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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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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
colossal crane nuclear reactor darlington

A 606-ton steel can 98 feet long is taking shape in an Ontario factory, the piece that turns Canada’s first small modular reactor from a hole in the ground into a machine, and exactly one shop on the continent has started one

07.28.2026
greyshark hydrogen submarine

While America’s 80-ton drone submarine runs on diesel and batteries, the German hydrogen one is built to hold sixteen weeks below without surfacing once, and the first two governments buying it will not say who they are

07.28.2026
orka dock drone

A German box on the back of a crewless boat opens in under 30 seconds, throws a drone into the air and catches it again on a deck pitching at 15 knots, guided down by a laser reading the drop to the width of three stacked pennies

07.27.2026
Monash fuel cell membrane hydrogen

A hydrogen fuel cell manufactures water every second it runs and dies the moment its insides dry out, so Australian engineers just built a membrane with no water in it at all and ran a cell bone dry at 482 degrees Fahrenheit

07.27.2026
stella juve solar

Dutch students just unveiled an ambulance that runs everything on sunlight, the X-ray, the ultrasound, the vaccine cooler and the wheels themselves, built to be parked as the clinic in villages past the last power line

07.27.2026
Hartlepool reactor graphite

Britain just bought two more years from a pair of reactors built to last 25 and generating since 1983, 28 terawatt hours for 8.4 million homes, all riding on graphite bricks that crack on a one-way street and cannot be replaced

07.27.2026
ECL MV-1 hydrogen data center Mountain View

A California data center has run for two years with no power line at all, making its own electricity from hydrogen and cooling its 1,800 GPUs with the water that drips out of the fuel cells, and it just ordered stacks for a bigger one

07.27.2026
Mutriku breakwater storm waves

While America’s flagship wave power site sits wired and empty off Oregon, a breakwater in a Spanish town of 5,000 turned 15 this month with more operating hours than anything in wave energy, and an Australian turbine just signed on to join it

07.27.2026
ITER sector module lift crane

Two cranes rated 1,500 tons together are carrying about 1,400 tons of fusion reactor wedge in France today, four hooks reading 350 tons each, on a lift where the spare margin is thinner than anyone would like and there is no second attemp

07.27.2026
SolarDuck Merganser North Sea

A raft of solar platforms riding several meters above the North Sea has now survived two winters 7.5 miles off the Dutch coast, certified for 38-foot waves, by standing on columns and letting the sea pass underneath instead of taking the hit

07.27.2026
Viking Libra float out Fincantieri Ancona

The first cruise ship ever built to run on liquid hydrogen will crane its fuel aboard in containers at port calls, because not one cruise port on Earth can pump the stuff, and the cells will push about a third of a 54,300-ton hull

07.26.2026
Hell's Kitchen lithium Imperial Valley

A shrinking California lake sits on enough dissolved lithium for 375 million EV batteries, more than every car on American roads, and the plant named Hell’s Kitchen plans to pull it from the same scalding brine that already spins its turbines

07.26.2026
JET tokamak interior Culham

Britain just enlisted America’s biggest fusion startup to prove a reactor can breed its own fuel, turning lithium into tritium with the machine’s own neutrons, because the world’s entire supply weighs one packed carry-on and shrinks 5.5% a year

07.26.2026
solar jet fuel swiss

A Swiss airline became the first anywhere to fly on kerosene made from sunlight, a 190-liter barrel cooked by a field of mirrors in Germany, refined alongside fossil crude in an ordinary refinery and pumped into Hamburg Airport’s normal supply

07.26.2026
Rogfast tunnel roundabout

While Germany and Denmark lower 73,500-ton concrete boxes onto the Baltic and watch the schedule slip, Norway is blasting a deeper road under worse rock on time, two roundabouts 820 feet below the sea already carved from the stone

07.26.2026
Trident II D5 missile launch surface

An American submarine throws its 130,000-pound nuclear missiles, heavier than one and a half loaded semi trucks, out of a bone-dry tube with two inches of clearance per side, and the rocket only fires once the weapon has cleared the sea

