Charged

MAY 4, 2023

In 2022, Daimler Truck North America, NextEra Energy Resources and BlackRock Alternatives formed a joint venture called Greenlane to develop a US public EV charging and hydrogen fueling network for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.

North America 109

North America Electricity Hydrogen Demand 109

Charged

AUGUST 24, 2023

The new factory will expand production capacity of Kreisel Electric products to serve the off-highway market in North America. Kreisel, which John Deere acquired in 2022, produces battery technology for e-mobility and stationary systems as well as DC fast charging solutions.

Batteries 87

Batteries North America HVAC Fossil fuels 87

Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Cleartrace announced a $20M financing round , from several strategic investors, including Greentown partner EDF Energy North America. Energy Dome closed an $11M convertible round to accelerate the commercial development of its CO 2 battery. Department of Energy’s Battery Recycling Prize. Awards + Recognition.

Startups 98

Startups Plastics Innovation North America 98

TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The onshoring of battery factories in the U.S. The CAD $1.2

Batteries 92

Batteries North America Lithium Startups 92

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When the history books tell the story of how society took climate action to decarbonize our economy and build a cleaner world for society, 2022 will have a headlining role in that narrative! And we couldn’t be more proud of our 200 members’ hard work and accomplishments throughout 2022. Partnerships + Deployments.

Startups 104

Startups North America Batteries Carbon 104

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. LineVision , which provides overhead line monitoring for electric utilities, raised a $33M Series C.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Charged

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The first blitz was the 12 SUVs, and the second is a plan to expand its existing electrified line-up to 10 models by 2022. However, it’s certain that Hyundai has several electrified models in the pipeline, and that these will cover all the powertrain possibilities, from hybrid to pure electric. Source: Hyundai via SlashGear.

North America 105

North America Batteries Electricity 105

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EIS, a distributor of electrical process materials and components in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Power Grid Supply (PGS), a supplier of transformer parts and components for the production, repair, and remanufacturing of transformers.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Polyphase Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 52

Charged

MAY 11, 2022

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck may be the first real mass-market electric vehicle sold in the US. Ford rolled out a full team of managers and executives who’d created its first electric pickup, but the truck itself was the focus for dozens of reporters, analysts and reviewers. The F-150 Lightning is good.

Energy Monitor 134

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 134

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

Hawaiian Electric this week revealed the full list of winners from its second large-scale procurement of energy storage and renewables for the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. based energy company AES, which through its Fluence joint venture with Siemens has developed the world’s largest fleet of grid-scale batteries.

North America 211

North America Energy Energy Electricity 211

Charged

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Stellantis and LG Energy Solution have agreed to form a joint venture that will produce battery cells and modules for North America at a new production facility. Groundbreaking is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2022, and production should start by the first quarter of 2024.

Batteries 104

Batteries North America Electric vehicle Energy 104

The Verge: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

Image: GM General Motors’ initial new home energy products are now available to purchase, including the equipment necessary to turn your GM-made electric vehicle into a mobile power generator for your home. Right now, GM only has one electric vehicle that’s capable of bidirectional charging: the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST.

Home Energy Monitoring 111

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Electric vehicle 111

Charged

JANUARY 10, 2024

As explained in a 2022 Charged feature article , wireless charging is not just about convenience—deployed intelligently, it can enable commercial fleets to deliver the same service with smaller EV batteries, lower vehicle costs, and significantly extend battery life.

North America 103

North America Patents Demand Batteries 103

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As inverter-based resources like wind turbines, solar photovoltaic, and battery energy storage systems are introduced to the grid, the associated risks are becoming more apparent. These instances were the first “significant” events involving battery storage systems, NERC said. Have you read?

Solar Energy Monitor 105

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Batteries 105

Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The startup aims to boost the North American battery supply chain by producing an iron-based cathode. Iron-based battery chemistries have long dominated the market in China, while US and European automakers have mostly used nickel-based chemistries. We see the same happening right now.

Startups 118

Startups Batteries North America Patents 118

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Lululemon has signed a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement to achieve 100% renewable electricity for its North American operations. The 15-megawatt agreement with Enel Green Power North America will provide the athletic apparel company with renewable energy from the Azure Sky Wind and Storage project in Texas.

North America 96

North America Electricity Retail Climate change 96

Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

and Houston, Texas, May 24, 2022 — Decarbonizing supply chains is critical to reducing emissions from the manufacturing sector and beyond. More specifically, Go Make 2022 is interested in solutions across supply chain management; packaging products and materials; alternative foods and ingredients; and green fleets and battery management.

Startups 98

Startups North America Incubators Incubators 98

Charged

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Lion Electric Company (NYSE: LEV), a manufacturer of all-electric Class 5 to Class 8 commercial urban trucks and buses, has secured an order for two electric trucks from Vermont utility Green Mountain Power—a Lion8 bucket truck for line crews and a Lion6 stake-body truck for electrical maintenance field crews.

Electricity 109

Electricity Fossil fuels North America Logging 109

Charged

JANUARY 14, 2022

In an independent energy efficiency test with a fully loaded heavy-duty electric Volvo truck in Germany, the truck exceeded its official range, and used 50% less energy than its diesel counterpart. The tested truck was a Volvo FH Electric, which has a gross combination weight of 40 tons, a 540 kWh battery pack and continuous power of 490 kW.

