Tim De Chant
I have a confession to make: I don’t usually follow the UN climate change conference proceedings until the very end.
This year’s COP28 was no different. Not because it was hosted by an oil and gas power, and not because neither President Biden nor the Pope attended.
Rather, I’ve come to...
Geothermal startup Quaise Energy is raising a new funding round, TechCrunch+ has exclusively learned.
The company filed new paperwork yesterday with the SEC, stating that it had raised $13 million of an expected $25 million.
The new round will be priced, Quaise’s co-founder and CEO, Carlos Araque, told TechCrunch+. The funds...
Congrats, we did it! Solar and wind are now the cheapest sources of electricity in the U.S. Now we just have to sit back and let the market do the work, right?
Not so fast. It’s true that wind and solar are the cheapest when they’re providing electrons. But the...
Solid-state batteries might get a lot of press, but they’re still years away from powering an EV near you. But it appears a breakthrough is just around the corner: silicon anodes.
A number of companies have been racing to commercialize silicon anode battery technology, which promises double-digit-percent increases in lithium-ion...
Battery swapping for electric vehicles might be a little like communism: good in theory, but so far the only place that it has really caught on is China.
Unlike communism, though, battery swapping could usher in freedom for a wide range of people, allowing them to participate in the EV...
Joshua Posamentier and Abe Yokell have spent the last seven years on the LP circuit, tirelessly pitching LPs on the financial and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) benefits of investing in climate tech.
“We’ve had hundreds — I don’t even want to fess to how many — but hundreds of...
GM may have mortgaged its future last week.
On Wednesday, the automaker announced that it would boost its dividend and buy back $10 billion worth of its shares, effectively erasing this year’s net income and then some. The move pleased shareholders, with GM’s stock trading about 10% higher than before...
The “traitorous eight,” the PayPal Mafia and . . . the OpenAI expats?
OpenAI’s meltdown is likely to become the latest installment in what’s becoming a Silicon Valley tradition: turmoil at a leading company spurring a round of employee departures that ends up seeding a fresh crop of startups.
The drama-filled weekend that’s now spilling...
If anyone can make EV charging work, it may be Buc-ee’s.
Maybe you’ve heard of the convenience store chain, but if you live outside the Southern U.S., chances are you haven’t experienced one. And they are an experience. Buc-ee’s stores are revered throughout Texas for the cleanliness of their restrooms,...
After a raucous year of supposed breakthroughs in superconducting physics, 2023 is looking like it’s going to end with a whimper.
This summer, LK-99 was the room-temperature superconductor du jour. Its downfall was as swift as its rise; myriad experiments revealed that it was little more than a run-of-the-mill...
