Tim De Chant

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The White House’s efforts to combat climate change have sparked a tech arms race with the EU

For years, the U.S. lagged behind much of the rest of the world when it came to climate action. The European Union and i...
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Fun while it lasted: The room-temperature superconductor claim is probably bunk

It’s been a fun few weeks. The internet — and more than a few scientists — got their hopes up a couple weeks ago w...
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Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find its way into kitchens?

Feeding table scraps to chickens isn’t a new idea. But then again, neither were smoke detectors when Matt Rogers co-foun...
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Scientists repeat breakthrough fusion experiment, netting more power than before

It wasn’t a fluke: Researchers at a Department of Energy (DOE) lab have repeated their breakthrough fusion power experim...
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What if room temperature superconductors were real?

Hope springs eternal. For decades, there have been claims that researchers have created room-temperature superconductors...
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Elon Musk is probably right about one thing

It’s become an internet pastime to point out all the things that Elon Musk is wrong about and all the ways he’s wrong ab...
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Can we trust automakers to build an EV charging network that rivals Tesla’s Supercharger?

Automakers appear to have had an awakening last week: Electric vehicles are the future, and if they want to continue sel...
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Flipturn hauls in $4.5M seed funding to help trucking fleets electrify for less

Charging an electric vehicle on a road trip these days can be challenging, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what fleet ma...
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EV.energy snags $33M Series B to help utilities save billions on grid upgrades

One of the many benefits of electric vehicles is waking up to a full charge. Weekday commutes and weekend errands don’t ...
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Voltpost raises $3.6M seed round to bring EV charging to the curbside

For many American car owners, on-street parking is their only option. When it comes time to buy an electric vehicle, “wh...
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Electric utilities are driving customers into the hands of startups

Imagine running a large public company — S&P 500 large — and telling some of your most promising customers that you ...
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A tale of two climate tech SPACs

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. We could g...
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Azolla Ventures hopes its new $239M climate fund will help founders take bigger risks

Who would have thought that venture capital just needed a little help from its friends in philanthropy to get its mojo b...
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Announcing the Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every indust...
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Tales of ESG’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Corporate executives might be making a lot of noise about ESG — some of it positive, some not — but when it comes to inv...
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Seven things every EV fast-charging network needs

People love their electric vehicles. In survey after survey, the vast majority of EV owners say that their next car will...
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Why automakers are rushing to adopt Tesla’s NACS plug and what it means to drivers

How did the North American electric vehicle market finally decide on a charging port? Gradually, then suddenly, to parap...
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Batteries beat oil and gas as AI startup pivots to critical minerals exploration

There’s been a lot of talk about how the energy transition could cost jobs in key sectors of the economy like oil and ga...
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Legacy automakers suffer another blow as Aston Martin spurns Mercedes-AMG’s electrified tech

Few places exemplify the peak of the internal combustion engine better than the Mercedes-AMG factory in Affalterbach, Ge...
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How Greenlyte is going from zero to 1,000 metric tons of captured CO2 in a year

In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t stopped burning fossil fuels. At this rate, someday soon we’ll probably ha...
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With $10T on the line, 6 fusion investors explain why they’re all in

Fusion power could be considered the quintessential venture capital bet: It’s expensive and risky, but the potential rew...
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Volkswagen’s breakthrough could spark a battery manufacturing gold rush

Inflation hasn’t been kind to batteries. After more than a decade of remarkably consistent declines in the price of lith...
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New guidance from the US Treasury could unleash billions in renewable energy investment

There is a “missing middle” in the market for renewable energy that won’t be missing for much longer. The U.S. Treasury ...
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Why every EV charging network combined can’t compete with Tesla

It’s no secret that the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles generally sucks. There are exceptions, of course: ...
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To boost greenhouse productivity, Skytree is using space station CO2 scrubbers

Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air isn’t rocket science — the technology is decades old — but one startup thinks that...
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Tesla’s Supercharger network will strain under the weight of GM and Ford deals

If Tesla wants to maintain its Supercharger network’s reputation, it’s got some work to do. The automaker has recently a...
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Investors take note: Wildfire smoke will spark a surge in East Coast climate tech startups

As smoke from Canadian wildfires has enveloped large swathes of the East Coast, millions of people have found themselves...
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Wisconsin has quietly become a hotbed of fusion power startups. Will it last?

Time for some quick word association: When you think of Wisconsin, what comes to mind? Probably not nuclear fusion. And ...
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Realta Fusion lights up with $9M seed for industrial heat led by Khosla Ventures

Fusion power is often said to harness the power of the sun, so why are we just trying to make electricity with it? That’...
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Three climate technologies every investor should have in their portfolio

Few fields are changing as quickly as climate tech. In the last five years, it’s undergone a radical transformation, blo...
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