Bruno Teles

Energy & Electric Mobility

Bruno Teles is an energy and industry journalist who has published more than 7,000 articles across the oil, gas, technology, mining, and construction sectors. He writes daily about the companies, projects, and breakthroughs shaping how the world makes and moves energy. At Watts & Wild he leads coverage of power and the grid, batteries and storage, solar and wind, nuclear, and electric mobility seen through the battery and the range.

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The Panama Canal does not run on seawater but on rain, and every giant ship that crosses dumps about 200 million litres of fresh water into the ocean, which is why a drought can choke world trade

Off the northern tip of Scotland sits the world's largest tidal power station, turbines bolted to the seabed that spin with the pull of the moon to make the most predictable renewable energy on Earth

The world's largest electric vehicle is a 110 ton mining truck in Switzerland that never has to be plugged in, because hauling rock downhill all day makes more power than it burns climbing back up

Los Angeles is finishing the world's largest wildlife crossing, a 114 million dollar bridge disguised as a hillside over 10 lanes of freeway, built so the mountain lions the road trapped and inbred can finally cross

The US Coast Guard left 29 reindeer on a remote Alaskan island in 1944, and with no predators the herd exploded to 6,000, then crashed to 42 in a single brutal winter

Saudi Arabia has almost no rivers, so it drinks the sea, and its newest mega-plant just stopped burning oil to do it, turning 600 million litres of seawater into drinking water a day

China's "artificial sun" held a 100-million-degree plasma steady for 1,066 seconds, almost 18 minutes, becoming the first reactor ever to break the 1,000-second wall

Finland switched on the world's largest sand battery in June 2025, a 100 MWh store holding 2,000 tonnes of soapstone that cuts a town's heating emissions by nearly 70 percent

China is building a 400 km solar great wall across a desert it once called the Sea of Death, aiming for 100 GW by 2030 to help power Beijing

China just built a 26 MW offshore wind turbine with a 310-metre rotor, smashing the old 20 MW record while Western makers stalled near 18 MW

In the Gobi Desert China just got the only reactor on Earth to breed uranium-233 from thorium, six decades after the US built the idea and walked away in 1969

Fervo's Cape Station in Utah is on track to send its first 100 MW of 24/7 geothermal power to the grid in late 2026, scaling to 500 MW by 2028

BYD's new megawatt platform charges an EV with about 400 km of range in just 5 minutes at a record 1,000 kW, roughly as fast as a petrol fill-up

Solid-state batteries promising up to 1,000 kilometres of EV range just hit a real pilot line in 2026, and the catch is not the chemistry

An EV battery loses only 2.3 percent of capacity a year across 22,700 real cars, so it still holds more than 80 percent after eight years on the road

China won the electric car race, but now it faces a wave of worn-out batteries heading for a million tonnes a year by 2030

China is putting a battery made from salt into cars in 2026, and at about 19 dollars a kilowatt-hour it undercuts lithium by more than half

The world's largest battery will run on rust, an iron-air design that holds a charge for 100 hours instead of four

Painting just one of a wind turbine's three blades black cut bird collision deaths by an average of 71.9 percent in a field experiment at a Norwegian wind farm

California just switched on the first US solar panels built over irrigation canals, and covering all 4,000 miles could save 63 billion gallons of water a year

Inside the world's largest solar farm, where 20,000 sheep keep the grass down