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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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saab underwater drone double eagle

A 1,609-pound underwater drone goes out over the Baltic floor with no cable on it, hunting mines laid in two world wars, and the magnets in its thrusters are matched to each other so it does not set off the fuze on the thing it is looking at

08.10.2026
CSU Spur green roof saffron

A Colorado lab bolted 115 solar panels over a Denver rooftop and grew saffron underneath, and the plots in the shade threw twice the flowers of the ones in the open, because that glass passes 40% of the light

08.10.2026
vatican solar panels

The Vatican put 2,400 solar panels on an audience hall roof and now wants to cover a field ten times the size of the whole country, on foreign soil, in between the antennas still beaming shortwave radio at three continents

08.09.2026
nuclear battery zeno power drones

America is building seabed batteries that charge drone submarines and keep throwing off heat for 28.8 years without a cable or a support ship, fuelled by a generator the Energy Department has had in a store at Oak Ridge

08.09.2026
machine chessie chesapeake

A German machine named Chessie was 700 feet under the Chesapeake when pieces of an English ship’s anchor started coming back on the conveyor, and crews had to swap 389 cutting tools by hand at the face, 150 pounds each, under the floor of the bay

08.09.2026
Vogtle CA20 module lift

A crane set a 2.2-million-pound module five storeys tall into a Georgia reactor in a single lift, and America is now planning as many as 91 more of those reactors, held up not by cranes or concrete but by the few people qualified to sign the paperwork

08.09.2026
drone britain Oceanus 17

A 56-foot drone boat gets named in Plymouth on Wednesday with a 20-foot shipping-container slot cut into the middle of it, rated to four tonnes and wired with 30 kilowatts of its own power, and nobody will say what goes in the hole

08.09.2026
West Somerset Lagoon Marks Barfield

A 14-mile wall of 206 concrete boxes would be cast in dock, towed into the Bristol Channel and sunk onto the seabed to trap 30 square miles of sea behind 125 turbines, and four times a day the whole thing would stop generating

08.09.2026
Diamond Solar Project

Oregon approved 406,000 solar panels on 1,560 acres of forest land and made the developer leave a 600-foot gap in the middle with no fence and no panels in it so deer and elk can still reach their water, and nobody has ever built one to find out if it works

08.09.2026
american drone airjet

One of America’s two new combat drones was built to play the enemy in training so real jets would not have to, and it has now fired an AIM-120 over the Mojave at a target that existed only in software

08.09.2026
Nora tunnel boring machine Hudson

A 1,350-ton machine named Nora arrived in 22 pieces, took four months to bolt together and bored 2.5 miles under the Hudson to carry half of New York’s drinking water around a leaking crack, and the tunnel she cut has never held a drop

08.08.2026
Bilfinger Fraunhofer Asse Bergemaschine

A German crew built a remote-controlled excavator to pull 126,000 corroding drums of nuclear waste out of a collapsing salt mine, and the machine now sits on the surface until 2039, because the shaft big enough to lower it down has not been dug yet

08.08.2026
USV Pioneer acua ocean drone

A 46-foot drone boat sat 16 miles off Plymouth for more than 100 hours with nobody touching it, picked up a low-power distress beacon 13.7 miles away and pinned it to within 65 feet, and it did all of it with the hydrogen taken out and a diesel put in

08.08.2026
Anna Creek Station solar

The largest working cattle station on Earth runs its headquarters on 49 kilowatts of solar panels, not quite five Australian suburban roofs, on a property bigger than Connecticut, and forgetting one part on the truck costs an 1,120-mile round trip to Adelaide

08.08.2026
Mersey Tidal Power barrage visualisation

A wall across a working shipping lane with 28 turbines and navigation locks in it would hold back a 33-foot tide, run for 120 years and beat every tidal plant on earth, and it still has not been told where in the estuary to stand

08.08.2026
drone tenebris palantir hyundai

While seven American drone warships finish Navy sea trials this October, the 14-ton boat promised to hold 50 knots through 20-foot seas on Palantir software has yet to touch the water, and its own deadline runs out in five months

08.08.2026
Far Niente solar napa

California floated 1,000 solar panels out over a winery’s irrigation pond because the only flat ground it had left was planted with cabernet, and before a single one could be switched on the winery had to rip out its own transformer and fit a bigger one

