Harri Weber
Plume, a startup founded to offer essential online healthcare services to trans people across the U.S., laid off more than two dozen workers in October, several sources close to the company told TechCrunch.
Transphobia is rife within the healthcare industry; it’s one reason why transgender patients struggle to access...
By the megawatt, solar installations are outpacing other energy sources in the U.S. this year — but you wouldn’t know it judging from Tesla’s latest reports.
Once among the top three residential installers in the nation, Tesla’s solar business is in decline. In the third quarter, the automaker’s solar...
If you rented a van from Zipcar a while back, there’s a chance it failed to meet the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s standards.
The NHTSA hit Zipcar with a first-of-its-kind fine for “renting vehicles with open, unrepaired recalls,” the agency announced on Monday. The federal safety agency regulates...
Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping apps.
While flying under the radar for three years, the London-based startup tells TechCrunch that it’s raised about $2.9 million and hooked up...
Arrival just warned investors that it’s slashing its workforce yet again.
The electric van maker said on Tuesday that it “took actions” on October 5 to “further reduce its operating costs.” Those actions include letting go of “up to approximately 25%” of its workers, the company stated in a...
Alphabet subsidiary Waymo is expanding its service area in San Francisco despite protests against robotaxis, while rival Cruise grapples with crashes and other incidents.
Waymo riders can now access the service across the vast majority of SF, Waymo announced on Monday on social media site X. The company had...
Starting in January, the IRS will make the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available immediately via dealers. The Treasury Department announced the update on Friday, noting that dealers will have the option to “reduce the purchase price of the vehicle or provide cash to the buyer.”
The update also...
ElectraMeccanica, former maker of three-wheeled electric vehicles, said on Wednesday that it has “terminated” its plan to merge with Tevva, which makes hydrogen-electric trucks (not sandals).
ElectraMeccanica said its board decided unanimously to bin the deal over “multiple incurable breaches of the agreement by Tevva.” The alleged breaches include...
Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput.
The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an all-electric Golf hatchback.
This tracks...
The UN estimates that about one third of all food produced goes to waste before it even gets the chance to decompose in your fridge.
That abysmal stat explains is one key reason why leading VCs and celebrities have poured cash into companies that aim to prevent supply-chain food...
