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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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Kraken Robotics SeaPower subsea battery

The battery packs going into drone submarines now have no box around them, no oil and no compensator bladder, just cells cast into polymer and dropped into water pushing 8,700 pounds on every square inch

08.03.2026
Stade Kernkraftwerk Abbruch Reaktorgebäude Abrissbirne

A 4.4-ton steel ball hanging off a 198-ton cable excavator has been swinging into the 31-inch concrete shell of a German reactor building since March, and it is not there to bring it down, only to crack it open for the shears

08.03.2026
grace sandy tbm forrestfield airport

Two machines named Grace and Sandy bored 9.4 miles of twin tunnel under Perth and both came out the far end, and the 85 feet of tunnel that ended up permanently bent was the stretch men were digging by hand between them

08.03.2026
Boswell Energy Center Cohasset Minnesota aerial

177,675 solar panels are going up beside 940 megawatts of coal in Minnesota and plug into the grid through 2.5 miles of line, while 255,000 more from the same auction need 3.5 miles and a substation built from nothing

08.03.2026
Sandia National Solar Thermal Test Facility heliostat field

A 174-foot tower in the New Mexico desert takes 175 mirrors aimed at its face and drops a curtain of ceramic beads 33 feet wide and two and a half inches thick straight through the beam, coming out at 1,472 degrees

08.03.2026
Saab Autonomous Ocean Drone LUUV

A 7.2-ton Swedish underwater drone carries a sidescan sonar, a flank array and a deliberately empty room in the middle of it, with spare weight allowance built in for whatever eventually gets dropped out on the seabed

08.03.2026
Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling Toronto plate heat exchangers

Toronto cools its downtown with 39-degree water pulled from 270 feet down in Lake Ontario, three miles offshore, and once it has chilled a hospital, an arena and a hall of AI servers, it goes into the city’s drinking supply

08.02.2026
Exail K-Ster C expendable mine disposal vehicle

A 110-pound French drone aims its own head at a sea mine instead of pointing its body at it, tilting 90 degrees either way, then fires a shaped charge and goes up with the mine, and NATO buys them by the several hundred

08.02.2026
Cellula Robotics Guardian AUV

An American team started cutting the nose, tail and midsection of a hydrogen drone submarine in July, an 8.8-ton machine 38 feet long built to run 3,100 miles underwater and stay down 38 days without coming up

08.02.2026
AlpinSolar Muttsee dam solar panels Axpo

The 4,872 solar panels bolted to a Swiss dam hang five feet off the concrete so inspectors can still walk the wall and map its cracks, and that gap is why the snow bounce everyone credits them for comes to 1.5 percent

08.02.2026
BHP Jansen potash mine Saskatchewan shafts headframe

An Australian mining company drilled 89 holes 34 miles long in total into Saskatchewan, pumped them full of chilled brine to freeze 2,625 feet of waterlogged sand into rock, and is now thawing it back a degree at a time

08.02.2026
Natel Energy FishSafe turbine runner blades

A California lab sent 112 sturgeon through a spinning hydropower turbine at up to 61 miles an hour and all but one came out alive, and the only thing changed from the textbook runner was the shape of the blades

08.02.2026
Grindavik lava barriers aerial Iceland

A hundred bulldozers worked 22 hours a day to pile 8.7 miles of dirt ramps up to 82 feet tall around an Icelandic town, and they sit parked there now because the lava gives 20 minutes of warning before it comes up

08.02.2026
Fraport vertical photovoltaic modules Runway 18 West

Frankfurt Airport stood 37,000 solar panels dead upright along 2,800 meters of a runway, edge-on to the sun, so the array gives up the middle of the day on purpose and comes out as a camel with two humps instead of one

08.02.2026
chinese solar train argentina

A Chinese-built railcar climbs 26 miles up an Andean gorge on 352 kilowatt-hours of battery bolted to its roof, pulls into a mountain village, plugs in for 25 minutes and goes back down, and there is not one solar panel on it

08.01.2026
Wunderland Kalkar cooling tower amusement park

A 190-foot free-fall tower drops riders inside the cooling tower of a 327-megawatt German reactor that was finished, filled with liquid sodium and never handed a single fuel rod, and a Dutch scrap dealer bought the site for about $3 million

