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Rowan Calder

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Watercraft

Mexico’s tall ship Cuauhtémoc just set sail again — six months after losing two cadets when its 147-foot masts struck the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge

June 1, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Greater Bay’s first solid-state EV battery cells just rolled off the line — 621 miles per charge, no liquid electrolyte, no fires through every stress test

June 1, 2026

SUV’s

9 SUVs mechanics are flagging as ‘money pits’ this year — owners already reporting five-figure repair bills before 100,000 miles

May 31, 2026

Trucks

8 pickup trucks mechanics now call ‘maintenance nightmares’ in 2026

May 31, 2026

Trucks

7 pickup trucks mechanics say will run past 300,000 miles without a major repair

May 31, 2026

Cars

13 car features that scream ‘pull me over’ to every cop on the road

May 31, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Tesla just slashed $15,000 off the tri-motor Cyberbeast and pushed the base Cybertruck down to $69,990 — the biggest price cut since the truck launched

May 31, 2026

Transportation

A new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% as bunker oil engines sit idle

May 31, 2026

Aircraft

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

May 31, 2026

Electric Vehicles

China’s FAW just rolled out the industry’s first semi-solid-state EV battery — a 142 kWh pack with 500 Wh/kg density pushing a single charge past 620 miles

May 31, 2026

Aircraft

A Chicago jury just slammed Boeing with a $49.5 million verdict over the 2019 Ethiopian 737 MAX crash — awarded to the family of a 24-year-old killed onboard

May 31, 2026

Military

Long COVID brain scans just overturned the leading theory — there’s no widespread brain inflammation, but anxiety and depression light up memory centers instead

May 31, 2026

Electric Vehicles

China’s Ganfeng Lithium just began producing the world’s first 10-amp-hour solid-state battery cell — hitting 500 watt-hours per kilogram, roughly double today’s best EV packs

May 30, 2026

SUV’s

The 2026 Lexus GX just posted the highest predicted reliability score in its class — a body-on-frame beast built to outlast almost every midsize SUV on the road

May 30, 2026

Trucks

Aurora and McLane just logged 280,000 driverless miles on the Dallas-to-Houston route — robot trucks running the 230-mile corridor cheaper than a human driver

May 30, 2026

Cars

Toyota just locked in the top spot on Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings for the fifth year running — and Lexus took second as Detroit’s Big Three slid again

May 30, 2026

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