TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 3, 2024

The battery startup has raised $78 million to bring its alternative to lithium-ion cells to everything from scooters to steel mills. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Green Watt Power , a maker of EV chargers and DC-DC converters, has introduced a charger designed for EVs, including material handling vehicles, motorcycles, scooters and e-carts. It also has a universal input range of 90 to 264 VAC, an input frequency range of 47 to 63 Hz and a 20 A output for 400 V lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Applications include small city EVs, drones, e-bikes, e-scooters and robotics. Unlike conventional lithium-ion battery packs, eTechnology requires little lithium or cobalt. It does use some lithium, but the main components are aluminum, graphene and carbon. The longest-running test unit is now approaching 70,000 cycles.”.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 28, 2020

Mopeds and scooters leading the electric charge. The global share is about 30 percent, but it's mostly mopeds and scooters, said Nick Albanese, BNEF's head of new mobility research. Mopeds and scooters are hardly status symbols, and economic considerations are one of the prime motivations for their purchase.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

Due to a recent surge in fires related to e-mobility consumer products, US lawmakers and regulators are placing new requirements on the lithium-ion batteries and chargers associated with e-bikes, kick scooters, and hoverboards. What manufacturers need to know.

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From smart-lithium battery-powered scooters and copper extraction to farming platforms, find the recent deals worth looking at. Looking for the latest cleantech deals?

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From smart lithium battery-powered scooters t0 copper extraction and farming platforms – find. Want to know how the latest cleantech deals are evolving?

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Governor Kathy Hochul today (Feb 1) announced a statewide campaign to raise awareness about the safe use of consumer products that contain lithium-ion batteries, such as e-bikes, e-scooters,

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Once billed as an environmentally-friendly and enterprising venture, the electric scooter-sharing micromobility business has not lived up to the promising hype but is now looking dismal. Could this be the end for e-scooters? Related: We love electric scooters — but is the Bird trend actually bad for the environment?

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

StoreDot claims it has produced a batch of fast-charging sample battery cells with its manufacturing partner Eve Energy using a normal lithium-ion battery production line in a factory in China.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Beyond vehicle solutions, the company also produces components for a broad range of charging infrastructure, including charging infrastructure for various types of EVs, from e-bikes and e-scooters to public mobility solutions like e-passes, as well as logistics vehicles such as trucks and forklifts, he said.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 30, 2019

August Cleantech Roundup: Energy Storage is Growing, Cleantech Startup are Fundraising, and Scooters are Driving Themselves Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology policy, and investing. Link If the Scooter Rides Itself, What Am I Here For?

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

At present there are seven million passenger EVs on the world's roads, together with 500,000 electric buses, almost 400,000 electric delivery vans and trucks, and 184 million electric mopeds, scooters, and motorcycles, according to the analysis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

StoreDot claims it has produced a batch of fast-charging sample battery cells with its manufacturing partner Eve Energy on a normal lithium-ion production line in a factory in China.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Vendors have begun offering sodium-ion batteries on Chinese commerce site Taobao, mainly for two-wheeled electric scooters. Xuexiong claims its Na-ion scooter batteries have a cycle life up to five times longer than typical Li-ion batteries. “The There are still some challenges to overcome.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

Orlandi is proud of being an Italian company with Italy having a phenomenal number of motorcycle and scooter riders. GPR offers exhaust systems for more than 1200 models of scooters and motorcycles. Much higher than the endothermic engine because it requires continuously extracting the lithium for the batteries.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 21, 2021

Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way. Scooter company Spin announced this week that it’s electrifying the vans that pick up and charge its scooter networks.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Also, while money has poured in across the climate tech sector and across stages, the figures tend to be distorted by the mammoth late stage funding, especially those going to electric vehicle companies (much as it was a couple years ago with funding to scooter/ micromobility companies).

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

On offer were a raft of clean tech innovations, from the latest smart home gizmos through to the world's most powerful e-bikes and e-scooters. The company claims the technology is more sustainable than battery energy storage systems because it does not rely on finite rare earth minerals, such as lithium or cobalt.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

At stake is the possibility of a truly circular economy for EV batteries, boosting the sustainability of the technology, while safeguarding the valuable resources – including lithium, cobalt, and nickel – on which it relies. “It

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. In baking ovens, materials for batteries such as lithium are dried. We too have the entire chain - from processing raw materials such as lithium and cobalt to developing software for battery management - within one company.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales continue to surge in key markets, while scores of producers and users of cars, buses, trucks, and even scooters are now pushing towards ridding their operations of fossil fuel vehicles altogether. But BNEF insists recycling can serve to address any supply concerns.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Deals of the Week (8/14-8/27) Venture Fundings 🔋 Northvolt , a Stockholm, Sweden-based lithium-ion batteries from recycled materials producer, raised $1.2B India produces a new electric scooter every 90 seconds.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  In deals, ~$400M for electric scooters and 3 mega $100M+ rounds for geothermal, solid flow batteries, and rural minigrids.    In August, a company called Lithium Americas logged what it expects could be a discovery of one of the world’s largest lithium repositories on the Nevada-Oregon border.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In particular, obtaining and refining necessary raw materials like lithium, nickel, and cobalt can be difficult. According to SupplyChainDive , lithium prices don’t support the required mining investment. The e-scooter is one example of an alternative to the traditional passenger vehicle that is rapidly growing in popularity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Neodymium iron boron magnets from hard disc drives, and electrical engines of e-bikes, scooters and end-of-life vehicles (ELVs). Recovery technologies and processes are well established for some CRMs, such as palladium from printed circuit boards or cobalt from lithium-ion batteries.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

   ⚒️ Adionics , a Thiais, France-based direct lithium extraction technology platform, raised $27M in Series B funding from Bpifrance, SQM, Supernova Invest, Céleste Management, and Ovive.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 8, 2021

Interesting chart of scooter hardware: Who uses which model, and who makes them. Link Li-Cycle, the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, announced a partnership with Clean Energy Trust portfolio company Renewance to improve end-of-life energy storage system reuse and recycling.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

🛵 Ola Electric , a Bengaluru, India-based electric scooters provider, raised $140M from Temasek Holdings, Tiger Global Management, SoftBank, Matrix Partners India, Kia Motors,  and other investors. from Hy24, Altor, GIC, Just Climate, AMF, and other investors.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Expensive lithium-ion batteries sometimes need to be. The issue is especially noticeable in two- and three-wheeled vehicles, where adding cooling devices is challenging, particularly in hotter nations like Thailand.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Sustainable transportation leader Gogoro Inc. is expanding its footprint across Asia with strategic investments from lubricant maker Castrol; upcoming launches in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Singapore; and market growth in the Philippines.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 26, 2024

The green revolution is accelerating in Athens! By 2026, the city hopes to have ten times as many electric taxis on the road as there currently are. There are currently 13,661 taxis in Athens, and only 100 of them are electric. In solar news, a ramp-up of solar module production.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 6, 2024

The Taiwanese scooter company — widely known for being the first one to crack battery exchange stations — is finally selling its scooters and opening use of its first four stations in the city of Bogota in alliance with. Four months after announcing its arrival in Colombia, Gogoro is here.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 15, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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