07.26.2026
Rance tidal power station aerial

While America’s closest shot at tidal power is a 5-megawatt pilot still on paper, France has been pulling 240 megawatts out of the same estuary since de Gaulle cut the ribbon, with turbines that spin whichever way the water moves

07.26.2026
Fraunhofer Bavarian Lake Solar Panels

Germany stood 2,600 solar panels dead upright on a Bavarian lake, edge-on to the sun, because a law says you can shade 15% of the water and not an inch more, and the rows lean like sails on underwater keels when the wind loads up

07.26.2026
UCLA plastic waste hydrogen reactor

American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic’s carbon came out as solid rock

07.25.2026
Herrenknecht San Jose boring machine

Germany just finished the machine for America’s widest subway tunnel, a 54-foot borer whose motor alone weighs more than 300 tons, and the five-mile San Jose tube it was built to dig is still on the drawing board with no sailing date booked

07.25.2026
PNNL uranium seawater

America just handed out the federal recipe for mining uranium from the ocean instead of the ground: cheap yarn, chemically treated until the metal sticks to it, left soaking in seawater for weeks, proven so far at five grams, the weight of a nickel

07.25.2026
stmu auv turkish

While the Pentagon’s 80-ton drone submarine, the size of a subway car, is still officially a minelayer, Turkey unveiled a 17.8-ton one specced to fire the full-size torpedoes of a crewed boat and launch an anti-ship missile from underwater

07.25.2026
RivGen Kvichak river Alaska

A turbine the size of half a basketball court has sat invisible on an Alaskan riverbed since 2019, powering a village of 70 where diesel lands 2,000 gallons at a time on old DC-4 planes, and Congress just moved to stop licensing it like Hoover Dam

07.25.2026
pacwave south project

While every wave machine you have seen floats where the storms live, the generator first in line for America’s first commercial berth hides underwater, braking itself when the sea turns ugly, and it still has not left the dock

07.25.2026
Blue Ops Variant 7 USV

The exploding drone boats that rattled Russia’s Black Sea fleet just landed an American factory, 26 feet of hull hauling 1,430 pounds of payload 800 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel, set to be built by the hundred in Oregon

07.25.2026
lower thames crossing boring machine

Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

07.24.2026
Riverside energy from waste Thames aerial

London just unveiled plans to bore two 8-foot tunnels for 12 miles under the city carrying nothing but hot water, piping the heat a garbage incinerator vents into the sky today into 300,000 homes that burn gas to make the same heat again

07.24.2026
Principality Stadium solar panels roof

The most photographed roof in Welsh sport just turned out to be hiding 3,296 solar panels, craned over the trusses of Cardiff’s rugby stadium in six quiet weeks, and on the sunniest afternoons the building now runs largely off the grid

07.24.2026
Steady Energy LDR-50

Finland just ran a nuclear reactor past regulators from five countries and none found a showstopper, a machine with no turbine at all, running at the pressure of four car tires, built to do one thing: heat the pipes under a city

07.24.2026
TBM Zelda breakthrough Bulleen

A 4,400-ton boring machine just began crawling out of Melbourne by night, broken into loads so big that traffic lights come down ahead of her, leaving her twin alone 148 feet under the river, chewing 33 feet a day until later this year

07.24.2026
Pacific Grebe TN Eagle cask

A 165-ton nuclear cask that fits in a two-car garage but weighs as much as two Abrams tanks just got a British ship rebuilt around it, holds re-machined to the millimeter, to haul Japanese reactor fuel across the planet to France

07.24.2026
Gabler Ranger USV sea trial

A German drone boat built to fire out of a 21-inch torpedo tube just passed its first sea trials, a 15-foot hull with a keel that folds flat and a mast that collapses, so a submarine can look above the waves without ever coming up

07.24.2026
oceanwell california desalination project

A desalination pod designed to trade power-hungry pumps for the weight of 1,300 feet of ocean just cleared its first endurance run, three months at 93% uptime, and gets lowered into Santa Monica Bay this fall for the test that counts

