Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2021

The Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN) has selected three additional startups to participate in the program. The new companies are focused on creating electrochemical systems that can help reduce carbon emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors and represent the program’s fourth cohort.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2021

Hyundai Motor Group announced its 2021 ZER01NE Accelerator, an open innovation platform to facilitate collaboration between startups and the Group on various projects. This program aims to discover valuable startups and explore the possibilities of strategic usage of their innovative technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2021 EV Open Innovation Challenge is a program to facilitate collaboration with startups on various projects related to charging infrastructure and service solutions for electric vehicles (EV). Selections will be announced in December 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

The Automated Driving In-Plant project (Automatisiertes Fahren im Werk, AFW) is being realized in collaboration with two startups and will enhance the efficiency of new-vehicle logistics in plants and distribution centers. The aim is to evaluate startups and develop them so they become long-term partners of the BMW Group. billion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Snam, the main Italian operator for the transport and dispatching of natural gas in Italy, launched HyAccelerator , a corporate global-scale startup acceleration program focused on hydrogen. At the end of the program, the startups will conduct feasibility studies with Snam for future hydrogen pilot projects.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

Launch of the Software République incubator in March 2022, featuring a tailor-made support program to accelerate joint projects and support startups. Five startups are currently being incubated: Angoka, Geoflex, Parcoor, Vianova and Wattpark. Cybersecurity is one of mobility’s major challenges.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We are just over one year removed from the initial launch of solar EV startup Aptera’s Accelerator program, which was implemented to not only get customers to commit to their SEV purchase fully but also help give the company some financial runway as it inches toward scaled production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

Recent wins include two additional high-voltage coolant heater programs, one with a global OEM expected to launch in 2023 and the other with an emerging electric vehicle brand in China expected to launch in 2024. BorgWarner has just added Rhombus Energy Solutions, a provider of charging solutions in the North American market. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2023

The pilot program will be itselectric’s largest public demonstration of its charging network, which is designed to help cities meet their carbon reduction targets and reduce capital expenditure by completely avoiding the infrastructure upgrades normally needed to support on-street charging.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL ( GCxN ), a multi-million dollar program developed in collaboration between Shell GameChanger and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has selected five startups to participate in the program’s fifth cohort.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Maruti Suzuki India has successfully concluded the 2nd cohort of its ‘Incubation Program for Mobility Startups.’ ’ The winners of this program, namely Woloo, Hala Mobility, and SwitchOn, will collaborate with Maruti Suzuki to co-create business solutions utilising disruptive technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Lightning Systems, a leading developer of zero-emission powertrains, has received reaccreditation under bp’s Advancing Low Carbon (ALC) program. The ALC program was created by bp to encourage bp and its partners to identify lower carbon opportunities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivian micro-mobility and clean energy startup MOBI has partnered with American direct lithium extraction company Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. The Wilson Center’s Latin American Program published a piece in February 2022 that provides an informative backgrounder on Bolivia’s travails in this area. EnergyX) ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2022

Sparkz, a battery startup with exclusive licenses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to produce domestic cobalt-free lithium batteries ( earlier post ), will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize its zero-cobalt battery. In October 2021, the startup won a grant for $2.6

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Green Car Reports

MAY 13, 2020

Startup SparkCharge is deploying a mobile charging system in pilot programs for San Francisco and Los Angeles. G1 Towing, and Agero to provide mobile charging as part of roadside assistance programs. Instead of searching for a charging station, what if the station came to you? SparkCharge has partnered with Atlas Towing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

The lab opens in September, allowing mobility and smart infrastructure pioneers and real-estate innovators and startups to test parking-related mobility, logistics and electric vehicle charging technologies. Led by Enterprise, the collaboration also aims to test more seamless and efficient rental car returns.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Safire, a battery technology startup formerly known as BTRY, plans to locate facilities in East Tennessee as part of its plan to commercialize the liquid-to-solid battery technology. SAFIRE was originally funded through the ORNL Seed Money program, and the project continued under DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2022

Firefly, a fast-growing in-car and car-top mobility media company and a Google Ventures-backed startup, will collaborate with Hyundai in promoting its vehicles—including EVs—to rideshare fleets and drivers across key US cities. The program will be available everywhere Firefly is on the road.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The company hopes to make e-bikes more accessible to a wider selection of riders.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

California-based electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive announced the launch of leasing for its R1T electric pickup for customers in some U.S.

