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Greentown Go Move 2022 with BASF and Magna Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Automotive Industry Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

The accelerator program, which specializes in advancing startup-corporate partnerships with BASF and Magna, welcomes five startups working on emissions-reducing innovations for automotive manufacturing. Together, we have an opportunity to really make a sustainable impact on the automotive industry.”. Somerville, Mass.

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Renault breaks silos in the automotive industry to achieve circular goals

Business Green

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, auto shows have returned with a newfound focus on the inevitable electric future of the automotive industry, and this year's Paris Motor Show was no different. A new model for automotive circularity. What will it take to get to 'car-to-car' recycling?

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Former Volvo Trucks exec launches electric truck startup

Charged

The new company, which is located at a business incubation center in Fairlawn, Virginia, offers customized engineering and manufacturing expertise for electric trucks. TrovaCV will offer its industrial model and manufacturing capability to other commercial vehicle OEMs, and also develop its own fully electric vehicle.

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GM, Ford and Google Nest launch a virtual power plant partnership

Smart Energy International

A growing VPP market also means revenue opportunities for hardware, software and energy-service companies in the buildings and automotive industries. The VP3 is based on institutional spinoffs in the electric sector space that were previously incubated by RMI, including the Clean Energy Buyers Association and the Energy Web Foundation.

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Greentown Go Make 2022 with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Supply Chain Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

Moment Energy (Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada): A clean, affordable, and reliable energy storage system built using second-life electric vehicle batteries. ? With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, TX, Greentown Labs is home to 200 startups and has supported more than 450 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged

SAE, the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the automotive field, is working to develop standards for EV charging error codes, and helping to build a curriculum to train the technicians to repair and maintain equipment. I incubated our work in sustainability. Frank Menchaca: Yeah.

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October 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Hertz & Tesla | Breakthrough Energy Fellows | Portfolio Company…

Clean Energy Trust

100,000 electric vehicles represents about 20% of Hertz’ total vehicle fleet. It’s also a different approach than rental car companies usually take, which is to buy base model vehicles at deep discounts. Renting a car is an extremely low-commitment way to test out an electric vehicle.

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