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Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (389+ words) Battery startup Form Energy said on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million to expand its manufacturing capacity in West Virginia, the latest sign that the AI data center building boom is fueling investment in energy storage. Form’s unique battery chemistry…...
Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people??? and the grid??? will actually want
10+ hour, 32+ min ago (234+ words) Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home....
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once??? he'll explain why at Disrupt 2026
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (456+ words) Building a company is hard. But building one that also designs, manufactures, and delivers hardware at scale, from a factory floor, with supply chain concerns galore is another order of difficulty. And Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch…...
Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
1+ week, 2+ day ago (412+ words) Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat them all by putting batteries in people’s backyards instead. It appears to be paying off,…...
Sorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine
1+ week, 6+ day ago (395+ words) Sometimes the crowd isn’t so wise. When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. And not in a positive way. Critics compared the wedge-shaped Luce with a Nissan Leaf and said Chinese…...
Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (117+ words) Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit....
Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (399+ words) Waymo and other robotaxi operators are facing increased scrutiny — and possible new federal requirements — over how their autonomous vehicles interact with emergency responders, a regulatory risk that’s becoming harder for the industry to shrug off. A TechCrunch investigation earlier this…...
Saudi prince buys 5% stake in Lucid Motors
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (344+ words) Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family, has purchased a 5% stake in Lucid Motors, increasing the Kingdom’s overall ownership of the electric vehicle company. That happened on July 14, when an electric vehicle blog…...
Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year's mark
2+ week, 4+ day ago (424+ words) Defense tech company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may push its valuation up by a whopping $40 billion to about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at…...
Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (288+ words) Swedish electric and autonomous trucking company Einride has agreed to acquire EV charging startup Flipturn in an all-stock deal worth $38 million. The acquisition — Einride’s first as a publicly traded company — will expand its EV charging ecosystem as it works to…...