08.08.2026
Gotthard Paulina tunnel boring machine

A 2,118-ton German machine named Paulina had gone 192 meters under the Swiss Alps when 2,000 cubic meters of rock came down around her, and while she sat there for 329 days her twin at the other end of the mountain was covering up to 32 meters in a single day

08.07.2026
Oak Ridge nuclear fuel triso

America is building its first new nuclear fuel factory in about 50 years, a Tennessee plant designed to turn out 700,000 uranium spheres the size of billiard balls every year — and the graphite core they tumble through starts out in a valley in the French Alps

08.07.2026
Manta Ray DARPA

An American drone crosses 2,700 miles inside five shipping containers, gets bolted together on a dock in two days, swims out by pumping seawater through itself instead of turning a propeller, then anchors to the ocean floor and sleeps there until someone wakes it

08.07.2026
APV-Obstbau Gelsdorf Fraunhofer apple orchard solar

A German apple grower has been ripening fruit 10 to 12 days later than the orchard next door for five years, because the 1,148 solar panels hanging 16 feet over his trees cool the air enough to undo the calendar that warming has been dragging forward on every other farm

08.07.2026
CorPower Ocean C4 buoy Aguçadoura

While America has 20 megawatts of cable buried seven miles off Oregon and berths that are still mostly empty, a 100-ton Swedish buoy off Portugal has been feeding a grid since 2023 and just got the certificate nobody in this industry had ever held

08.07.2026
Skydweller solar aircraft Stennis

A 236-foot American solar drone with a wingspan longer than a 747’s flew eight days over the Gulf with no fuel and nobody aboard, ran a Navy radar the whole time, and then went into the water on the way home because the batteries ran flat before sunrise

08.07.2026
Sun'Agri vineyard solar panels vines France

A French grower planted four hectares of cognac vines under 6,000 solar panels hanging five meters over the rows, and when hail comes the whole array lies flat to shield the fruit, which costs him the geographical indication on every bottle he makes

08.07.2026
Remus drone

A 12.75-inch American drone finds a 21-inch torpedo tube on a submarine in water where nobody can see anything, holds the alignment with four inches of clearance a side, parks itself in a capsule and then reverses back out without turning around

08.07.2026
Over Easy Solar vertical Queens New York

A New York building put a hundred kilowatts of solar panels upright on a green roof and gets about 120,000 kilowatt-hours a year out of them, against 116,000 from a tilted array on the same roof, because the point was never the total and always the shape

08.06.2026
SkyFall Vampire drone Ukraine

A 55-pound drone flies 20 miles out, drops two mortar rounds on two different targets and comes home to be reloaded, with the radio jammed and the GPS denied the whole way, and the Pentagon wants each one to do that 150 times

08.06.2026
Fervo Energy Cape Station drilling rig Utah

An American crew just drilled 19,448 feet into Utah rock at 460 degrees, ran the hole 7,500 feet sideways and finished in 21 days, exactly what its own shallower and cooler well took, because drilling is supposed to get slower the deeper you go

08.06.2026
hugin auv drone

A 6,000-meter Norwegian drone submarine just spent a month reading a volcanic ridge in the Arctic down to five centimeters, passing over 38 million tons of copper that nobody in Norway is allowed to touch until at least 2029

08.06.2026
Orion DEME offshore installation vessel

A 5,000-ton crane just put the first 1,290-ton steel tube into the seabed off Germany, and it is the same machine that came down across its own deck in Rostock at half that rating, in the port now rolling the tubes it installs

08.06.2026
lockheed martin's helios laser system

America just ordered a shipping container holding 500 kilowatts of laser to burn cruise missiles and drone swarms out of the sky, eight times the strongest one the Navy has at sea, and the Army already tried the 300-kilowatt version and cut it to one

08.06.2026
Sono Motors solar bus trailer Munich MVG

Twenty solar panels bolted to a bus trailer in Munich collect 2,000 watts that never touch the drivetrain, run the heating and the air conditioning instead, and save about 660 gallons of diesel a year the engine used to burn making its own electricity

08.06.2026
Wendelstein 7-X coils Greifswald

A German fusion machine runs on 50 superconducting coils chilled to 270 degrees below zero, each one a shape no person could have drawn and only a supercomputer could work out, and it held a plasma for 43 seconds before its own institute walked the record back

08.06.2026
RM 900 S ballast cleaner Spitzke

A 380-ton German machine 335 feet long threads a steel chain under a live railway, drags the stone out from beneath the crossties like a chainsaw laid flat, washes it and drops it back in behind itself, and never takes the rails apart

