Electric vehicles

Clean fleets

‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port trucks

The program, from Climate United and Forum Mobility, will help secure the EV trucks and charging stations needed to phase out diesel trucks at the state’s busy ports.

By Jeff St. John . 29 October 2024

A driver plugs in an electric truck at a Forum Mobility charging depot at the Port of Long Beach. — A driver at Hight Logistics, a drayage operator at the Port of Long Beach, plugs in an electric truck at a charging depot operated by Forum Mobility. (Forum Mobility)

Climatetech finance

Think the climatetech SPAC scene in the US is wild? You should see what’s happening in China

China has many more publicly traded cleantech companies than the U.S., thanks to its robust solar and EV supply chains.

By Hara Wang . 30 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Bipartisan infrastructure bill with $73B for power grid clears key Senate hurdle

While lawmakers in D.C. debate whether to invest tens of billions in clean technologies, private climatetech investment funds are not waiting around. Here's a roundup.

By Eric Wesoff . 29 July 2021
Transmission

Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap

Can framing grid investment as a way to prevent disasters convince more people to support it?

By Julian Spector . 27 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Fossil fuels and climatetech finance digest

A roundup of recent energy and climatetech finance news.

By Eric Wesoff . 20 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Veteran investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund raises $250M amid cleantech funding boom

The early-mover investment fund draws on a decade of experience to navigate a heady market.

By Julian Spector . 16 July 2021
Workforce diversity

Charging Up: Women’s cleantech career moves at DOE, Energy Vault, Shoals, The Ray and more

Energy Secretary Granholm gets a new senior advisor, women lead the SPAC that's merging with Heliogen, and a new college program will train women for jobs servicing EVs.

By Eric Wesoff . 13 July 2021
Hydrogen

How much renewables expansion is needed for a global green hydrogen economy?

And is a massive wind and solar buildout of that scale even feasible?

By Jason Deign . 13 July 2021
EV charging

EDF Renewables makes smart EV charging the centerpiece of its distributed energy strategy

Subsidiary PowerFlex makes software for EV fleets that enables on-site solar, batteries, energy management and microgrids.

By Jeff St. John . 8 July 2021
EV charging

The next frontier in corporate climate pledges: Installing free EV chargers at employees' homes

Biogen wants all its corporate vehicles to be electric by 2025. It’s hiring Enel X to give employees at-home charging to make it happen.

By Jeff St. John . 29 June 2021
Batteries

Used EV batteries could get a second life storing clean energy on California's grid

A surge in retired EV batteries is helping to eliminate second-life EV battery storage hurdles, just in time to help meet clean energy mandates.

By Elizabeth McCarthy . 22 June 2021

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Electric vehicles

‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port trucks

Think the climatetech SPAC scene in the US is wild? You should see what’s happening in China

Bipartisan infrastructure bill with $73B for power grid clears key Senate hurdle

Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap

Fossil fuels and climatetech finance digest

Veteran investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund raises $250M amid cleantech funding boom

Charging Up: Women’s cleantech career moves at DOE, Energy Vault, Shoals, The Ray and more

How much renewables expansion is needed for a global green hydrogen economy?

EDF Renewables makes smart EV charging the centerpiece of its distributed energy strategy

The next frontier in corporate climate pledges: Installing free EV chargers at employees' homes

Used EV batteries could get a second life storing clean energy on California's grid