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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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Knifefish UUV Navy

A 2,000-pound American drone named after a fish swims into the mines Iran laid in the Strait of Hormuz for 16 hours at a time, comes up nose-first so nobody has to go in the water after it, and hands over a map of what is buried down there

08.16.2026
Flocean One subsea desalination Mongstad

A 22-ton pod sitting 1,640 feet down off Norway lets the ocean do the squeezing that a coastal plant builds a whole pump hall for, pulls a million liters of drinking water a day off the seabed, and the only wobble on its sensors is the tide

08.16.2026
Unterweser steam generator removal Mammoet

Four 330-ton German steam generators came out of a dead reactor building whole, sailed to a Swedish smelter as a single 1,200-ton shipment, and about 95% of that steel will leave the country as ordinary ingots

08.16.2026
Caroline TBM Grain to Tilbury

A 464-ton German machine named Caroline is grinding through chalk 135 feet under the Thames, and scattered through that chalk are flint nodules harder than the concrete rings she bolts up behind herself, some of them at 145,000 psi

08.16.2026
Over Easy Solar Tromsø

Norway stood 6,400 solar panels dead upright on the roof of an Arctic cold store, loose on the membrane with nothing holding them but friction, because a flat panel under a few centimetres of snow produces nothing at all

08.16.2026
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant aerial

Japan switched one reactor back on at the biggest nuclear station ever built after fourteen years dark, and three weeks later the utility that owns it started switching off solar farms for the first time, up to 3,290 megawatts on a single afternoon

08.15.2026
Global Mark sea trident drone

A 10-ton Ukrainian drone submarine that is wider than it is tall sat on a stand in Paris built partly to hunt other underwater drones, and six weeks later the US Coast Guard asked American industry for anything that could kill one

08.15.2026
EolMed BW Ideol floater tow

Three steel squares 45 meters a side left a French port under tow with a 10-megawatt turbine already bolted on each one, rode out a Gulf of Lion winter with nothing damping them but the seawater trapped in their own bellies, and have run flat out since May

08.15.2026
Voltiris Meier Gemüse greenhouse

A Swiss tomato grower hung 1,736 solar modules inside his greenhouse directly over the rows, and they take only the infrared the plants never use, so the crop came out 1 percent up and the pickers started working under them because it was cooler

08.15.2026
Barangaroo TBM Birchgrove Oval machine

A 4,350-ton boring machine that bends at the waist launched 147 feet under a suburban cricket ground in Sydney this week, and it changes its own worn cutting teeth without sending anyone into the head

08.15.2026
Haiyou Anlan CNOOC floating wind

A 7,800-ton floating turbine standing more than 1,000 feet tall started feeding a Chinese oilfield this month down a 2.7-mile cable, and the company running it is the same one that walked away from buying Scottish floating wind for its North Sea rig

08.15.2026
New Terminal One JFK solar roof

A terminal being finished at JFK has 13,000 solar panels across six and a half football fields of its own roof, and not one of them would keep a light on in a blackout at 2am, because what carries the building in the dark is 3.84 megawatts of fuel cells burning gas

08.15.2026
Panama Canal Gatun Lake

Every ship through the Panama Canal sends about 50 million gallons of fresh water out to sea, the lake meant to replace that loss costs $1.6 billion and will not hold a drop before 2031, and the canal has already cut how deep ships can sit five times this year

08.15.2026
Idemitsu kosan agrivoltaic rice

Japan hung 2 megawatts of solar panels 12.5 feet over a rice paddy and then spent the whole growing season turning them edge-on so they would stop shading the crop, and the back of the glass lives off the light bouncing up from the water

08.14.2026
Liebherr R 9400 E Fortescue cable

A 345-ton German excavator that shoves into an iron ore face with 347,000 pounds of force now drags a mile of high-voltage cable behind it instead of a V12, and it has stopped drinking a million liters of diesel a year in a corner of the Pilbara where the only power network is the one the mine built itself

08.14.2026
Vatn Systems Skelmir S12

A 20-foot American drone built to a 12.75-inch torpedo diameter so it drops out of gear navies already own, rated to cross 80 miles of the Taiwan Strait and swim back, comes off a Rhode Island line built for 2,000 a year, and Taiwan wants to assemble them on the island

08.14.2026
RheEnergise Hydro Devon turbine

A British company laid three fiberglass pipes 200 feet long up a Devon hillside, filled them with 343,000 gallons of a fluid dense enough to float concrete and dropped it back through a turbine it had to build from scratch, because water turbines cannot handle it

