IT総合 A decade after the bubble burst, 5 climate tech investors explain why they’re all in
Climate tech has been one of the biggest successes of the last few years. By 2025, investors are expected to sink $1.5 t...
Tim De Chant
IT総合 IT総合 Dual-chemistry battery tech could push BMW’s iX EV to 600-mile range
Battery startup Our Next Energy (ONE) and BMW today said the carmaker’s prototype of its flagship EV, iX, will run...
IT総合 Here’s why climate tech may avoid repeating clean tech’s failures
About a decade ago, the clean tech boom went bust. Industry darlings were dropping like flies. Solyndra, most famously, ...
IT総合 Solid Power’s pilot production line brings road-tripping solid-state batteries closer to reality
Solid Power, a solid-state battery company, today unveiled a pilot production line for EV-sized cells that will be sent ...
IT総合 US battery production enters new era as Solid Power’s pilot production line debuts
Solid Power’s new pilot line is a groundbreaking moment in the march toward solid-state batteries for electric vehicles....
IT総合 Biden admin policy change could tip solar and wind projects into profitability
There’s an idea floating in the ether (or at least in my ether) that there’s enough sunny federal land in Nevada to powe...
IT総合 The US is about to get serious about EVs
For most of the last decade, Americans largely ignored electric vehicles. Some brands sold decent numbers, like the Chev...
IT総合 Diesel is a horrible thing for an economy to depend on
Want to bring inflation to heel? There’s no single, simple fix, of course, or we would have done it already. But a good ...
IT総合 A single question changed how Singularity viewed its market
When Wenbo Shi started Singularity Energy, a carbon intelligence platform that today raised a $4.5 million seed round, h...
IT総合 Singularity Energy raises $4.5 million seed round to decarbonize the grid
Singularity Energy, a SaaS platform that reports on carbon emissions for the electricity grid, has closed a $4.5 million...
IT総合 Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage
The next bottleneck in lithium-ion battery supplies isn’t cobalt, even though China has a stranglehold on the market, an...
IT総合 Lithium-silicon batteries get vote of confidence with Sila’s Mercedes deal
For years, scientists and engineers predicted that lithium-ion batteries would get a boost if they could just add more s...
IT総合 Electric Mercedes G-Class will go the distance with Sila’s energy-dense silicon anodes
Mercedes-Benz announced today that Sila’s energy-dense silicon anode is slated for an extended-range version of the elec...
IT総合 Ballooning US EV registrations raise opportunities for startups
Electric vehicle volumes are soaring in the U.S. — with registrations up 60% in the first quarter of the year — even as ...
IT総合 Can carbon capture startup Carbon Clean deliver on its cost claims?
Startup Carbon Clean announced earlier this week that it raised $150 million in a Series C that provides it with a sizab...
IT総合 Investors reward battery startup SES for losing money (but not too much)
It appears battery startup SES’ investors are quite happy with its first earnings report. The company went public ...
IT総合 Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks
There’s an open secret in the battery startup world — everyone is pitching their cells as the ones to spur consumers to ...
IT総合 Lithium-ion recycler Li-Cycle lands $200 million to power future EVs
Metals and fossil fuels behemoth Glencore is pumping $200 million into battery recycler Li-Cycle as part of a larger, sy...
IT総合 Batteries have become VC and PE’s most electric investment opportunity
For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology...