Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. (Group14 / Talia Green Photo) Woodinville, Wash.-based Group14 Technologies has raised $400 million in venture capital that will supercharge the commercialization of its battery technology. The Series C round was led by Porsche AG,…
Tag Archives: Climate change
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Jeff Bezos, fourth from left, and Lauren Sánchez, next to him, attended the United Nation’s COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November and met with leaders from Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Bolivia. Also pictured is Bezos Earth Fund president and CEO Andrew Steer, third from right. (Photo via Instagram) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced…
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Anglo American’s zero-emission haul truck stands three stories tall. (Anglo American Photo) After years of development, the world’s largest zero-emission vehicle was unveiled today at a South African platinum mine, with a hydrogen-fueled hybrid powerplant designed and built by Seattle-based First Mode. Anglo American’s three-story-tall, 200-ton nuGen hybrid mining truck received a grand sendoff from…
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The Inflection.io team, including co-founders Dave Rigotti (front, left), Vic Davis (fourth from left), and Aaron Bird (fifth from left). (Inflection.io Photo) Here’s our latest rundown on recent startup investment news in the Pacific Northwest. Inflection.io New funding: Inflection.io, a Seattle marketing automation startup, officially came out of stealth and announced a $5 million round…
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Elliott Smith (left), director of real estate for the Port of Bellingham, shakes hands with Corvus Energy CEO Geir Bjørkeli at the Nordic Innovation Summit in Seattle. Corvus announced that it is opening a battery manufacturing facility in the Washington city of Bellingham later this year. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Corvus Energy, a Norway-based…
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Motivated by climate concerns, Erin Bryn Fetridge in November installed 20 photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of her Northwest Seattle home. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) When Erin Bryn Fetridge and Ron Darling decided to put 20 solar panels on their roof this fall, one key motivator drove the decision. “We want to have…
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My cat contemplates sampling a discounted slab of cookies-and-cream pie from Seattle’s Pie Bar. He abstained. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) I’ll admit, I definitely have food waste issues. Four nights out of five, I’m eating the last, unwanted bites of my kid’s dinner so they’re not composted. The shabby heels from the loaf of…
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Zap Energy’s co-founders, left to right: Chief Technology Officer Brian A Nelson, President Benj Conway, and Chief Science Officer Uri Shumlak. (Zap Energy Photo) The news: Seattle-area startup Zap Energy is edging closer to the promise of fusion power. The company Wednesday announced two milestones: its newest prototype device has created plasma, a superheated gas…
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(Flickr Creative Commons Photo / Ivan Radic) New and “substantially remodeled” apartment buildings in unincorporated King County will be required to have 10% of their parking spaces capable of charging electric vehicles and 25% of spaces must have the infrastructure in place to one day convert them to EV charging. The new rules were approved…
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Solar panels. (Unsplash / Chelsea Photo) Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon held the top spot for the second year in a row with energy purchases totaling 6,212 megawatts (MW), or 6.2 gigawatts (GW). Microsoft was a close second with…