08.14.2026
IdentiFlight tower wind farm

A Wyoming wind farm whose owner pleaded guilty over dead eagles put up 47 camera towers that pick a bird out half a mile away and stop one turbine at a time, and the 82 percent drop everyone quotes came back at 50 when the authors of the counting software ran the numbers themselves

08.14.2026
anduril dive ld drone

A three-ton American drone submarine survives 19,700 feet by letting the sea straight through it, stays down ten days at a time, and its whole outer shell prints in under two days, which is why a factory can turn out 200 of them a year

08.14.2026
Casa Blanca Canal solar Gila River

Arizona bolted 2,556 solar panels over half a mile of irrigation canal on steel trusses that never touch the water, the first in the country to do it, and it costs about twice what putting the same panels on the ground would

08.14.2026
Zelda TBM Melbourne oversize load

Two 4,400-ton machines finished digging under Melbourne last month after two years and 2.8 million tons of rock, and nobody drives through the hole until 2028, because 770,000 tons of concrete deck and 2,000 miles of cable still have to go in

08.14.2026
elsa boring machine elbe herrenketch

A 700-ton German machine named Elsa is 623 feet long and only 16 feet across, crawled 3.2 miles under the Elbe with cargo ships passing overhead and blasted 2,200 gallons of slurry a minute through the middle of her own cutterhead to stop the clay sticking

08.13.2026
solar farm texas

A 250-megawatt solar field outside Osceola covers up to 40% of the mill next door that rolls 142,000 tons of steel coil, the coils go 20 miles up the road to be formed into 400,000 piles, each stamped with the county it came from, and they go back in the ground to hold up more panels

08.13.2026
Nauticus Robotics' Aquanaut Mark 2 drone

A 9,260-pound American drone swims out on its own battery, grips with 1,000 pounds of force and swaps its own tools out of a compartment in its nose, and nobody drives the arms because radio does not work down there

08.13.2026
Gavins Point Dam mussels

An 88,000-pound steel door came out of a Missouri River dam weighing 113,000, and the extra 25,000 pounds was a zebra mussel that tops out at 1.9 inches, had a generator offline twice a month by 2019, and can ride to the next reservoir on a single boat

08.13.2026
Trojan ISFSI Oregon

America filled a 1,020-ton reactor with concrete foam, wrapped it in blue plastic and pushed it 270 miles up the Columbia to a pit in the desert, and 27 years later the fuel it ran on is still sitting on the riverbank in 34 casks

08.13.2026
Snowy Hydro TBM Monica

A German machine named Monica landed in the Snowy Mountains as 5,257 tons of freight, her cutterhead cut into five pieces because no road takes 39 feet whole, her 207-ton main drive crawling out of port on 152 wheels, and the one thing meant to save her is a shield built deliberately short

08.13.2026
hadalus drone

A 34-foot drone submarine with no pressure hull lets seawater run straight through its carbon fiber skeleton, covers 2,300 miles on one load, fired something out of itself while submerged on a Navy range and went from sketch to water in 18 months, and nobody will say what came out

08.13.2026
Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility squirrel

A ground squirrel that weighs less than a burrito and sleeps eight months a year keeps every truck at an Oregon plant powering 100,000 homes down to 20 mph, fences off 785 feet around each colony, and the state tells the operator to armor the cables because it chews

08.12.2026
MARTAC Devil Ray T38

A 38-foot carbon fiber catamaran with nobody aboard fired six loitering munitions off its own deck at targets in the Arabian Gulf while the man calling the shots sat in Bahrain, ran 192 hours off California with no chase boat behind it, and has never landed a drone back on

08.12.2026
AFDM 15 Austal USA launch

An Alabama yard just launched a 694-foot steel box that works by sinking on purpose, flooding its own tanks until a destroyer can float over the deck and then lifting 18,000 tons clear of the water, and it lifts what a 1943 dock lifted

08.12.2026
iris machine hartford mdc

A German machine named Iris chewed 900,000 tons of rock out from 200 feet under Hartford and left a tank holding 41.5 million gallons, and it has sat empty for four and a half years because the hole got finished and the pumps did not

08.12.2026
Loch Ness Foyers hydro

Two 900-tonne machines have spent fifty years shoving 160 tonnes of Loch Ness uphill every second without anyone calling the loch an industrial site, and three more schemes now want the same water

