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The IIHS named the Rivian R1S a 2026 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award winner, the institute’s highest crashworthiness rating

Ford’s EV sales collapsed 70% in Q1 to just 6,860 units as the F-150 Lightning sat out and Mustang Mach-E faded

Ford F-Series moved 159,901 units in Q1 to stay America’s top truck despite a 16% year-over-year drop

Next-generation Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 enter production in October with new exteriors and reworked powertrains

Bot Auto says its driverless freight rigs already beat human drivers on cost across the 230-mile Houston-Dallas corridor — robot trucks cheaper per mile than a paid driver

Aurora’s driverless trucks just logged 280,000 autonomous miles on the Dallas-to-Houston run — 1,400 loads, 100% on time, no human in the cab

Tesla just shrank its unsupervised robotaxi fleet to 20 cars across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what is holding back the rollout

China’s first national solid-state EV battery standard takes effect July 2026 — locking in safety and performance rules just as carmakers across Asia race their first cells off the line

The Neoliner Origin — the world’s largest cargo ship to use wind as its primary propulsion — just launched in Turkey, built to cross oceans on sails alone

The Air Force just reversed course on the E-7A Wedgetail — telling Congress it will now buy at least seven of the radar aircraft it tried to cancel last year

Greater Bay’s debut solid-state cells are headed straight into GAC’s high-end Hyptec sedans — GWh-scale production targeted for late 2026 in the company’s first commercial launch

Tesla just shrank its unsupervised robotaxi fleet to 20 cars across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what is slowing the rollout

Aurora’s driverless trucks just logged 280,000 autonomous miles on the Dallas-to-Houston run — 1,400 loads, 100% on time, no human in the cab

Boeing’s Q1 deliveries hit 143 jets — beating Airbus’s 114 and handing the planemaker its strongest first quarter since the MAX crisis

Bot Auto says its driverless freight trucks already beat human drivers on cost across the 230-mile Houston-Dallas corridor — robot rigs cheaper per mile than a paid driver

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

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