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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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Saronic Marauder

Two American startups just bolted a Mach 5 hypersonic missile onto a 180-foot drone ship with nobody aboard, the kind of weapon that normally rides a billion-dollar destroyer, and they plan to fire it at sea in 2027

06.20.2026
wind turbines offshore

Scientists strapped GPS trackers to seals in the North Sea expecting them to flee the wind farms, but the animals were hunting along the turbines instead, swimming the rows so precisely you could map every foundation from a single seal’s trail

06.20.2026
jang bogo station green hydrogen

Hyundai just signed on to run South Korea’s Antarctic bases on green hydrogen instead of diesel, banking summer sunlight as hydrogen to burn through a winter night that lasts months, with no cable and no pipeline anywhere

06.19.2026
Antora Energy thermal battery

An ethanol plant in South Dakota just switched on what its builders call a giant toaster, more than 200 boxes of solid carbon heated to 2,400 degrees until they glow hotter than lava, banking days of cheap wind power as heat

06.19.2026
mingyan ocean x wind turbine

The world’s first typhoon-proof floating wind turbine is a tower as tall as a 70-story building off the coast of China, carrying two spinning rotors on one V-shaped frame, and it swung around to take a super typhoon head-on and never stopped turning

06.19.2026
Fincanteri deep drone

Italy just put an autonomous underwater drone in the water built to patrol seabed cables and pipelines, part of a new system that can detect an intruder from up to 100 kilometers away

06.19.2026
sweden buoy

A Swedish wave-power buoy off Portugal survived 61-foot Atlantic storm waves by going limp instead of fighting them, and it banks the energy it harvests the way a heart stores and releases blood on every beat

06.19.2026
lockheed martin reactor moon

America just committed to landing a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, a 100-kilowatt machine that splits uranium to keep a base powered through a two-week night solar panels can’t survive

06.19.2026
tvl lithium britain

Britain just moved to build Europe’s first lithium refinery independent of China, enough battery-grade lithium a year for more than half a million electric cars, on the bones of a century-old chemical complex near Hull

06.19.2026
Rasa klaipeda vessel green hydrogen

Lithuania just launched the world’s first commercial tanker with zero diesel on board, a 42-meter ship running on green hydrogen made right on the dock, and its job is collecting the sewage and sludge from other ships

06.19.2026
china r6000 drone

China just put a 6-ton autonomous tiltrotor drone into full free-flight testing, a uncrewed aircraft that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a fixed-wing plane

06.19.2026
aces delta chevron

America is now banking its spring solar surplus as hydrogen gas in underground salt caverns in Utah, two caves holding more energy than every grid battery in the country combined, to burn months later in summer

06.18.2026
Kongsberg HUGIN Endurance AUV

A Norwegian drone submarine just spent 15 days alone on the seabed without surfacing once, mapping a stretch of ocean floor bigger than New York City where Europe’s cables keep getting cut

06.18.2026
NEOM Green Hydrogen plant

To split seawater into hydrogen, Saudi Arabia is wiring up a solar farm the size of Manhattan and 257 wind turbines in the middle of the desert, the biggest green hydrogen plant ever built, due to make 600 tons a day

06.18.2026
bill gates nuclear reactor liquid sodium

Bill Gates just started building the first new kind of American reactor in a decade, cooled by liquid sodium and wired to a molten-salt tank that works like a giant battery, letting it jump from 345 to 500 megawatts when the grid screams for power

06.18.2026
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park

German scientists just found that a solar farm bigger than 20 square kilometers could start brewing its own rain over the desert, and they’re now hauling laser equipment into the UAE to prove it

06.18.2026
form energy batteries

A West Virginia steel town forged the iron that built mid-century America for a century before the mills shut and got torn down, and now it’s making batteries that store power by rusting iron 100 hours at a time to keep a Google data center alive

06.18.2026
HG14 solar farm

China just switched on the world’s first gigawatt solar farm built in the open sea, nearly 3,000 steel platforms bolted to the seabed five miles offshore, with fish being farmed underneath

06.18.2026
american plant jet fuel

An American plant just opened that pulls CO2 out of the air, runs it through water and hydropower, and turns it into real jet fuel that Alaska Airlines is already flying

06.18.2026
Kronos Mini Arquimea

Spain just unveiled a two-meter drone that fires from a torpedo tube, skims the surface on a hydrofoil at 20 knots, then dives underwater to punch a hole below a ship’s waterline

06.18.2026
Ivanpah solar panels

While America’s mirror-and-tower plants struggle to make power after dark, China just fired up the world’s first dual-tower version, storing the sun as molten heat to run long into the night

06.17.2026
bluewhale drone

Germany now has an underwater drone the size of a submarine that hunts other subs and combs the Baltic floor for mines for weeks at a time, with nobody inside it, on the seabed where the cables keep getting cut

06.17.2026
SkySails Power kite

A German company is making electricity with a giant kite that flies half a kilometer up, higher than any wind turbine, where the wind is stronger and never stops, held by nothing but a cable to a winch on the ground

06.17.2026
kairyu ocean turbine airplane

Japan built a 330-ton machine shaped like an airplane that flies underwater without ever going anywhere, anchored to one of the strongest ocean currents on Earth to pull steady power from water that never stops moving, day or night

06.17.2026
fukoka osmotic plant

Japan just switched on Asia’s first osmotic power plant, pulling clean electricity from the gap between fresh water and seawater nearly around the clock — a technology Norway gave up on in 2014

06.17.2026
masdar solar farm

Abu Dhabi just started building a solar farm bigger than 90 square kilometers that could run a full gigawatt straight through the night, and they’re wiring it to the largest battery ever built to prove the sun doesn’t have to stop at dark

