Plug-in hybrid vehicles are often touted as a bridge to battery-electric vehicles, promising to slash emissions by operating as EVs for short trips while relying…
Author: Tim De Chant
Exclusive: Why investors are going gaga over solid-state transformers |
It’s no secret that the electrical grid is aging, but one part stands out from the rest. Transformers haven’t changed much since Thomas Edison made…
Exclusive: Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’ |
It’s a challenge every startup faces: They’ve made a prototype and proven the thing works, but now have to sell the product and produce enough…
Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline |
Fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company’s Polaris prototype…
Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV |
8:29 AM PST · February 11, 2026 Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes…
Trump EPA reportedly seeks to revoke landmark air pollution rule |
7:47 AM PST · February 10, 2026 The Trump administration’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is looking to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding” that found greenhouse…
Google- and Microsoft-backed Terradot acquires carbon-removal competitor |
In Brief Posted: 12:26 PM PST · February 6, 2026 Carbon-removal startup Terradot is acquiring competitor Eion, the two companies announced today. The sale was…
Exclusive: Apeiron Labs gets $9.5M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots |
Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites,…
Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid |
9:56 AM PST · February 4, 2026 Forget EVs —stationary batteries are getting all the buzz, and investment, in the U.S. these days. Startup Lunar…
Exclusive: Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old-building retrofits |
New York City and others like it are filled with old buildings that are for the most part fine, except they’re not all that comfortable…