Electricity 138

Electricity North America Energy Energy 138

Charged

JULY 19, 2021

New CEO Toshihiro Mibe has announced that his company hopes to go all-electric by 2040. In 2020, the company partnered with GM to develop two new EVs based on GM’s Ultium batteries. Honda has already announced plans to sell only electrified vehicles in Europe by 2022, and to go all-electric in North America by 2040.

Electricity 143

Electricity North America Fossil fuels Europe 143

Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

EDF Renewables North America, along with NV Energy, McCarthy Building Companies and the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, has celebrated the completion of the Arrow Canyon Solar+Storage Project. The project comprises 621,000 high efficiency bifacial solar photovoltaic modules in conjunction with 564 battery segments.

Solar Energy Monitor 111

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 111

Charged

MARCH 4, 2020

General Motors opened the doors of its Design Center Wednesday to show off a promised lineup of future electric vehicles to be sold in North America by Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, and Buick—a dozen vehicles all told, part of the 20 new EVs by 2023 it promised more than two years ago. and Canada.

Batteries 138

Batteries North America Electric vehicle Electricity 138

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

NextEra Energy, North America’s leading wind and solar generator, is combing through its base of existing solar facilities with an eye to retroactively adding batteries, as it adopts a more “aggressive” view on the falling cost of energy storage. Near-firm" renewable power.

Batteries 245

Batteries North America Energy Energy 245

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

s new electric vehicle tax credit requiring that EVs and their batteries be made in North America, Canada’s EV battery supply chain is in the spotlight. If Canada plays its cards right, a domestic EV battery supply chain could support up to 250,000 jobs by 2030 and add $48 billion to the Canadian economy annually.

Batteries 121

Batteries Electric vehicle North America Investment 121

Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Volvo Trucks plans to offer a complete range of all-electric heavy-duty trucks in Europe, starting in 2021. Sales will begin next year, and volume production will start in 2022. These trucks will have a gross combination weight of up to 44 tonnes, and a range of up to 300 km, depending on battery configuration.

Europe 110

Europe Electricity North America Transportation 110

Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Charged has been reporting on electric trucks for a decade, but the electrification of real-world fleets has been frustratingly slow, and several would-be e-truck builders have gone bust waiting for fleet operators to conduct years-long pilots. Will 2021 be the year of the electric truck?

Electricity 128

Electricity North America Hydrogen Batteries 128

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The accelerator program, which specializes in advancing startup-corporate partnerships with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) and the M-Lab Companies, welcomes five startups working on emissions-reducing innovations for industrial supply-chain applications. Asahi Kasei America Inc., USA, ENEOS Americas Inc., Somerville, Mass.

Startups 52

Startups North America Incubators Incubators 52

Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of BrightDrop.

Electricity 142

Electricity Batteries Electric vehicle Retail 142

Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Electric vehicles now make up 9% of new car sales in Canada. and Quebec, the market share is even higher, with electric vehicles making up around 20% and 14% of new cars sold in each province, respectively. and Europe and 37% to 45% in China, depending largely on the emissions intensity of the electricity used to charge the vehicle.

Electric vehicle 94

Electric vehicle Electricity Batteries Recycling 94

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. EV battery visibility.

Recycling 105

Recycling Recycling Batteries Blockchain 105

Charged

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Passat-sized battery-electric sedan will be sold in North America, Europe, and China. 7, the next new model in its growing range of “ID” battery-electric models today, in an event held before the doors of the huge Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas open to the public Thursday. The new ID.7

North America 114

North America Europe Batteries Electricity 114

Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Li-Cycle, the developer of a novel battery recycling system , has announced an agreement with Ultium Cells, a joint venture of GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle up to 100% of the scrap generated by battery cell manufacturing at Ultium’s Lordstown, Ohio mega-factory. When fully operational in 2022, the $2.3-billion

Recycling 78

Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 78

Charged

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Thursday the company is accelerating its electric-vehicle efforts, pulling forward the schedule on many future launches, and expanding the number of EV models it sells globally to 30 by the end of 2025—a larger number than the dozen future EVs shown to journalists in a no-cameras presentation in March.

Investment 128

Investment Electricity Electric vehicle North America 128

Charged

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Electrified Charging Corridor Project has scored $2 million in funding from the California Energy Commission, and is expected to get underway in 2022. All five stations should be online by the end of 2023. Source: Volvo Trucks.

North America 117

North America Batteries Construction Electricity 117

Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. However, heavy-duty electric trucks from traditional makers have started to hit the market. Publicity magnet Tesla said it delivered its first battery-electric Semi tractor on December 1. Driving style also matters.

Electricity 134

Electricity Batteries North America Carbon 134

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Batteries are evolving. No longer just something that needs changing in your TV remote, batteries are fast becoming the engines of the global economy. In a decade’s time, a battery will likely power your car or the electricity grid that lights your home. Perhaps the biggest opportunity lies in electric vehicles.

Batteries 76

Batteries Electric vehicle Policy Lithium 76

Charged

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The name isn’t its own brand; the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will be sold as a model line within the GMC luxury truck brand.

Electricity 109

Electricity North America Automotive Batteries 109