Over the weekend, Tesla showed off its latest gadget: a solar trailer, featuring extendable panels, a satellite internet terminal and even a lick of matte-black paint. Tesla may have designed […]
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Back to news home4 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 emissions may not have been unexpected, but it was still a bombshell. Not only […]
Micropyramid lenses triple the light that hits solar panels
Stacks of teeny lenses that look like inverted pyramids could juice up solar panels, helping them capture more light from any angle on both sunny and overcast days. Solar panels […]
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-free energy — a $160 million Series C round and a […]
‘How doomed are we?’ and more questions for a climate expert
Thanks in no small part to the fossil-fueled cult of obstructionism, we’re on track to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius global-warming threshold laid out in the 2016 Paris Agreement. […]
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 and investments, the ongoing market downturn is threatening to dim […]
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 trillion to $2 trillion annually into a wide […]
Dual-chemistry battery tech could push BMW’s iX EV to 600-mile range
Startup Our Next Energy is behind the energy storage tech Tim De Chant 8 hours Battery startup Our Next Energy (ONE) and BMW today said the carmaker’s prototype of its flagship […]
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, shut down after taking a $500 million loan from the U.S. […]
Good Capital, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon back India’s SolarSquare
Even as India is increasingly adding generation capacity from solar power, setting examples for many other developing nations, there’s a large population of the South Asian nation that is yet […]