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Unfavorable times for the electric scooter industry

AGreenLiving

Once billed as an environmentally-friendly and enterprising venture, the electric scooter-sharing micromobility business has not lived up to the promising hype but is now looking dismal. Could this be the end for e-scooters? Related: We love electric scooters — but is the Bird trend actually bad for the environment?

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August Cleantech Roundup: Energy Storage is Growing, Cleantech Startup are Fundraising, and…

Clean Energy Trust

August Cleantech Roundup: Energy Storage is Growing, Cleantech Startup are Fundraising, and Scooters are Driving Themselves Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology policy, and investing. Link If the Scooter Rides Itself, What Am I Here For?

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The Future of Transportation is Green: A Pollution-Free World

The Environmental Blog

Unfortunately, our current transportation systems don’t seem to have a path to a pollution-free world. In fact, the transportation sector remains to be one of the most polluting bodies we have right now. They can get you to nearby places without having any carbon emissions.

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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

Stripe’s support for carbon removal companies has been an innovative approach; later in the year we touched on some of the lessons learned from the carbon removal purchases Microsoft and Stripe has undertaken. this included the First Movers Coalition and Breakthrough Catalyst , but they weren’t the only ones making moves.

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A wave of electric workhorses is coming

GreenBiz

Electrifying these commercial vehicles will be potentially even more important than passenger vehicles for reducing carbon emissions and for cleaning up local air pollution. Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way.

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BNEF Electric Vehicle Outlook: Six key lessons for road transport's pursuit of net zero

Business Green

Sales continue to surge in key markets, while scores of producers and users of cars, buses, trucks, and even scooters are now pushing towards ridding their operations of fossil fuel vehicles altogether. No room - nor time - for complacency on the EV push. More on that later.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.