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A wave of carmakers is quietly killing the touchscreen dashboard — bringing back real knobs and buttons after drivers revolted over buried menus and distracted driving

The Air Force just flew its first robot fighter solo — an unmanned combat aircraft built to wingman the F-47 at a fraction of the cost

Tesla’s Musk just promised ‘widespread’ unsupervised self-driving across America by year-end — weeks after quietly pushing it to Q4 ‘at the earliest’

The Air Force is quietly building a reusable Mach 5 bomber-drone built to punch through any air defense — a strike aircraft nothing Russia or China can match

The Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in half a century just hit the water — a ship built to pry open the Arctic as rivals race north

Norway just became the first country where nearly every new car sold is electric — gas and diesel models all but vanishing from the showroom floor

America’s public EV charging network just crossed 250,000 plugs — but drivers say far too many are still broken the moment they pull up to charge

The first hydrogen-powered big rigs are hitting U.S. highways — long-haul trucks that refuel in minutes and leave nothing but water in their wake

Driverless big rigs are now hauling freight across Texas with no one in the cab — robot trucks running the Dallas-to-Houston route cheaper than a human driver

An electric air taxi just completed its first piloted flight across a major city — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock

An electric SUV that recharges itself from the sun is finally reaching driveways — body panels made of solar cells adding dozens of free miles a week

Robotaxis were built to handle any road — but Waymo just yanked its driverless cars off freeways and out of four cities the moment heavy rain moved in

A cargo ship just crossed an ocean partly powered by giant rigid sails — towering wing-like blades that slashed its fuel use on a trans-Atlantic run

More than half of new cars sold in China are now electric or hybrid — a tipping point the U.S. market is still years away from reaching

Used electric cars now cost barely more than gas models — and most still hold over 90% of their original range after years on the road

Robotaxis are now giving more than 250,000 paid rides a week in U.S. cities — driverless cars quietly crossing from experiment to everyday commute

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