08.12.2026
Charybdis WTIV Dominion

A 23,163-ton ship built in Texas drops four legs to the seabed 27 miles off Virginia Beach, jacks its own hull out of the water and stacks a wind turbine every two days with a crane wrapped around one of its legs, and nobody has ordered a second

08.12.2026
sunnyside houston solar farm

A 52-megawatt solar farm on 240 acres of Houston landfill has to hold 140-mph Gulf winds down with concrete alone, because a driven pile would puncture the cap keeping the dump sealed, and the federal credit paying for it expires at the end of 2027

08.12.2026
Saildrone Voyager Navy 4th Fleet

A 33-foot drone sailboat doing 5 knots with nobody aboard picked out a smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, stayed on it and handed the track to the Navy, and the ship that turned up took $81 million of cocaine off it

08.12.2026
turkey point reactor crocodiles

A nuclear plant south of Miami cut 168 miles of ditches into the marl to get rid of its waste heat, and the dirt it piled up between them is now the densest American crocodile nursery in the country, with 606 hatchlings counted last season

08.11.2026
supsi lugano solar panels

288 solar panels went onto a Swiss roof and not one of them has ever been replaced, while the inverter underneath has been swapped five times, and 48 of the originals are still feeding the grid today

08.11.2026
Exail K-Ster C drone

A 39-foot Belgian drone boat hauls three underwater robots out to the search box, drops them in and relays what they find back to a warship that never leaves the safe side, and there is still a person sitting aboard it because the launch system is not automatic yet

08.11.2026
Inouye Solar Telescope Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

A 3.6-ton mirror three inches thick sits on a Maui volcano collecting sunlight, and keeping it from cooking itself takes seven miles of coolant pipe, thirteen separate temperatures and about a swimming pool of ice made fresh every night

08.11.2026
Superconducting Super Collider tunnel interior

Europe has picked a 90.7-kilometer ring for the machine that follows the Large Hadron Collider, and the last country that tried building something that size sank 17 shafts under Texas, bored 14 miles of tunnel and then let the groundwater have it

08.11.2026
HRBT expansion TBM Mary

A 4,700-ton German machine named Mary finished her first tunnel under Hampton Roads pointing the wrong way, so crews slid her 2,500-ton cutterhead around on nitrogen skates at the bottom of a 65-foot pit, and the turn alone took six months

08.11.2026
Heavy Artillery Test System Yuma

An American gun left standing in the Arizona desert after Congress killed the program around it took a live hypersonic warhead and a propelling charge, threw them down the range, and the Army will not say how fast the thing was going

08.11.2026
DEEP Vanguard habitat Florida

A 35-foot steel tube with bunk beds, a shower and a hole in the floor is sitting 56 feet under the Florida Keys, and Florida researchers have until Friday to commit in writing to living in it, before anyone has been cleared to sleep in it at all

08.11.2026
Emrgy turbines South Boulder Canal

Four turbines sit in a Denver irrigation canal, dropped in cassette-style so nobody ever has to shut the water off to the farms downstream, and each one makes about what three home EV chargers pull, on a canal network 11,800 miles long

08.10.2026
Bedrock Ocean AUV

A 132-pound American drone two people can lift off a tailgate went into the North Sea instead of a crewed survey ship and picked out everything down to a one-meter cube on the bottom, and its own maker says do not use it below 20 meters of seabed

08.10.2026
FPL Babcock Ranch solar

A Florida town with 687,000 solar panels next to it kept its lights on through a Category 4 hurricane that cut power to 90% of the county, and its own utility says the solar had nothing to do with it

08.10.2026
Herrenknecht Schwanau cutterhead factory

Two German machines will grind two miles under the rowhouses of West Baltimore, 150 feet below the street, and before either can start somebody has to buy the right to tunnel under 500 of those houses one at a time

08.10.2026
TasPorts Macquarie Wharf 6

Australia is pulling 12,900 tonnes of concrete and steel out of the River Derwent with a 280-tonne crawler crane and barges underneath to catch what falls, and the ship it is doing it for still sails 419 miles to refuel

08.10.2026
deep fision nuclear reactor

An American startup wants to lower a 15-megawatt reactor a mile down a hole outside a Kansas town of 9,600 people, with the water above it doing the job of a containment dome, and the route it is on lets the government skip the environmental impact statement

08.10.2026
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