Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Zeekr said on 3 September 2026 that the 2027 model-year 7X electric SUV goes on sale in China in the fourth quarter, adding an 85-kWh Golden Battery version between the existing 75-kWh and 103-kWh packs.

Polymarket traders price a 39.5% chance that xAI will release Grok 5 by December 31, 2026, following the release of Grok 4.7 in September.

WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

Renault Geely do Brasil rolled the first locally built Geely EX5 EM-i off the line at the Ayrton Senna complex in São José dos Pinhais on 15 September 2026 and said the hybrid SUV launches in Brazil before year-end, with EX2 production from December.

The Global Fund expects generic lenacapavir, the twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, to enter the market by the end of 2026, with 24 countries worldwide due to receive it by then. Nearly 100,000 people in nine high-burden African countries had received it by mid-August 2026.

The 35th Las Vegas Bowl puts an SEC team against a Big Ten, Big 12, ACC or Oregon State/Washington State opponent at 12:45 p.m. on 31 December, live on ESPN.

Phase 1 of Pure Water San Diego, a roughly $1.5 billion program, is due to start sending purified recycled water through Miramar Reservoir into the drinking supply near the end of 2026. It starts at about 7.5 million gallons a day and ramps to 30 million once the Morena Pump Station comes on line.

BYD's first European car plant in Szeged, Hungary will begin assembling the Dolphin Surf in the fourth quarter of 2026, a year later than the end-2025 start BYD had promised.

ENGI's fourth season of the fantasy-parody KonoSuba brings Kazuma's disaster party back for another run, slated for 2027 after being confirmed at the franchise's tenth-anniversary livestream.

Norway's plan to blast the world's first full-scale ship tunnel through the Stad peninsula has cleared its funding hurdles, with construction now set to begin in early 2027.

Lord of Mysteries Season 2, the "Faceless" arc, brings B.CMAY PICTURES' hit donghua back as Klein, now working as detective Sherlock Moriarty, runs into spies and ancient ruins.

Production I.G's short Haikyu!! TV special covers the Spring High quarterfinal between Bokuto's Fukurodani Academy and Kiryu's Mujinazaka High, the match playing out at the same time as Karasuno's game against Kamomedai.

Science SARU's third season of Dan Da Dan, adapting Yukinobu Tatsu's occult-meets-alien action comedy manga, is set to premiere in 2027.

Nexus's The Eminence in Shadow: Lost Echoes, a theatrical sequel to the anime's second season based on Daisuke Aizawa's light novels, is set to open in Japan in 2027.

Production I.G's second and final Haikyu!! Final film sends Karasuno's Shoyo Hinata past the player who inspired him, closing the volleyball saga in Japanese theaters in 2027.