07.24.2026
SRL East TBM launch Burwood

Melbourne just launched eight 328-foot boring machines under its suburbs, and one of them will be run by the world’s first all-women tunnelling crew, 18 women picked from almost 870 applicants now training in hyperbaric chambers

07.23.2026
gold ore drill core Australia

An 11-foot drill core just came out of Western Australia carrying 32 ounces of gold in a single ton of rock, roughly 500 times the grade that keeps a working mine in business, and the ton is still 99.9 percent plain stone

07.23.2026
HydroQuest tidal turbine

Six seabed turbines built for a French strait where the current outruns most sailboats just got stuck on a single missing document, with every permit signed, the shipyard waiting 20 miles up the coast and the tide arriving on schedule twice a day

07.23.2026
lockheed MORFIUS X-Rotor drone

A drone killer that fires nothing at all just broke cover in England, built to fly into a swarm, switch on a microwave and knock out more than 50 drones in one flight by frying their electronics, then land, get picked up and go again

07.23.2026
Sydney Metro TBM Jessie Ruby

A 1,100-ton machine just got cut into 16 pieces under Sydney’s financial district and hauled out at walking pace on 68-wheelers at 3am, after boring with just 16 feet of rock between its tunnel and the floor of Sydney Harbour

07.23.2026
Core Power floating nuclear plant

A nuclear reactor shelved almost a decade ago just got pulled out of retirement to float on a barge, with a UK company studying how to build the whole plant inside a shipyard like a ship and tow it to any port the grid can’t reach

07.23.2026
Alotta floating solar fish farm

A salmon farm above the Arctic Circle, where January gives under five hours of daylight, now pulls more than 90% of its power from floating solar ringed around the pens, and the diesel generator that ran around the clock has barely turned over since

07.23.2026
Anduril tilrotor

A tiltrotor drone just broke cover in England with 76 laser-guided rockets in its belly and a dozen counter-drone interceptors in its nose, built to fly on an Apache’s wing at treetop height and fold into a shipping container between fights

07.23.2026
LA Metro Elsie Soyeon TBM

Six explosion-proof German machines weighing 1,000 tons each just finished boring a subway under Los Angeles, grinding straight through the oil field that feeds the La Brea Tar Pits, sealing out the leaking methane the whole way

07.22.2026
ap300 westinghouse reactor

Britain just committed to small nuclear two opposite ways: the state backed a British reactor in Wales, while a private company bets its own money on an American one in England, the Georgia reactor shrunk to a third of its size

07.22.2026
High Flux Reactor Petten

The radioactive dye in a US heart or bone scan often starts in a 1960s reactor buried in Dutch coastal dunes that quietly makes 30% of the world’s medical isotopes, and its replacement is going in now with divers pouring concrete underwater

07.22.2026
Triton Depth drone

A Danish startup just set out to catch undersea saboteurs by listening instead of chasing, scattering cheap silent microphones across the seabed that hear a diver or a stealth drone coming long before it reaches the cables carrying 99% of the world’s data

07.22.2026
Kyoto fusioneering

While every fusion startup races to build the reactor, one Japanese company skipped it and just cornered the picks and shovels, the microwave guns that heat the plasma and the blankets that breed the fuel every reactor will have to buy

07.22.2026
Rye Park Wind Farm

Australia’s largest onshore wind farm just revealed one site killed 20 wedge-tailed eagles in 18 months, its deadliest anywhere for the 9-foot-wingspan raptor, and the fix that works needs a permit first

07.22.2026
great lakes line 5 tunnel project

Michigan just cleared the way to bury a 73-year-old oil pipeline under the Great Lakes in a four-mile tunnel, dug by a machine 500 feet long, nearly two football fields, tended by divers who live in pressurized chambers for weeks 270 feet down

07.22.2026
drone boxfish arv-i

An underwater drone that sizes up salmon on Norwegian fish farms went fully autonomous for a strange reason: sunshine kept scrambling the beams of light used to steer it, so the team gave up and let it drive itself

07.22.2026
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