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Electrek

JUNE 9, 2023

Nearly six months into its Accelerator crowdfunding program, solar EV startup Aptera is putting a pause on new investments while it files requested paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2021

The project will use innovative magnetizable concrete developed by German startup Magment GmbH enabling wireless dynamic charging of electric vehicles as they drive. The Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University early in July announced plans to develop the first contactless wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

As part of ARPA-E’s REACT program, the University of Minnesota (UMN) developed an early stage prototype of an iron-nitride permanent magnet material. Since completing its ARPA-E award, the University of Minnesota team created a spinout startup company: Niron Magnetics. Background.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The program is funded by an Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) OPEN award. The purpose of the development program is to use HT-PEM technology operating at 80 ?C Fast Startup Time: Develop extremely stable fuel-cells that can start under nearly water-saturated conditions.

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Electrek

MARCH 6, 2023

Although Lordstown beat the Tesla Cybertruck to market, the EV startup faces more financial woes with widening losses in Q4 and an ongoing production halt. Meanwhile, Lordstown says it’s progressing on a new EV program with Foxconn.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

United Kingdom startup Trojan Energy will test charging stations that pop up from the sidewalk when needed. The Subsurface Technology for Electric Pathways (STEP) will pilot program will see 200 curbside charging stations installed in the London boroughs of Brent and Camden. The project will receive 3 million pounds ($3.9

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

San Francisco-based Forum Mobility provides heavy-duty fleet electrification programs to decarbonize fossil-fuel truck fleets. The startup recently secured $7.5 million in seed funding, which was co-led by Obvious Ventures and Homecoming Capital.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2021

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs were established to encourage participation of diverse communities in technological innovation, as well as to increase technology transfer between research institutions and small businesses.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There are over 15 startups in the sector that are at different stages in their development. After several years of pilot programs, a lot of them are now ramping up their operations. The electric 2-wheeler market in Kenya has been getting a lot of attention. 285,203 ICE motorcycles were registered in Kenya in 2021, so […]

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

a startup developing innovative solid-state battery systems for use in future electric vehicles (EVs) that would fully charge in minutes, announced the grant of an exclusive technology license by Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and a seed round financing of $5.15 Adden Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Created in 2018, EnergyX is a startup focused on providing efficient, sustainable solutions to challenges facing global lithium supply chains from the raw battery materials extraction process to refining and the manufacturing of next generation batteries.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

BizDateUp Technologies, a prominent supporter of startup ecosystems, has announced the appointment of its co-founder, Jeet Chandan, to the Board of ZEVO, a tech-enabled electric vehicle (EV) mobility supply chain platform. India’s startup ecosystem is brimming with potential and talent.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Global tech company Foxconn has announced it will invest at least another $70 million and up to $170 million total in EV startup Lordstown Motors. The post Foxconn is investing another $70 million in Ohio’s Lordstown Motors to pursue revamped ‘EV program’ appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 2, 2022

LG Energy Solution (LGES) recently announced its annual Battery Startup Challenge 2022. LG’s battery subsidiary invites battery startups to join the international competition, which offers up to $1 million in cash prizes. “By Any startup developing battery-related technology is welcome to participate in the challenge.

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Electrek

APRIL 17, 2023

Commercial EV startup Volta Trucks has achieved a pivotal milestone in its “Trucks as a Service” journey. The 16-ton Volta Zero truck has begun series production in Steyr, Austria, as the company begins a test drive program to educate customers and ensure quality before the first customer deliveries later this year.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2024

Engineers are used to being experts in their field, but when Zach Rattner cofounded his artificial-intelligence startup, Yembo , he quickly realized he needed to get comfortable with being out of his depth. How Yembo grew out of a family business Rattner has his wife to thank for his startup idea. We are bringing about change.

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