08.01.2026
Yucca Mountain tunnel boring machine south portal

An 860-ton machine arrived in the Nevada desert on 50 trucks, spun 48 cutter wheels through volcanic rock at 18 feet an hour for 31 months, and cut a five-mile horseshoe 984 feet down that now has barn owls living in it

08.01.2026
texas coal mine solar panels

Two million solar panels and 34,000 tons of American steel are going up on a working Texas coal mine, and the 310-megawatt lignite plant next to them keeps burning, with the owner now looking at digging the mine wider

08.01.2026
Oneka Iceberg buoy Noyo Harbor Fort Bragg

A 22-ton yellow Canadian machine called Iceberg is parked on land in California with no motor, no battery and nothing to plug into, built to sit offshore and turn 13,200 gallons of the Pacific into fresh water a day

08.01.2026
Resolution Copper No 10 shaft headframe Arizona

Rock at the bottom of an Arizona copper shaft cooks at 175 degrees nearly 7,000 feet down, and chilling it for a working mine would take more than 140 megawatts of refrigeration, about forty thousand tons of it, running for the life of the mine

08.01.2026
exail drone

A 70-pound French box flies a drone off an 11.6-ton boat with nobody aboard and keeps it up for 24 hours without landing once, fed by a 230-foot cable that carries current up and video back down at 100 megabits a second

08.01.2026
Anderson Dam tunnel outlet construction Valley Water

California just finished shoving an 8-foot boring machine 347 feet under a lake with nothing to brace against, coming out through the reservoir floor with the water still sitting on top, and the dam above it is now coming down for a rebuild

07.31.2026
hydrokinetic turbine

A 132-ton turbine has been lying on a Canadian riverbed since the only factory meant to build 39 more went bankrupt, and the man who put it there is asking to drop nine on the same spot and hundreds across North America

07.31.2026
Hanwha Qcells perovskite solar cell

A solar panel spent 42 straight days at 185 degrees and 85 percent humidity, took 200 round trips down to minus 40, and got soaked in hot wet air and frozen ten times so any water inside could turn to ice and split it open

07.31.2026
BASE-STEP antimatter trap truck CERN

CERN just craned a 2,200-pound box onto a truck over three hours, drove it six miles at 29 miles an hour and plugged it back in with all 92 antiprotons still alive, the first time anyone has moved antimatter and brought it home

07.31.2026
Western University floating solar Ilderton pond Ontario

An aquarium pump on the shore of an Ontario pond blew bubbles under 40 floating solar panels all winter and kept the ice off them for 1.9 kilowatt-hours, less than a fiftieth of a percent of what they generated

07.31.2026
Textron Tsunami USV deck

A drone boat with no crew has to throw a quadcopter into the air, follow it, watch it hit something, then catch it again on a deck rolling in open sea with nobody standing there to grab it, and America wants one in the water in 29 days

07.31.2026
Proteus AR1100 tidal turbine Naru Strait Japan

While an Alaskan startup gets ready to test a tidal prototype in a Massachusetts canal, the same turbine family America wants to install has been certified and feeding Japan’s national grid for over a year

07.31.2026
Diablo Canyon intake structure cooling water Pacific

Four 13,000-horsepower pumps drag 1.7 million gallons of the Pacific a minute through California’s last nuclear plant and push it back into the cove 20 degrees warmer, and the law letting them do it runs out in 2030

07.30.2026
mazama geothermal

A volcano the size of Rhode Island in central Oregon holds rock at 629 degrees just 9,800 feet down, and a Texas company cracked it open with two wells and pumped water through the gap at 100 feet an hour

07.30.2026
Lunwei East floating solar Changhua Taiwan

A 181-megawatt Taiwanese solar plant floats at high tide and settles onto the seabed when the water goes out, twice a day, and over 25 years it works out to 12 percent more electricity than the identical plant onshore

07.30.2026
saildrone boat

A 23-foot drone sailboat hit 39.7 mph surfing down a 55-foot wave inside a hurricane, about twenty times its normal cruising speed, and NOAA has 26 more drones parked across the Atlantic waiting for the next one

07.30.2026
DUNE steel beam Ross Shaft SURF lowering

A 43-foot steel beam weighing 15,890 pounds rides 4,850 feet down an old South Dakota gold mine standing upright in a cage 4.5 feet wide, one of roughly 2,100 pieces that have to make the same trip before summer ends

