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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cargo ship towering with wing sails just crossed the Atlantic with the sails doing the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing past bunker-oil engines

An electric air taxi just hauled a single pilot across a major U.S. city center for the first time — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock

Tesla just pulled past BYD on quarterly pure-EV deliveries by 47,000 cars — reclaiming the global BEV crown in Q1 even as its European sales slumped

Ford just opened early talks with BYD to source batteries for its next hybrid lineup — the U.S. automaker quietly knocking on the door of its biggest Chinese rival

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

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

China’s FAW Group just installed a 142 kWh semi-solid-state battery in a production car — unlocking more than 620 miles of range on a single charge

A new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing-sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing the way past bunker-oil engines

Toyota just topped Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings for the fifth year running — and Lexus locked in second as Detroit’s Big Three slid down the table

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