TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

How do you decarbonize this monolithic industry? There’s a lot of opportunity here, but like other legacy industries — and indeed the ships themselves — it can be difficult to overcome inertia. The images in this article are of a proposed smaller test ship.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry, Mary Ann writes in this week’s issue of the Interchange, our fintech newsletter. From chillcore to core chill : Ivan reports that music streaming service Deezer is testing a meditation app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Battery Resourcers , a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has raised $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. The company, which is based in Worcester, Massachusetts, doesn’t just recycle batteries.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

with the prototype of its Ocean SUV — which was built by Volkswagen subsidiary Italdesign — apparently serving as a test of how much a startup can differentiate the design of an MEB-powered vehicle. Now, the automaker is considering working with Fisker Inc., Volkswagen says no deal has been reached.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Just take a look at Swedish lithium-ion battery producer Northvolt. Other deals that caught my attention … Accure , a startup that uses AI to predict lithium-ion battery failures, raised $7.8 Several Silicon Valley and freight tech industry angels also participated, according to the company. The company raised around $1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

senator Joe Manchin’s ultimatum to car manufacturers that they either move more of their lithium-ion battery supply chain out of China or give up on some tax incentives that are part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Light it up : Over at TechCrunch+, Tim reports on U.S. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

In six months, you’re going to pitch on stage at demo day, to an institutional investor in your industry,” Executive Director Caroline Winnett tells TechCrunch. Serinus is developing a warning system for detecting failure in lithium-ion batteries. Here’s a closer look at six highlights from this Demo Day. Serinus Labs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By early 2019, though, the startup postponed a planned sports car that was based on the solid-state technology and pivoted to the Ocean, which uses a more common lithium-ion battery. And I think in the meantime, what SPACs have really done is replaced Silicon Valley as a funding tool for capital-intensive industries like automotive, EVs.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We believe our supply chain, engineering and production teams have been dealing with these global challenges with ingenuity, agility and flexibility that is unparalleled in the automotive industry,” the company wrote. It continues to make and test new “4680” battery cells based on the design that it revealed in September 2020.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Below are the key details about how CATLs emerging business would operate going forward, and experts outlook on where the industry might be headed. Both the #25 and #20 batteries, named similarly to gasoline grades in China, have two variants that use nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes, respectively.

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TechNode

JUNE 7, 2024

Chinese regional authorities are responding to Beijings call to establish a number of strategic emerging industries as some traditional economic pillars of the country are in recession. What is a low-altitude economy? That is not the only reason, though. So is it almost like EVs in the air?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Sion is expected to have a range of 190 miles using a 54 kwH lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, supplied by China’s BYD, that is considered to be more sustainable because it doesn’t have manganese, nickel or cobalt — precious metals that have a high environmental and ethical impact.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The lithium-ion batteries that power our phones, laptops, and even cars are inherently imperfect and destined to degrade over time. While certain tips and tricks can speed up the process and extend your phone batterys life , theres nothing you can do about the limitations of the lithium-ion batteries in your devices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Motional , which expanded AV testing to San Diego , describes its encounters with trolleys. Panasonic announced plans to build a $4 billion factory in Kansas that will manufacture and supply lithium-ion batteries to EV makers. Ford announced two long-time employees, Hau Thai-Tang and Frederiek Toney , are retiring.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Other deals that got my attention … BMW i Ventures led the seed financing round of Rapid Liquid Print, which has developed 3D printers for elastomers that produce large-scale, high-resolution, soft and stretchable products with industrial materials such as soft rubber, silicone and foams. Gig economy.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the recently released 2023 EU Industrial Research and Development (R&D) Investment Scoreboard put together by the European Commission, Chinese tech giant Huawei has maintained its position among the top five global companies that made the highest R&D investments in 2022. In August 2023, Huawei released HarmonyOS 4.0

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

But we’re just getting to the point now where battery technology, lithium-ion technology, is power-dense enough for us to see it starting to creep into our portfolio. They’re just not solved by anything that’s on the roadmap today, from a lithium-ion perspective, anyway. The] semiconductor industry is doing the right thing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. Meanwhile, demand for delivery skyrocketed and the autonomous vehicle industry went through a consolidation. Electric bikes sales spiked as public transit ridership evaporated.

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Engadget

MARCH 11, 2025

Lithium-ion batteries dont perform well in heat and you should avoid charging them if its hotter than 95 degrees doing so can degrade the battery quickly and even cause them to malfunction. More advancements in battery life spans may be on the horizon particularly as the EV industry grows, which also relies on lithium-ion cells.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Teslas founders, two Silicon Valley engineers, didnt have experience in the auto industry either, Niedermeyer writes. But they had the idea that using lithium-ion batteries could make electric cars viable. When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tested one of the cars, it couldnt go more than 10 miles an hour because of a bug.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The program, now being tested at 10 sites around the country, also promises a new revenue stream to customers who feed energy back into the grid. Army tests, including the kind of forceful penetration, impact, overheating, and overcharging that easily results in fires in conventional batteries.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a drill, baby, drill administration that has already shut down wind energy expansion and put the solar industry in limbo by pausing funding and threatening Inflation Reduction Act incentives, one clean energy source has received support from President Donald Trump. Up until about four years ago, the geothermal industry in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

NEVI funding was appropriated by Congress as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law, and it cannot be canceled by the executive branch, said Elizabeth Turnbull, director of policy and regulatory affairs at the Alliance for Transportation Electrification, a trade group for the electric vehicle industry. Toyota just opened a $13.9

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