Climate

Sometime in 2024, maybe as early as February, half a dozen electric vehicle charging companies will face a reckoning. For years, they had little competition except for each other, which is to say, not much. Soon, though, they'll have to contend with Tesla's much-lauded Supercharger network.

A couple years ago, when the pandemic was still in full swing, Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser started making some investments in climate tech startups. They called their operation Climactic, and initially they placed bets using their own money. Both are experienced founders, operators and investors, bu

I have a confession to make: I don't usually follow the UN climate change conference proceedings until the very end. This year's COP28 was no different. Not because it was hosted by an oil and gas power, and not because neither President Biden nor the Pope attended. Rather,

The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments. One of the solutions is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which c

Congrats, we did it! Solar and wind are now the cheapest sources of electricity in the U.S. Now we just have to sit back and let the market do the work, right? Not so fast. It's true that wind and solar are the cheapest when they're providing electrons. But the wind doesn't blow everywh

No matter where you live, you are paying attention to our changing climate. Stronger storms, more frequent heat waves, cold snaps, and ever-more extreme wet-and-dry cycles paint the news with the image of a wounded planet in flux. That’s the bad news. The good news is that a mountain of ventu

Carbon Maps is a relatively new entrant in the carbon and environmental accounting space as it is less than one year old. But the French company has already secured $7.6 million in funding (€7 million) following the startup's €3 million seed round extension. I already covered Carbon Maps ba

GM may have mortgaged its future last week. On Wednesday, the automaker announced that it would boost its dividend and buy back $10 billion worth of its shares, effectively erasing this year's net income and then some. The move pleased shareholders, with GM's stock trading about 10% higher

When I talked to hundreds of founders at technewss Disrupt this year, everybody seemed to be in a broad consensus that climate change is a bad thing. But still it seems like it is all lip service. I recently used an AI tool to analyze my library of thousands of pitch decks to find out how many fou

Climate tech might have been down in 2023, but it's not out yet. That's not surprising, really. For the broader economy, this was the year of the recession that never arrived. Investors grew reticent to write checks and skyrocketing interest rates blunted profitability projections for large

The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show is a wrap — for press, anyway. That means it’s time to recap the big launches, strange details, cars on display and peculiar absences we noticed this year. The highlights include the SUV that’ll make or break Lucid, Amazon’s auto

After a raucous year of supposed breakthroughs in superconducting physics, 2023 is looking like it's going to end with a whimper. This summer, LK-99 was the room-temperature superconductor du jour. Its downfall was as swift as its rise; myriad experiments revealed that it was little more than a

Thrifting is back, though this time it has a tech spin on it. An entirely new generation has discovered the pleasures of digging through other people's discarded clothes in the hopes of finding the perfect piece. Hoping to cash in on the trend, companies have been embracing resale platforms, al

Consumers in the U.S. have the memory of a goldfish. When gas prices are up, they seek out more fuel-efficient transportation. But when they're down, they rush to buy the biggest truck possible. Just take a look at Ford F-Series sales data from the last decade juxtaposed with average monthly ga