TechCrunch: Climate

MAY 23, 2024

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 16, 2023

General Motors is leading a $60 million Series B round into Mitra Chem, a battery materials startup promising to help build more affordable and accessible EV batteries for future GM vehicles. Battery innovations are crucial for automakers seeking to lower electric vehicle costs and promote widespread consumer adoption.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping apps. While flying under the radar for three years, the London-based startup tells TechCrunch that it has raised about $2.9 They […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. In response, a vibrant ecosystem of sustainability-oriented startups, investors and incubators is taking shape in India today.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. American Battery Technology Company received two contracts from the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our climatetech community during some of the hottest days of the summer in Q3 2023, working on breakthroughs such as reliable energy storage , detection of green-hydrogen gas leaks , and carbon-footprint reductions in the trucking industry.

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Charged

AUGUST 10, 2022

Iberdrola , a Spanish electric utility, plans to invest in the solid-state battery startup Basquevolt via its start-up program PERSEO. The company’s long-term goals are to start producing battery cells in 2027 and to achieve a 10 GWh annual capacity.

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Charged

JUNE 16, 2022

Lunaz Applied Technologies, a British EV startup known for electrifying classic cars, has revealed a garbage truck with a number of driver-friendly features and a swappable battery pack that’s designed to be replaced in 10 minutes. Object detection technology highlights cyclists, pedestrians and other hazards.

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Charged

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You work for an electric vehicle startup company, designing the Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) test system. You’re also working on the electronic control unit (ECU), which houses the EV batteries. Sponsored by Pickering interfaces. Imagine the challenge. You’re going to need a very flexible and scalable system.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture. AGCO is testing the battery-powered Fendt e100 Vario for a range of farming and municipal applications. "It Billed as the first fully electric driver-optional tractor, the Monarch will be available in fall 2021 at a pricetag starting at $50,000. Heather Clancy.

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TechCrunch: Climate

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA. The two companies announced Thursday that Redwood Materials will supply Toyota with cathode material and anode copper foil for battery cells produced at the automaker’s $13.9

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

A project is being run between the municipality of Hague and Dutch grid operator Stedin to develop a battery-powered smart beach electric grid to power the coast of Scheveningen. The new beach battery has a capacity of 360kWh and can power a beach pavilion for two days. Innovation is key to addressing this challenge.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021. These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. Arrival, a five-year-old London-based startup, is establishing a presence in the U.S. Mike De Socio.

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Charged

APRIL 3, 2024

ACEL Power , a startup founded in 2021, has added two offerings to its lineup of electric outboard motors. All of ACEL’s motors are integrated with proprietary battery packs and battery management system, digital throttle, smart charger, smart key and a centralized computer with touchscreen.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Janus Electric, a startup based in New South Wales, Australia, has partnered with mining giant OZ Minerals and logistics provider Qube to trial an electric triple road train. It sports 620 kWh of battery capacity and a Volvo 12-speed gearbox. It’s the heaviest-rated on-road electric truck in the world.” “For

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Charged

MARCH 12, 2021

EV startup Canoo has announced plans for an electric pickup truck. It includes a six-foot truck bed that can extend to a fully enclosed eight feet, a front cargo storage area and a fold-down worktable with electrical outlets, flip-down side tables and a hidden step. Canoo plans to build the pickup in a US “microfactory.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

The time for electric trucks and buses is now. Despite the pandemic, sales of electric trucks and buses are expected to surge in the United States and Canada over the next couple of years. Here are just a few from the past couple of weeks: General Motors is making an electric van to rival Tesla. Electric Vehicles.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Solid-state battery technology is widely expected to be the next big thing in the EV world, as it promises higher energy density, lower cost and more safety than current Li-ion designs. SEE ALSO – Solid-state battery tech: What’s close to commercialization, and what’s still years away? That’s a fact. Source: SlashGear

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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. My one pager attached.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Chinese electric vehicle company Nio and energy giant Shell have inked a deal which will see the partners work together on developing a network of 'battery swap stations' in China and Europe. The partners are aiming to install 100 battery swapping stations in China by 2025 and construct and operate pilot stations in Europe by 2022.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The startup has developed software for lithium-ion batteries to endow them with either faster charging speeds or greater longevity.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 12, 2020

based startup is building its first U.S. microfactory in South Carolina to make as many as 1,000 battery-powered buses per year.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. Its vehicle and battery production also will be carbon-neutral, using clean energy.

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Charged

MAY 22, 2023

Volvo has invested in bidirectional EV charging startup dcbel. Energy from an EV’s battery can be used to power a home during an outage, to save on utility costs during peak hours, or (theoretically) to earn money from the local utility for providing grid services.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Verdox raised $80M for its electric carbon capture technology, including from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Energy Toolbase , in partnership with Tantalus Systems, deployed an industry-leading commercial microgrid project that includes solar panels and battery storage in Riverdale, CA.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our community Q4 2023, working on innovations as diverse as low-emission steel production, hydrogen electrolyzers, and lightweight, flexible solar panels. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup was previously a Greentown Go Energize 2022 participant.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Tesla-backed start-up ZOLA Electric deployed a new solar and battery system to power two villages in Africa. The new system is known as INFINITY and generates sufficient power to power two villages with over 1,000 homes. The system will also supply power to schools and businesses in the villages.

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Charged

JULY 22, 2022

But what if the trailer had its own electric powertrain? That’s the idea behind the first product to be launched by Lightship Energy , a startup created by a group of former Tesla employees. Lightship Energy recently closed a $23-million Series A funding round, and plans to use the cash to develop its first working prototype.

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Charged

APRIL 6, 2022

WattEV has ordered 50 Volvo VNR Class 8 electric trucks to launch its Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) model in California. WattEV’s TaaS model offers shippers and carriers access to battery-electric trucks at a per-mile rate, including charging, that the company says is on par with the total cost of operating diesel trucks.

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Charged

AUGUST 14, 2020

After at least a year in stealth mode, French startup Verkor has announced plans to build a battery gigafactory in France. The new company says it will take a “fast follower” approach, using established Li-ion technology, rather than trying to develop new battery chemistries or formulas. Source: Recharge , Verkor.

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Charged

JANUARY 16, 2024

As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. Several next-generation battery-electric trucks, with increased driving range, are coming to the US this year, following their European debuts. However, the picture for 2024 looks brighter.

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Charged

JANUARY 30, 2024

Trucking firms are caught in a bit of a bind—emissions regulations are tightening, but electric heavy-duty trucks come with high upfront costs. At Revoy’s swapping station in Dallas, the Revoy EV, with a pre-charged battery, is attached between a tractor and a semi-trailer.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2022 cohort of five climatetech startups has been working closely with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”) and the M-Lab Companies to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize supply-chain-decarbonization solutions.

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Charged

JULY 8, 2020

We partner with most of the top 10 EV battery manufacturers to help build more than one million electric vehicles on the road today. We recently worked with a potential customer who had the desire to dispense an adhesive filled with jagged, tabular shaped fillers, to best assemble a new version of their own battery packs.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

Eos Energy Storage spent 12 years building up a technology it says can rival the dominant lithium-ion batteries for storing grid power. Similar startups ran out of cash and fell by the wayside, but Eos has survived, and now plans to leave venture capital behind and enter public markets via merger with a shell company.

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