06.17.2026
Manta Ray DARPA

China built an underwater drone shaped like a manta ray, its electronics sealed in a hull rated to crush depths near 2,000 meters, and ran it through a mine hunt in near-total darkness, body still, fins rippling

06.17.2026
First mode hydrogen vehicle

The world’s largest hydrogen vehicle is a 290-ton mining truck as tall as a three-story building, and it was meant to wipe diesel out of an entire industry. Four years on it still holds the title, because almost everything else around it collapsed

06.17.2026
marmok a5 buoy

A 160-ton steel cylinder as tall as a 14-story building is floating off the coast of Bilbao, and inside it a column of seawater rises and falls like a giant piston, pushing air through a turbine to power the Spanish grid

06.17.2026
Iver3 submarine drone

A U.S. Navy underwater drone just spent a week patrolling the Baltic seabed where the cables keep getting severed, mapping more than a dozen miles per charge and flagging anything that moved since yesterday

06.17.2026
nickel sudbury

Canada has $10 billion in nickel sitting in old mining waste, metal already dug up once and thrown away. Nobody could afford to get it back, so a research group is feeding 150 years of that garbage to a tank of bacteria instead

06.16.2026
rubin auv drone

Russia’s ballistic-missile submarine bureau is building a 5.5-ton underwater drone to drop payloads on the seabed, officially for science. The same modular bay rated for sensors is rated for explosives, and the Baltic’s cables keep getting cut

06.16.2026
Larvotto mine australian

Most people know antimony as the stuff that keeps couches from catching fire. The Pentagon knows it as what goes in armor-piercing rounds, and China controls it, so a 168-year-old mine in rural Australia is coming back to life

06.16.2026
canada g7 mine graphite

China mines nearly 80% of the world’s graphite, the one material every EV anode needs and no battery does without. Canada just started building the G7’s largest graphite mine to break that grip, and it runs on hydropower, not diesel

06.16.2026
scotland maygen turbine

Most things built at sea get hammered into the seabed. Scotland’s tidal turbines just sit on 1,450 tons of concrete holding them down by weight alone, in 10-knot tides, and one has run seven years without a single repair

06.16.2026
minesto kite

A Swedish company built a kite that needs no wind, no string, and no sky: it flies underwater on a steel tether, weighs 28 tons, and just spent 10 months swooping in figure eights to feed the grid in the Faroe Islands

06.16.2026
Magura V5 drone

A Ukrainian boat with no crew just launched a drone straight off the water and shot a Russian Shahed out of the sky, the first time anyone has killed an attack drone this way, opening air defense from the sea

06.16.2026
Lithium

Scientists just turned ordinary metal into a black panel that makes seawater drinkable using nothing but sunlight, no brine, no pumps, no membranes, and the dry salt left behind gave up half its lithium

06.16.2026
Orbital turbine

Canada just cleared the world’s most powerful floating tidal turbine for the Bay of Fundy, a 680-ton machine that drops two rotors into the fastest tides on Earth and tows itself home before the current can wreck it

06.15.2026
china S2000 airship

While the tallest wind turbines reach about 600 feet, a Chinese airship carried 12 turbines more than ten times higher, to 6,560 feet, and pushed the electricity down a single cable to the grid

06.15.2026
saildrone drone california

A California company just unveiled a 170-foot drone built like a sailboat to hunt submarines by staying silent: under sail it makes almost no noise for a sub to hear, and each one costs $40 million against a destroyer’s billions

06.15.2026
newcleo nuclear reactor

A 155-ton reactor in Italy running on molten lead, with electric heaters faking the uranium, is about to make real electricity with zero nuclear fuel inside, a full-size test of the metal before any fuel goes in

06.15.2026
mit concrete

MIT built a load-bearing concrete arch that stores electricity and lights an LED, and the LED gets brighter as you stack more weight on it, a wall that tells you how much it’s carrying by how brightly it glows

06.15.2026
Boeing submarine

China is testing underwater drones the size of submarines, 148 feet long with an estimated range of 10,000 miles, the largest ever built, and U.S. analysts say they could one day reach the West Coast

06.15.2026
belgium island

Belgium just built 23 concrete boxes the size of apartment buildings, floated them out to sea, and is sinking them in a ring to make solid ground where there’s nothing but open North Sea water

06.15.2026
dogger bank wind farm

Britain just raised the last turbine on the first phase of the world’s biggest wind farm, 95 machines each as tall as Rockefeller Center, 80 miles out in the North Sea, while five nearly-finished U.S. projects sit frozen

06.15.2026
China underground aircraft carrier boring machine

China just started drilling with a 500-ton machine it calls an “underground aircraft carrier,” boring a vertical shaft a kilometer deep, and it cracked the hardest problem by copying a pencil sharpener

06.14.2026
OHISAMA satellite sunlight

Japan just built a washing-machine-sized satellite that makes electricity from sunlight in orbit and beams it down to Earth as microwaves, the part 50 years of space solar never managed to pull off

06.14.2026
SWCS SEAL delivery vehicle dvidshub drone

Robot wingmen already escort fighter pilots and lead warships through Hormuz. The Navy’s next move is the hardest one: an underwater drone swimming point for the mini-subs that smuggle SEALs to shore

06.14.2026
Kubuqi Desert solar panels

China is building a 250-mile “great wall” of solar panels along a desert, wide enough to see from space, and one piece is shaped like a galloping horse the size of a small city, a Guinness record visible from orbit

06.14.2026
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