Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  In deals, ~$400M for electric scooters and 3 mega $100M+ rounds for geothermal, solid flow batteries, and rural minigrids.  The US recently made a couple moves on graphite and nickel, key inputs in EV and other batteries.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. This review will ensure we understand the potential impacts of a wide range of new transport modes such as e-scooters, helping to properly inform any decisions on legalisation.

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Transportation Scooters Electric vehicle Law 41

Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Middling government action Also, one crosscutting theme that is hard to avoid is the significant increase in new climate tech investment funds. I think it reflects the inflection point we are currently at with vehicle electrification. Let’s look at these one by one. it’s clearly in vogue.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electric bike and scooter company Lime has unveiled plans to achieve net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2030 by transitioning its operations to clean energy, investing in sustainable manufacturing and technologies, and switching its operations fleet to electric vehicles (EVs).

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Scooters Carbon-negative Transportation Pollution 36

Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Sales of all cars set for bumpy road in 2020, but as costs fall electric vehicles sales expected to continue growing after Covid-19. Sales of electric passenger vehicles are set to fall 18 per cent in 2020 to a total of 1.7 million barrels a day by 2040.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.

Energy Monitor 61

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 61

Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

October Cleantech Roundup: Fires, Autonomous Shuttle Buses, Long-Duration Energy Storage Investments, and More! Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights cleantech news and offers perspective on industry, technology, policy, and investing. of the fund, so unlikely to be a big factor in near-term fund performance either way).

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Energy Energy Scooters Investment 40

AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The decade-long goal could result in millions of electric vehicles purchased for ride-hailing operations, encourage greater electric vehicle charging deployments and motivate stronger city, state and federal policies that could make EVs more economical. Lyft recently announced a first-quarter loss of $85.2

Electric vehicle 28

Electric vehicle Policy Electricity Scooters 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The decade-long goal could result in millions of electric vehicles purchased for ride-hailing operations, encourage greater electric vehicle charging deployments and motivate stronger city, state and federal policies that could make EVs more economical. Lyft recently announced a first-quarter loss of $85.2

Electric vehicle 28

Electric vehicle Policy Electricity Scooters 28

Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to a recent study by the World Resources Institute , only a single one of these projects is currently on track to meet the goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement: light-duty electric vehicle sales. His company operates some 60 electric motorcycle taxis, locally known as boda-bodas , on the roads in Nairobi.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Scooters Batteries 114

Clean Energy Trust

JULY 31, 2019

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, from policy changes to technology updates and investment news. Link Scooter companies continue to receive large investments , with European companies Wind and Dott both raising at least $30 million in Series A rounds. Link (Wind).

Scooters 40

Scooters Climate change Natural gas Investment 40

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

He highlighted how the West Midlands once pioneered the replacement of charcoal with coke in industrial processes, and is now leading a new industrial revolution through world class modular home, battery, and electric vehicle innovation. Because they are. "We

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Government Packaging Aviation Climate change 87

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

And a new Transport Bill is expected to offer fresh legislation to boost e-scooter safety, delayed legislation on HS2, and plans to establish a new railway supervisory body called Great British Railways. A major economic storm is brewing, yet still Sunak warned against borrowing more to fund public spending, according to The Times.

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Government Investment Hydrogen Energy 40

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million battery-electric vehicle (EV) sales by the start of 2021—a prediction seen by many as overly optimistic. In fact, Bloomberg Green expects this growth to continue with more than 10 million plug-in vehicle sales this year—up from 6.6 1) Increased need to secure raw materials for EV batteries. million in 2020.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Scooters Batteries 132

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

Orlandi is proud of being an Italian company with Italy having a phenomenal number of motorcycle and scooter riders. GPR offers exhaust systems for more than 1200 models of scooters and motorcycles. Motorcycles and sustainability According to Orlandi, electric vehicles are not a better environmental solution than motorcycles. “We

Recycling 28

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Link A gigantic battery procurement is underway in California.

Scooters 52

Scooters Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

To help further accelerate the market for electric vehicles, a new regulatory regime for road vehicle CO2 emissions is to be consulted on, including "the possible introduction" of a zero emission vehicle mandate. The plan also sets out a stated aim to deliver a "world class cycling and walking network in England by 2040".

Transportation 86

Transportation Government Aviation Fossil fuels 86

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing Top Topics Large oil and gas and utility companies are making net-zero pledges , as they look to get ahead of consumer and regulatory trends. One thing is clear: Bezos is a polarizing figure.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 8, 2021

That reconciliation bill is yet to be drafted, but one can assume it will expand incentives for renewables (which enjoy broad support) and carbon capture (which is likely to be a priority for West Virginia Senator Manchin, a pivotal vote); larger and more flexible electric vehicle tax credits are likely as well.

Carbon 52

Carbon Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Scooters 52

Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 9, 2020

SPACs are indeed creating more opportunities for businesses to go public right now, whereas these other changes are changing who is able to invest in startups?—?and and likely pulling in new investment at the pre-seed and seed stage. to push for a 2030 EV mandate for new vehicle sales.

Scooters 52

Scooters Natural gas Electric vehicle Startups 52

Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Credit: Tesla Tesla and the Electric Vehicle Transition Tesla is seemingly always in the news, from its financial struggles to Elon Musk violating securities law, to a growing list of positives and successes (including scaling up Model III production). In 2019, 79% of the battery EVs sold in the US were made by Tesla.

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Scooters Policy Climate change Electric vehicle 52

CleanTechnica

APRIL 15, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 11, 2024

Today I presented again to a large Indian audience, hosted by the India Smart Grid Forum. The theme was Electrify Everything Everywhere All At Once. This was within the frame of the presentation I gave at the India Smart Utility Week on March 14th. In honor of the start of.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 17, 2023

Designers are thinking through the challenges and opportunities that modern lightweight electric motors and batteries provide in micromobility.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 23, 2023

Maybe there will be an interesting book about Aptera after it inevitably fails. More likely it would be a moderately interesting chapter in a book about really bad ideas

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 22, 2022

Suzuki will build a new electric vehicle factory in India.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 23, 2021

Li-Cycle, which is focused on providing customer-centric, end-of-life solutions for lithium-ion batteries while also creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials, has announced a partnership with Helbiz.

Recycling 0

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Motorcycle taxis are the most preferred mode of last-mile connectivity in East Africa. Unfortunately, motorcycle taxis in Africa's urban cities are one of the main sources of pollution and chaos on the roads.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 11, 2020

Vanderbijlpark-based Electronia is selling Energica electric superbikes in South Africa. The Modena- (Italy) based Energica is also the sole manufacturer in the Moto E Championship. Electronia is bringing the 21.5

Africa 0

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CleanTechnica

MAY 28, 2020

Yesterday we were all surprised to learn that Etergo has been acquired by the Indian company Ola. At the time, all we had was a vague press release from Ola that only stated it had acquired Etergo and the two companies looked forward to working together.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 23, 2020

Both Norway and Alberta, Canada are economies that gain huge profits from selling oil. They have huge natural reserves of it and make ginormous profits from feeding our "need" for oil powered transportation.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Siemens Stiftung Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Powering Agriculture, and Wetu recently organized an electric mobility conference in Kisumu, Kenya.

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