IT総合 In race to electrify, Uber wants EVs that sacrifice top speeds, wheels
The clock is ticking for Uber to electrify its fleet, and the rideshare company wants automakers to help by designing ch...
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IT総合 IT総合 Wastewater recycler Membrion makes light work of removing heavy metals
PureTerra, a venture firm that aims to fund “disruptive water technologies,” is pumping millions into Membri...
IT総合 Sealed buys sensor startup InfiSense to fuel energy-saving services
Sealed built a business around predicting energy use and getting homeowners to ditch fossil fuels. So, naturally, the co...
IT総合 E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines
There’s still nothing quite like thumbing the pages of a real-life print magazine, but the latest evolution of E I...
IT総合 How companies at CES are taking on climate change (or pretending to)
I can’t get it out of my head: A honkingly big Caterpillar sign that read, “JOIN US AS WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD.” The dig...
IT総合 Samsung’s new washer captures microplastics from your dirty laundry
Unless you live in a natural fibers-only household, your laundry is likely exacerbating an environmental crisis with eac...
IT総合 Clean energy: Scrubbing wind turbines with robots nets Aerones $39M
Aerones, a robotics startup that scrubs and inspects wind turbines so humans don’t have to, secured $38.9 million ...
IT総合 Bird tanks on word that a Canadian company is saving its bacon
Scooter company Bird is certainly down, but it’s not yet out.
The five-year-old firm says that it and Bird Canad...
IT総合 Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid
Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality.
First, Tesl...
IT総合 Honda says VR is changing how it designs cars. You might not notice.
Honda is pulling away from a design practice that’s (literally) shaped auto making since the ’30s.
The $43 billio...
IT総合 Porsche, World Fund join $63M bet on batteries for electric planes
To help electric planes take off, German battery company Customcells says it landed about $63 million (€60 million) in S...
IT総合 America’s weak EV charging infrastructure might get a boost from dealers
As electric vehicles begin to take some market share, the nation’s charging infrastructure is playing catch-up.
S...
IT総合 American Battery Factory’s first ‘gigafactory’ inches toward reality
American Battery Factory’s big plan to build a bunch of, erm, American battery factories got a jolt Tuesday when T...
IT総合 Plant Prefab nabs $42M to crank out ‘extremely sustainable’ custom homes
Prefabricated homes always seem to be on the cusp of something big — solving housing shortages, tackling systemic waste ...
IT総合 Early Light Ventures plots a second, $15M fund for software ‘underdogs’
With a stated mission to “back the underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked,” early-stage investor Early...
IT総合 Fiat CEO teases subscriptions, car-sharing for all-electric 500e launch in US
Stellantis plans to “explore alternative business models,” such as subscriptions and car sharing, when it la...
IT総合 Lyft-backed plan to fund electric cars flops in California
California voters shot down a plan to make electric vehicles more affordable for some residents, dealing a blow to Lyft ...
IT総合 One of Canada’s biggest climate-tech backers pulls back
A prolific investor in climate-tech companies in Canada is back with a second fund for “low-carbon technologies...
IT総合 ‘Simply decarbonizing’ isn’t enough: Third Nature targets $35M fund
With a glitzy vision of tackling some of “the biggest planetary challenges,” Third Nature is out to raise $3...
IT総合 Ocean-climate VC Propeller launches with $100M to fund ‘tomorrow’s narwhals’
Propeller, a new climate-tech investor with a focus on the ocean, tells TechCrunch that it has hooked $100 million for i...
IT総合 Advanced Ionics teases electrolysis innovation ‘to clean up’ the filthy hydrogen business
Advanced Ionics, a climate-tech startup that hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is striving to drive down the price of gre...
IT総合 Reverion eyes commercial launch to draw more energy out of biogas
Born inside the Technical University of Munich, the engineers behind Reverion say they’ve had their heads down for...
IT総合 Marc Lore on ‘upsetting’ Diapers.com sale: ‘Investors got scared off by Amazon’s attack’
Way back in 2010, Marc Lore struck a more than half-a-billion dollar deal to sell Quidsi — the company behind Diapers.co...
IT総合 Royalty-backed Lightrock packs $834 million into its first climate fund
Lightrock, the London-based backer of neobank Niyo and “wood modification” company Kebony, has secured abo...
IT総合 Federal gig worker proposal tanks Uber, Lyft and DoorDash stocks
The stock prices of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash slid on Tuesday after the Department of Labor announced proposed changes to ...
IT総合 If it’s agtech, it’s climate change: How the crisis is shaping investors’ strategies
To state the (painfully) obvious: The fates of agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked.
The weather dicta...
IT総合 7 investors discuss how agtech can solve agriculture’s biggest problems
Climate change and geopolitical instability are wreaking havoc on agriculture. To gauge how VCs are responding to these ...
IT総合 It’s official, Elon Musk is buying Twitter
It sure looks like Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover is actually happening.
On Tuesday, representatives of...
IT総合 Drowning in trash: Google opens applications for circular-economy accelerator
Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. The effort ...
IT総合 Bird board backs new scooter boss
Micromobility company Bird is boosting its president, Shane Torchiana, to CEO status in a “long-planned” sha...