri has shredded more than 7,000

08.20.2026
deep fission nuclear reactor

America is drilling a mile-deep, 40-inch hole in Kansas granite to lower a working nuclear reactor into it, using a mile of water as the pressure vessel and the rock as the containment dome — 5 megawatts by late 2027, and they want the hole 60 inches wide so it takes nine assemblies

08.20.2026
sunfarming hydroponic lettuce

Germany is testing lettuce with no soil under solar panels, hydroponic beds beneath Agri-PV arrays on land the law still has to classify as a farm — month 18 of a three-year project, not a launch, and nobody has said how a crop that never touches dirt clears the 66 percent yield rule

08.20.2026
Lily tunnel boring machine Knutsford

A 44-ton English tunnel borer named Lily just broke through under Knutsford after digging half a mile 66 feet down, a 6.5-foot sewer that can hold 1.45 million gallons of stormwater — and the high street never closed, because the machine went under the town instead of through it

08.20.2026
EvoLogics Quadroin AUV drone

A 55-pound German drone shaped like a penguin goes on display in Denmark this week, a 44-inch machine that hits 10 knots because its body has 28 times less drag than a pipe — and it flags objects on the seafloor with onboard AI before it even surfaces

08.19.2026
Wesleyville OPG boreholes reactors

Canada is punching 40 boreholes into a 1,300-acre Lake Ontario field that has waited 50 years since an oil plant there never generated a watt, to see if the rock can carry 10,000 megawatts of reactors — enough for 10 million homes, and no reactor has been chosen

08.19.2026
méduses Gravelines centrale nucléaire

France just lost 3.2 gigawatts at Western Europe’s largest nuclear plant after several dozen tons of jellyfish clogged the seawater filters at Gravelines — the same plant, on the same August night as last year, and they went through the fishing boats EDF hired to stop them

08.19.2026
North Sea Farm 1 seaweed harvest

A Dutch crew threaded a boat between 139 spinning wind turbines off The Hague and pulled up the first commercial-scale seaweed crop ever grown inside a working wind farm — four nets of sugar kelp, 11 miles out, in water the towers were already fencing off

08.19.2026
Vattenfall Tützpatz Agri-PV

Germany stood 146,000 solar panels across 230 acres in Tützpatz, set the rows so 15,000 hens and a four-crop rotation can work underneath, and built the 76-megawatt park without a cent of subsidy — because the rules say it is not a farm unless the land still delivers 66 percent of its old yield

08.19.2026
DEME Spartacus cutter suction dredger

A 538-foot Belgian ship that turns five this month is the strongest cutter dredger on Earth, a 59,250-horsepower machine with a 2,550-ton cutting arm that chews solid rock off the seabed so ports can go deeper without dynamite — including 1.7 million cubic meters of Portuguese granite in six months

08.19.2026
ROMULUS 151 Breaux Brothers drone

America’s biggest shipbuilder is welding a 151-foot aluminum drone ship in a Louisiana crew-boat yard, a no-crew mothership that drops underwater drones over the side — the Navy picked it as one of seven MUSV designs, and four more hulls are already being built before the first one floats

08.19.2026
Polihali Transfer Tunnel TBM

A 1,000-foot tunnel borer longer than the Titanic entered a Lesotho mountain backward, crawled 1.484 kilometers down an access tunnel, turned around in the dark and started cutting toward a second machine — a 24-mile water tunnel under the Maluti that will move water by gravity alone, with no pumps

08.19.2026
disneyland solar panels

While 82,000 solar panels now shade 11,200 cars at Disneyland Paris, the 36 gigawatt-hours those canopies make each year do not run Space Mountain — the Swiss builder sold the entire output, and the park never self-consumes a kilowatt-hour

08.19.2026
Amdo molten salt tower heliostats

China just stood 15,927 garage-sized mirrors at 15,256 feet on the Tibetan plateau, higher than Mount Whitney, aiming them at a molten-salt tower that stores heat at 1,040°F — the same technology that bankrupted Crescent Dunes twice, built here for less than a third of the money

08.18.2026
He Dreiht Vestas V236 installation

Germany just stood all 64 turbines at a North Sea farm called He Dreiht — Low German for “It Spins” — each a 774-foot Danish Vestas with a blade 19 feet longer than an NFL field, the first commercial-scale V236s on Earth, 960 megawatts and no state subsidy

08.18.2026
Robbins TBM Hiroshima Futabayama

An American 2,650-ton tunnel borer with a 44.8-foot face just finished the hardest 0.9 miles under Hiroshima, the first foreign slurry machine Japan ever let cut hard rock, after a six-month stop over one-tenth of a millimeter of ground movement — the thickness of a sheet of paper

