Tim De Chant

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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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What’s getting funded in climate tech: Managing ESG data, supplying fusion startups and removing carbon

Despite hints of a slowdown, investors still appear to be enamored with the climate tech world. Just ask those of us who...
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Collaborative Fund and the Wyss Institute partner to bridge the climate tech ‘valley of death’

For pretty much every startup, there’s a perilous period that occurs after things are up and running but the money isn’t...
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Executives say they’re committed to ESG, but data shows otherwise

Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives took the business world by storm. Th...
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From seed to Series A in 7 months: Why and how Odyssey Energy Solutions moved quickly

Want a sneak peek at the electrical grid of the future? Don’t look to the U.S., Europe or China. Instead, head to Nigeri...
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Quilt raises $9M seed round to become the Nest of heat pumps

Last year, Americans bought more heat pumps than gas furnaces, a striking split that’s likely to widen in the coming yea...
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Despite a rocky start, climate tech is in a good position to tackle the rest of 2023

Last year, climate tech seemed to be invincible while the venture capital and startup worlds were fretting about a downt...
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Bend is taking on Brex and Ramp with a green twist and a $2.5M seed round

When the SEC announced that it planned to require companies under its purview to disclose their climate-related risks an...
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Former NBA star Rick Fox’s startup gets $10M pre-seed for concrete that removes CO2

No doubt that Rick Fox has had plenty of emotional moments in his life. There was the birth of his children, of course, ...
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Without a single euro changing hands, Irish nonprofit is helping to reinvent the grid

Every day, strong gusts off the North Atlantic buffet hundreds of wind farms in Ireland, generating so much energy that ...
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How much does your company pollute? CarbonChain gets $10M Series A to help answer that.

Everything you buy and every service you pay for pollutes. In the case of a coffee, it might be a little. In the case of...
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Why a fast-growing climate tech startup raised its second Series B in 13 months

Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. In...
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Climate tech VC firm closes $300M fund after LPs push for broader investment opportunities

Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter, but don’t count it out just yet. Amid a backdrop of depressi...
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Noya pivots to embrace modular direct air capture, lands $11M Series A

Noya’s pitch a few years ago was pretty straightforward: lower the cost of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
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What the new EPA tailpipe regulations mean for investors

If there was any question as to whether the Biden administration is serious about the electrification of the U.S. econom...
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NovoNutrients wants to turn CO2 into protein

We’ve spent the last century and a half pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and it’s clear that we’ll have to sp...
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Casper co-founders want to sell you another box. This time, it’s a battery.

A few years ago, mattress company Casper’s co-founders Philip Krim and Jeff Chapin were banging their heads agains...
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