Tri-Motor Tesla Model 3 Plaid Rumored to Be in Development

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Tri-Motor Tesla Model 3 Plaid Rumors Leak
Lars Moravy serves as Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering. During a recent appearance on the Ride the Lightning podcast he answered a direct question about fitting a third motor into the Model 3. His answer left little room for doubt. He thinks about the possibility all the time. The exchange happened at a moment when Tesla had just finished deliveries of the final Model S and Model X Plaid cars. Those vehicles carried the tri-motor layout that gave the Plaid name its reputation for extreme acceleration. With those models now gone from the lineup, the badge sits unused for the first time in years.

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AutoFlight V5000 Matrix Largest eVTOL Formation Flight

AutoFlight V5000 Matrix, the World’s Largest eVTOL, Flies in Formation With Two Smaller Aircraft

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AutoFlight V5000 Matrix Largest eVTOL Formation Flight
AutoFlight completed a coordinated flight on May 24 that paired its largest aircraft with two smaller models from the same family. One V5000 Matrix eVTOL flew alongside a pair of V2000 series aircraft in what the company called a heterogeneous three aircraft formation. The exercise checked communication between the platforms, shared route planning, and overall safety management across machines that differ sharply in size and weight.

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Meteor Mayon Volcano May 25, 2026

A Green Fireball Briefly Joined an Erupting Mayon Volcano on Camera

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Meteor Mayon Volcano May 25, 2026
Late on May 25, 2026, monitoring cameras caught an event that combined two dramatic forces in one frame. Mount Mayon volcano in Albay province on Luzon had already been sending streams of glowing lava down its slopes for months. Staff at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology kept watch through equipment positioned on Lignon Hill in Legazpi City, including a color camera that records activity around the clock.

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China Strongest Carbon Fiber T1200

China Turns the Strongest Carbon Fiber From Lab Rarity Into Factory Reality

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China Strongest Carbon Fiber T1200
Engineers at a Chinese materials group spent more than twenty years refining a notoriously difficult production process. Their work produced the first steady industrial supply of T1200-grade carbon fiber, a material long recognized for top-tier performance yet held back by limited output. Individual filaments measure only about six or seven micrometers wide. That size sits well below one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. When roughly 120,000 of those filaments form a single cable less than two millimeters thick, the bundle withstands extreme pulling loads.

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