08.18.2026
AimLock Dune SOF Week

America just showed a 660-pound remote turret that bolts onto the truck you already have, spots a small drone and points a 30mm cannon 1.2 miles of sky at it, after fiber-optic quadcopters made a generation of jammers look like very expensive radios — and a person still has to approve the shot

08.18.2026
Phnxx portable solar container

An Australian dairy farmer just unfolded 105 kilowatts of solar out of shipping containers on rails, like an accordion, with a 241-kilowatt-hour battery sitting beside 240 cows that milk twice a day in the dark — and the whole farm can fold the array up and drive it somewhere else

08.18.2026
Liquid Robotics Wave Glider SV6

Japan is taking 20 American wave-powered drones through a $25 million US Air Force deal — 18-foot surfboard machines that stay at sea for a year on swell and sun, with no engine and no fuel tank — to help figure out where things that fall over water actually land

08.18.2026
WIPP disposal panel salt

America just sent a remote-controlled miner 2,150 feet under New Mexico to cut the first new nuclear-waste panel in a decade, a machine that tears out 10 tons of salt a minute so the rock can later squeeze the rooms shut at 2 to 4 inches a year with no canister at all

08.18.2026
floating solar Singapore barnacles

Singapore bolted 13,312 solar panels and more than 30,000 floats into the Straits of Johor after a 2020 wave-tank test that named barnacles out loud, and five years on the array still carries its original rating while nobody has published what the crustaceans cost across a 25-year life

08.18.2026
North Vector Dynamics CM-70

A 6.6-pound Canadian missile the length of a baseball bat chases a laser dot somebody on the ground is holding on the drone, blows its fragments straight ahead instead of sideways, and the man holding that dot gets twenty-five seconds

08.18.2026
Photovoltaik Lieberose Truppenübungsplatz

700,000 solar panels have been sitting on the largest Soviet firing range in Germany since 2009, put there by a developer whose rent paid to have the shells hauled out first, and the army has now frozen those handovers to take some of the ground back

08.18.2026
Rondo Energy heat battery Kern County

A four-story American building in Kern County is a 100-megawatt-hour stack of toaster-wire and blast-furnace brick that has been making high-pressure steam every night for a year on sunshine alone, heating past 1,832°F, and the customer that owns it pumps crude oil

08.17.2026
ITER sector module lift July 2026

ITER just lowered a 1,100-ton sector of its fusion reactor — two and a half jumbo airliners hanging from four hooks — into a 30-meter pit in southern France almost six months early, the sixth of nine wedges and two-thirds of the machine now standing in the ground

08.17.2026
USGS Gemini Solar tortoise

America just bolted 1.8 million solar panels onto 7,100 acres of Mojave and raised the fences eight inches off the dirt, and the threatened tortoises the project was supposed to kill have walked back in and parked themselves under the glass

08.17.2026
Kyocera Solar golf course

Japan just bolted 356,928 solar panels onto a golf course that was zoned in the bubble years and abandoned before anyone ever teed off, across a footprint the size of Monaco, on ground somebody else graded and drained thirty years ago

08.17.2026
Herrenknecht Mixshield Panama Metro Line 3

A 44-foot German machine named Panama spent 17 months boring the first tunnel ever to pass under the Panama Canal, kept every ship moving above her the whole time, and is now down to her final few hundred meters before the station where she gets taken apart

08.17.2026
SeaCat MK1 Atlas Elektronik

Germany is hanging a 324-millimeter drone the size of a spare torpedo off its non-magnetic minesweepers, a machine that swims at walking pace for a full day, maps the seabed 600 meters down and comes home while its 43-kilogram sister rams the mine and dies

08.17.2026
schwimmende Solaranlage Cottbus solar panels

Germany flooded the pit that gave up 83 million tons of lignite into its largest artificial lake, pinned 51,000 solar modules to the old mine floor with 49-foot steel tubes, and a mid-December windstorm shredded the array’s edge before it ever sent power ashore

08.17.2026
newcleo nuclear reactor

A 155-ton reactor vessel near Bologna runs on molten lead with electric heaters standing in for uranium, and the French firm that built it just told US regulators it wants to make plutonium fuel in America, where the last plant that tried is a half-built shell

08.17.2026
Saab AUV62-MR drone

A 661-pound Swedish drone fires out of a submarine’s torpedo tube, crawls across the Baltic floor at 3 knots, picks up a second one that has been sitting there waiting and tows it back in through the same hole

08.16.2026
ozz-5 uuv mitsubishi

A 13-foot yellow Japanese drone spent two weeks hunting mines in a northern bay alongside an American ship with a wooden hull, because the frigate that carries the drone is made of steel and steel is what a magnetic mine listens for

08.16.2026
IJmuiden pumping station pump installation

Two 120-ton pumps the height of a three-story building each move an Olympic pool of water over the Dutch sea defenses every 50 seconds, and the country has just decided they are not big enough any more

08.16.2026
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