07.30.2026
partenope boring machine

A 4,000-ton machine named Partenope has been turning a 44-foot cutting wheel through the hills east of Salerno for 17 months, 18 electric motors pouring 10 megawatts into that one wheel, and nobody outside the site will say how much of the tunnel is left

07.30.2026
deep fision nuclear reactor

A US startup drilled an eight-inch hole 6,000 feet into Kansas to prove the rock would hold a reactor, and the prototype that goes down the next one arrived this month. One borehole would make 15 megawatts; the fuel to run it is a 2027 problem

07.30.2026
gazelle wind power

While China holds its floating turbines steady with 15,000 tonnes of concrete moored off Guangdong, a startup in a northern Portuguese port is betting most of that mass is dead weight, and plans to prove it with a counterweight and three arms

07.30.2026
isotopes fusion machine

A Wisconsin machine fuses hydrogen every day and throws away the energy every other fusion company on Earth is chasing, keeping only the neutrons that fly out and firing them into liquid uranium to make the isotope behind 40,000 American scans a day

07.29.2026
big blue crane

A 1,100-ton crane as tall as a 20-story building left Wisconsin standing straight up on a barge and has been under tow ever since, 9,000 nautical miles through the St. Lawrence locks and the Panama Canal, never once lying down

07.29.2026
CR450 bullet train

While America just signed the construction contract for its first stretch of true high-speed track, China says the train it built to carry passengers at 249 mph has cleared its type tests and is halfway through the trial mileage required before anyone boards

07.29.2026
solar panels during solar eclipse sky

While Texas covered its 2024 eclipse by ramping up natural gas plants, Europe meets its own on August 12 with a battery fleet that doubled to 29 gigawatts in a single year, the first continent-scale test of whether storage does what gas did

07.29.2026
GARC unmanned surface vessel Navy

An American drone boat weighing 4,800 pounds just sailed past the missile holes in a 40,000-ton warship off Hawaii and blew a fresh one at the waterline, outweighed by the ship it was attacking roughly 16,000 to one

07.29.2026
Liebherr T 264 battery electric Fortescue

A 240-ton mining truck with nobody in the cab now drives itself onto a pad where a robot arm plugs it in, and the charger behind that arm pushes 6 megawatts, about two dozen Tesla Superchargers aimed at one vehicle

07.29.2026
T2D tunnel boring machine Elizabeth Adelaide

The third 3,500-ton borer under Adelaide is the strange one: she digs 1.4 miles north, then crews take her apart, spin a 2,000-ton block of cutterhead and drive around, and rebuild her to come straight back, because a fourth machine costs more

07.29.2026
Xcel sherco solar farm

Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep spinning, fuel-free, to steady the solar that replaced it

07.29.2026
gardena tunnel

Italy just started boring the ramp to the world’s longest rail tunnel with one 2,000-ton machine that has to be taken apart and hauled backward through its own hole to dig the second tube

07.28.2026
REDstack Blue Energy Breezanddijk

The world’s first plant making electricity from salt water meeting fresh sits in a small blue building on a Dutch dike, switched on by a king in 2014, and hitting its own 50-kilowatt label would take 37 football fields of membrane

07.28.2026
bornholm energy island

A Danish island of 39,500 people hangs off the grid by a single 60-megawatt cable and is being rewired to gather 3 gigawatts of Baltic wind, and the first real price just landed: the buildings ran 85 percent over, not the cable

07.28.2026
diggy scardust boring machine

A 2,050-ton machine named Diggy Scardust is grinding a 39-foot hole under Toronto with 23 million pounds of thrust, three and a half years into a drive specced at 49 feet a day, eight months of which it spent not moving at all

07.28.2026
aurora solar

Australia built the receiver for a solar tower running on liquid sodium, a metal liquid from 208 to 1,621 degrees Fahrenheit, and while the finished machine sits in a Brisbane suburb, its land just signed up for AI data centers

07.28.2026
Lufeng CA01 module hoisting CGN

China just lowered a 950-tonne steel room into a reactor building in Guangdong, the same numbered part whose American twin was set inside a South Carolina reactor in July 2015 and has waited in an unfinished building ever since

07.28.2026
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