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The Living-Orb Accounts Robert Hastings Wants to Investigate

21 October 2026 at 10:00

Witnesses describe glowing objects that seemed to breathe or communicate. Their accounts raise questions about appearance, plasma and how another encounter could be recorded.

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Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network

19 October 2026 at 17:07

Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.

Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive unit also known as Newcool, signed a strategic cooperation framework with CATL and its swap subsidiary CAES on Monday. CATL’s Choco-swap network already counts 2,520 stations across about 200 Chinese cities.

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Planetary Scientists Create Classification System and Map of Martian Soils

19 October 2026 at 15:48
Classification of realms across the Martian surface. Image credit: McBratney et al., doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2026.110649.

Planetary researchers at the University of Sydney have proposed a new way to classify the soils of Mars, along with a new word for them: areth (the name comes from Ares, the Greek name for Mars).

The post Planetary Scientists Create Classification System and Map of Martian Soils appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Battery swap works: Nio completes 1.2 million swaps in a SINGLE WEEK

10 October 2026 at 12:44

While oil prices and range anxiety dominate Western EV headlines, Nio’s battery-swap system in China keeps reaching new milestones that prove the technology can rival a traditional refueling infrastructure at scale, performing 1.2 million battery swaps over the holiday.

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E-quipment highlight: AMT’s hot-swapping battery electric rail excavator

7 October 2026 at 13:42

Rarely seen by the general public, rail road excavators are a critical piece of the infrastructure puzzle – one that can travel directly on the tracks while digging, lifting, and clearing obstacles from the track, working on everything from track maintenance and renewal to utility and civil construction projects. This one’s electric.

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NIO sells 30% of battery swap unit to Geely at more than $2 billion

28 September 2026 at 02:08

Geely is buying into NIO’s battery swap network. NIO announced definitive agreements on Sunday that hand a Geely Holding subsidiary 30% of NIO Power, the unit running its swap stations and chargers, at a post-money valuation of about RMB16 billion ($2.4 billion).

Most of what Geely is paying isn’t cash. It’s contributing its own commercial battery swap business plus RMB640 million ($94 million), while NIO takes 10% of Geely’s charging arm in a parallel deal.

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Swaptopus inches towards reality as CATL reveals new semi truck battery

19 September 2026 at 14:08

In a move that challenges Orange Juicer and Buick Electra for the highly coveted Best Name in the EV Business title, a new venture between CATL and Octopus Energy called “Swaptopus” has been formed to build out a European battery swap network for commercial trucks.

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Apple atinge novo recorde de fechamento na Nasdaq e vale US$5,02 trilhões

21 October 2026 at 21:33

As ações da Apple [$AAPL] encerraram o pregão de hoje na Nasdaq cotadas a US$343,99, um novo recorde histórico de fechamento. O recorde anterior havia sido registrado na última sexta-feira (16/10).

Hoje, os papéis da empresa subiram 1,32% e, com isso, o valor de mercado da Apple chegou a US$5,02 trilhões.

Vale notar que o recorde de hoje é apenas o de fechamento. A máxima intradiária (o maior valor atingido durante o pregão) não foi superada nesta sessão, pois permanece a registrada em outro dia.

A Apple segue na segunda posição entre as empresas mais valiosas do mundo. A líder continua sendo a NVIDIA [$NVDA], cujas ações subiram 2,54% hoje, cotadas a US$221,97, com valor de mercado de US$5,36 trilhões. Em terceiro lugar, a uma distância considerável, está a Alphabet [$GOOG], que recuou 1,62%, com ações a US$330,95 e market cap de US$4,047 trilhões.

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