IT総合 Electrification is poised to turn school buses into money-making arbitrage assets
Across much of the U.S. this summer, as temperatures soared nearly every afternoon, air conditioners clicked on again an...
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IT総合 IT総合 Carbon Direct caps $60M round to coach companies on cutting emissions
When March 2020 rolled around, Jonathan Goldberg figured his new startup, Carbon Direct, was in for a long slog. The COV...
IT総合 Manchin’s ultimatum may turn the US into a battery powerhouse
“Build it or else.”
That was the gist of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s discussions with the automotive industry regarding E...
IT総合 3 views: Thoughts on Flow
When Marc Andreessen announced that he was sinking $350 million of a16z investors’ money into a new venture by WeW...
IT総合 Winners, losers abound as Inflation Reduction Act becomes law
President Joe Biden signed the climate-and-energy-focused Inflation Reduction Act into law today, a turn of events that ...
IT総合 Oil and gas didn’t benefit from investor largesse in recent years — but renewables did
With the climate-and-energy-focused Inflation Reduction Act expected to be signed by President Joe Biden this week, The ...
IT総合 Massive iron batteries could be key to displacing natural gas from the grid
With the impending passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, renewables are about to get a fresh jolt in the U.S. They’re ...
IT総合 BMW hedges its EV bet, appears poised to repeat mistakes of the past
For a while, it seemed like BMW had turned a corner with its EV strategy. Its i4 and iX have received stellar reviews, a...
IT総合 That big climate bill might actually make a difference
With the Senate passing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 last night, and House passage later this week all but assure...
IT総合 The road map for building the Uber of climate tech
The world needs a company willing to force governments to take action on climate change.
So far, climate tech has been t...
IT総合 Aurora Hydrogen raises $10M, but will its process decarbonize or facilitate tar sand exploitation?
A number of startups have cropped up to tackle the challenge of making hydrogen cheap and accessible for industrial user...
IT総合 Concert Bio lands seed round to fix hydroponic farming’s ‘dirty secret’
If the world wants to feed 10 billion people in 2050, it’ll need to find a better way to grow food.
Today, about half th...
IT総合 Will Volkswagen’s new CEO hamstring its EV push?
Volkswagen dropped a bombshell announcement late last week: Herbert Diess was out as CEO.
As a manager, Diess was contro...
IT総合 Here’s how Manchin and Schumer’s surprise 725-page bill could boost climate tech
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, pulled a fast one yesterday. After months of opposing major cli...
IT総合 Tesla, SpaceX alums stalk energy sector’s white whale with $2 million seed round
Hydrogen has been the decarbonized energy sector’s white whale.
Wildly abundant and highly versatile, it has long had th...
IT総合 While venture cools down around the world, climate startups are blazing hot
While the venture capital world slows, climate tech is bucking the trend as startups in the space continue to ink deals ...
IT総合 XFuel hopes to sail past biofuels’ troubled past with modular reactor design
Biofuels are the sirens of renewable energy, luring startups with enchanting promises of enormous markets, from aviation...
IT総合 Massive Facebook survey shows climate investors have more sway on public opinion than you think
Investors are used to using their acumen and financial heft to find companies that might disrupt markets. But it turns o...
IT総合 EV charging sucks because it hasn’t found the right business model
Electric vehicle charging has come a long way in recent years.
Until somewhat recently, road-tripping required lots of a...
IT総合 How one state’s aggressive climate policy could boost its economy
Rhode Island leaped ahead in the race to 100% renewable power last week as Governor Dan McKee signed a bill that would m...
IT総合 4 climate tech investors sound off on Supreme Court’s EPA ruling
This week’s Supreme Court decision to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas e...
IT総合 Supreme Court’s EPA ruling all but ensures the US won’t be competitive with China or Europe
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to effectively bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon p...
IT総合 US Supreme Court says EPA can’t regulate carbon pollution under Clean Air Act
In a move that by now surprises absolutely no one, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the Environmental Protection ...
IT総合 Disclose your Scope 3 emissions, you cowards
If you want the inside scoop on which companies are serious about addressing their carbon emissions and which aren’t, ta...
IT総合 Forests are a multitrillion-dollar asset. Vibrant Planet bets SaaS can save them
Vibrant Planet — which is creating an “operating system for forest restoration” — comes as a pleasant surprise, and not ...
IT総合 EV fleet management startup Synop steers its way to $10M seed round
When it comes to moving the transportation sector over to EVs, commercial fleets are probably some of the lowest hanging...
IT総合 Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS
For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year, she ...
IT総合 Zap Energy nets $160M Series C to advance its lightning-in-a-bottle fusion tech
Fusion startup Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-fre...
IT総合 Founders of recycling startups say the pandemic changed the investment game
For years, startups addressing the recycling crisis labored in relative anonymity. But for those who have stuck with it ...
IT総合 3 climate tech VCs share how they find, vet and support carbon-slashing startups
Few sectors have boomed in the past few years like climate tech has. But despite the burgeoning urgency driving interest...