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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 Ford and Slate are both selling a cheap, ugly electric pickup, and the choice comes down to whether you’d rather pay $3,545 more for the one nobody has been allowed to photograph or take the one that shows up without paint Olivia Richman · Aug 7, 2026 NewsRead more → Ford has finally picked a name for its “affordable” electric pickup, after nine months and hundreds of candidates, and it landed on a nautical word for six feet of water on a truck that starts at $28,350 before delivery Dave McQuilling · Aug 7, 2026 7:26am ET Tesla owns several tons of die-cast machinery built to stamp Cybertruck parts and spent three weeks locked out of the Texas plant holding it, and a judge has now let the company walk in and take it back, with about 100 trucks leaving Giga Texas the next day Olivia Richman · Aug 6, 2026 6:30pm ET BMW pushed a movie advertisement onto the dashboards of its cars in more than 70 countries, appearing on the screen the moment the engine started, and what has owners angry is not the ad itself but the proof that the carmaker can do it whenever it likes Olivia Richman · Aug 5, 2026 6:30pm ET Hennessey built its new $2.5 million hypercar around the number 71, making exactly 71 of them and setting the stabilizers to deploy at 71 mph and sit at 71 degrees, because the plane it is named after is the SR-71 Dave McQuilling · Aug 4, 2026 6:30pm ET A new car will carry 278 gigabytes of memory by the end of this year and the screen-heavy ones run 2 terabytes, more than most laptops hold, and the AI assistant in the dashboard eats 256 of those gigabytes on its own Olivia Richman · Jul 30, 2026 6:30pm ET CarsRead more → Ford and Slate are both selling a cheap, ugly electric pickup, and the choice comes down to whether you’d rather pay $3,545 more for the one nobody has been allowed to photograph or take the one that shows up without paint Olivia Richman · Aug 7, 2026 7:00pm ET A 3,000-pound Chinese electric sports car makes 430 horsepower from a 60-kWh battery, hits 60 in about three seconds and sells at home for $34,000, and it is going to Britain rather than America Olivia Richman · Aug 3, 2026 6:30pm ET A 5,960-pound Porsche SUV just beat a Corvette ZR1 to 60 miles an hour in 2.1 seconds, carrying 2,100 pounds more than the Corvette, which is an entire Lotus Elise of extra weight along for the ride Olivia Richman · Jul 31, 2026 6:30pm ET Mr. Bean crashed the world’s fastest road car twice, filed Britain’s biggest car insurance claim ever at $1.4 million, and the McLaren F1 he finally sold in 2015 has doubled in value since: five hypercar crashes that made insurers weep Dave McQuilling · Jul 26, 2026 6:30pm ET I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 6:05pm ET EnergyRead more → 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 4:00pm ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 1:00pm ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 11:30am ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 7:00am ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 7, 2026 3:30pm ET EVsRead more → Lucid just showed the first real images of the Cosmos, a $50,000 electric SUV that pulls about 300 miles from a 69 kWh pack, and the pictures arrived inside the same update that quietly moved it a full year further away Olivia Richman · Aug 6, 2026 8:00pm ET While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,000 miles of robotaxi service with a paid human sitting in the front seat Olivia Richman · Aug 5, 2026 8:00pm ET US regulators just opened the process to force an obvious emergency door release into every new car, warning that a hidden handle can mean severe injury or death, while clearing Tesla of the probe that helped start it all Olivia Richman · Jul 26, 2026 8:00pm ET California just launched an instant $3,500 discount for first-time EV buyers, no application, no income cap, off the price before you drive away — and the $50,000 vehicle cap is waived entirely for automakers headquartered in the state, which hands Rivian and Lucid a golden ticket Olivia Richman · Jul 14, 2026 6:00pm ET America yearns for small, cute, affordable EVs and the MG GO! is exactly that — a friendly electric hatch previewing a 2027 production car that will fight the Renault 5 everywhere except the one market starving for it Olivia Richman · Jul 13, 2026 7:00pm ET IndustryRead more → 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 2:30pm ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 8, 2026 8:30am ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 7, 2026 5:00pm ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 7, 2026 2:00pm ET 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 Luis Reyes · Aug 7, 2026 9:30am ET HybridsRead more → The German yard that just won Canada’s biggest-ever defence deal for up to 12 crewed submarines has a stranger boat still dry in the shed — an 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New Spy Shots From the Nürburgring Suggest That’s About to Change Dave McQuilling · Apr 15, 2026 The Prius is selling so poorly, it could leave the United States market — and Toyota doesn’t really mind Olivia Richman · Apr 11, 2026 PerformanceRead more → Hennessey built its new $2.5 million hypercar around the number 71, making exactly 71 of them and setting the stabilizers to deploy at 71 mph and sit at 71 degrees, because the plane it is named after is the SR-71 Dave McQuilling · Aug 4, 2026 6:30pm ET While a Porsche 911 Turbo S costs $270,300 to reach 200 miles an hour, Chevrolet just got there for $73,495 with a naturally aspirated 6.7-liter V8 making 535 horsepower and no turbo anywhere on it Olivia Richman · Jul 31, 2026 8:00pm ET A 535-horsepower Corvette with a 6.7-liter V8 was doing 130 on County Road 13 North in Florida, a two-lane road posted at 45, and the deputy who stopped it waved away the insurance papers and cuffed the driver Olivia Richman · Jul 30, 2026 8:00pm ET Lotus fans keep begging for a V8 Emira, and the factory answered with two fewer cylinders: a 416-hp 2.0-liter it calls the fastest four-cylinder production car on Earth, 186 mph flat out and 60 in 3.7 seconds Olivia Richman · Jul 27, 2026 8:00pm ET A factory-stock electric Lotus just beat the Tesla EV lap record at Sepang by more than seven seconds, a 905-horsepower sedan with zero track modifications taking down a Model 3 that was stripped and rebuilt specifically to hold it Olivia Richman · Jul 25, 2026 5:40am ET Reviews & Guides I spent a few days in a $160,000 electric G-Wagen whose dash and steering wheel shake like a four-liter V8 is idling under the hood, then watched 180 miles of indicated range cover 120 miles of actual road Dave McQuilling · Aug 2, 2026 6:30pm ET Cadillac’s $140,000 Blackwing keeps its best performance feature locked behind a $25 SD card, the format laptops dropped years ago, and it records nothing until you go buy one Dave McQuilling · Jul 29, 2026 8:00pm ET Wildfire smoke has DC, Boston and New York under air quality warnings, and the cleanest air you can find might be inside your car, depending on one cheap part behind the glovebox most drivers have never checked Dave McQuilling · Jul 27, 2026 6:30pm ET The three electric SUVs that undercut the Tesla Model Y on price all did the same thing Tesla will not: they kept the buttons — a Hyundai at $35,000 with a gauge cluster, a Kia that charges 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes, and a Rivian with a bigger frunk Olivia Richman · Jul 17, 2026 5:00pm ET Two tickets to the World Cup Final cost $33,698. The average used car in America costs $27,046. So here are five cars you could buy instead of watching one soccer game, from a Civic to a 480-horsepower Mustang Olivia Richman · Jun 16, 2026 9:00am ET