08.05.2026
Raytheon Barracuda mine neutralization vehicle

While Iran is estimated to hold as many as 6,000 sea mines, the American answer is a 26-pound drone fired from a sonobuoy tube that swims out on four water jets, holds position over the mine, films it for an operator far away and dies destroying it

08.05.2026
Hallertau hop yard solar panels agrivoltaic

A Bavarian farmer put solar panels on top of the poles already holding up his hops, 23 feet over the field, and the first version made excellent electricity and fewer cones, because the plants reached the glass and went bushy instead of setting the part brewers pay for

08.05.2026
ESS target wheel tungsten Lund

A five-ton steel wheel packed with about 7,000 tungsten bricks has been spinning inside a sealed vacuum under Sweden for nearly three years, turning at two thirds the speed of a vinyl record behind 13 feet of steel shielding, and not one proton has ever hit it

08.05.2026
HavocAI's Rampage usv drone

An American drone boat drove itself almost 40 nautical miles across Hawaiian water carrying a 3D-printed spare part, handed it to a Canadian navy oiler and drove home, and nobody was jamming it, spoofing it or shooting at it the whole way

08.05.2026
Loram RGC01 rail grinder UK

An American machine carrying 40 grinding stones and 1,200 horsepower was just cleared to work British rails at 20 mph, hauling up to 29,000 gallons of water for no reason other than to stop its own sparks setting the lineside on fire

08.05.2026
Hornsea 3 monopile installation Wind Ally Cadeler

The 1,840-ton steel tubes going under Britain’s biggest wind farm are arriving from Bilbao and from a Chinese yard that finished its entire share in June, and the factory built on Teesside to make them lost the contract before it rolled a single one

08.05.2026
Broadway Subway tunnel boring machine Elsie Phyllis Vancouver

Two 1,100-ton machines rated for 59 feet a day averaged about half that under Vancouver, took 16 and 18 months against a plan of 12, and the trains they made room for are now running test laps with ballast standing in for passengers

08.05.2026
NASA Langley 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunnel

NASA just opened its first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, a 131-foot building in Virginia with four 14-foot fans and 3,000 horsepower blowing straight up, and the chamber inside it is a foot shorter than the tunnel it replaces

08.04.2026
navy american cruiser canadian submarine

A 9,600-ton American cruiser took rockets, missiles and helicopter fire off Hawaii for the better part of a day, and the thing that finally put her under was a torpedo from the only Canadian submarine still able to sail

08.04.2026
Van Oord Bravenes fallpipe rock installation vessel

A Dutch contractor just dropped 300,000 tons of rock onto 52 offshore wind foundations off the Dutch coast, more than four times the weight of the steel it is protecting, because the water running past each 30-foot pile digs a pit the tide never fills back in

08.04.2026
century aluminum potline

An American aluminum smelter outside Charleston runs carbon-lined steel boxes at 1,780 degrees that never get switched off, because a few hours without current freezes the bath into rock, and feeding them draws 397 megawatts flat, every hour of every day

08.04.2026
IQIP IQ8 hydrohammer

A 700-ton hydrohammer landing more than 7,500 kilojoules a blow, four times what the old range managed, was built to drive steel tubes of 2,300 tons into the seabed, and it has not been swung at a single wind farm yet because the older hammers are still finishing the job

08.04.2026
Nevados All Terrain Tracker sloped terrain

Virginia just gave a gold medal to a 130-megawatt solar farm built on Appalachian foothills with no grading plan at all, 315,000 panels draped over the contours instead of a flattened site, and the same state’s land study shows it sitting on 441 acres of its best farm soil

08.04.2026
Seasats Lightfish noaa drone

A 305-pound American drone boat doing 5 knots picked up a Chinese destroyer on radar 10 miles out, closed to within a few hundred meters and filmed it, and the destroyer turned to watch it back

08.04.2026
Cross River Rail TBM Else Merle Woolloongabba

Two 1,490-ton boring machines that had already dug the Sydney Metro were trucked to Brisbane in parts, rebuilt, tested, taken apart again and lowered into a hole in the ground to be built a third time

08.04.2026
BALTOPS 2026 Iver3 drone

The Navy took a 7-foot drone’s depth sensors, sonar and buoyancy with nothing but a wall of air bubbles in a Latvian harbor, and the Coast Guard just gave industry until August 7 to offer something better

08.03.2026
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