Tim De Chant
It’s a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss, even the bosses. Top executives report to the CEO, the CEO answers to the board, and the board serves at the whim of the shareholders.
Exxon’s management has now decided that it doesn’t like what its bosses have...
Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough.
They charge faster than ever before, but there’s still room for improvement. The materials they’re made of, particularly cobalt and nickel, are pricey and problematic. Researchers have been scrambling to find alternative materials, from...
While other automakers are dialing back their electric vehicle plans, BMW is quietly going all in.
“The tipping point for the combustion engine was last year,” CFO Walter Mertl told journalists at a roundtable in Munich recently. The German automaker has seen sales of its fossil fuel vehicles plateau and...
It's a precautionary tale for how to assess new markets — and how not to introduce a new product
Hertz made a splash in 2021 when it announced that it would buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3 sedans in a little over a year. Six months later, the rental car company...
All automakers, including Tesla, are at a crossroads
If you’ve only been reading headlines these past few months, you’d think demand for electric vehicles has fallen off a cliff.
There are many reasons why that’s not the case, some of which we’ll get into later, but two more data points landed...
If you’re someone who loves an internet hype cycle, good news: There’s a new group of scientists who claim to have discovered a near-room-temperature superconductor.
Yes, again.
People on X, formerly Twitter, and Hacker News and all the other places science enthusiasts post are getting worked up about a new material...
One of the major stories that defined the tech sector in 2023 was layoffs. Companies large and small shed over 240,000 jobs in the last year, and while the trend has cooled of late, it hasn’t stopped, with nearly 7,000 jobs cut in November alone.
But there have been bright...
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.
The EV world, from a...
Electric vehicle charging company EVCS is raising a $20 million round, TechCrunch+ has exclusively learned.
The startup has so far raised $7.5 million of the $20 million target, according to paperwork the company filed with the SEC on Wednesday.
If EVCS can raise the rest, this round would make for a...
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, but they were...
