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Amazon unveils its Rivian-made electric delivery van with cool interior

Amazon is unveiling today its electric delivery van made by Rivian, and we get to see its cool interior for the first time. Last year, Rivian took a $700 million round of funding led by Amazon, and at the time, they were discussing opportunities to work together. A few months later, we learned that one of those opportunities is building an electric delivery van for the online retail…
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X SHORE Electric Boat & AIM ZERO Ocean Clean-Up

When we first embarked on our Fully Charged journey — 10 years and 553 episodes ago — we were especially attracted to electric cars and the clean energy that could potentially power them. Over time, and to our occasional astonishment, the adaptability of the humble…
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This fossil-fuel exec jumped to geothermal. He tells us why

Residential geothermal company Dandelion Energy yesterday announced that it’s hired a new vice president of drillings whose name is Jeremy Smith. What’s unique about Smith? The exec comes from a fossil-fuel background. From fossil fuels to geothermal Smith brings more than 18 years of experience in the natural gas and oil industries to Dandelion’s geothermal drilling operations. Before…
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First Tesla Megapacks deployed at world’s largest battery project with PG&E

The first Tesla Megapacks have been deployed at what should become the world’s largest battery project with PG&E in California. We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when they submitted it to CPUC and the company was in talks with Tesla in 2017. It involves four separate energy storage projects and two of them should become the world’s largest…
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These 5 green-tech startups just might make our world better

Global climate- and green-tech accelerator Elemental Excelerator just announced its newest cohort of 19 tech companies it said would be “ground-breakers and market-makers.” Here are five up-and-comers in Cohort 9 in the green-tech energy, mobility, and climate change sectors. This year, the growth-stage companies selected by Elemental, which has offices in California and Hawaii, not only solve…
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