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Wind Catching Systems wants to develop a floating, multi-turbine system. This illustration shows what it could look like once deployed. Wind Catching Systems With their considerable height and sweeping blades, wind turbines are perhaps the most visually striking sign of the world’s shift to a more sustainable future. Over the past few years, major players
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In this article HTZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles at a Hertz neighborhood location. Hertz Consumers may be on the fence about whether it’s yet time to buy EVs, but car-rental giant Hertz Global Holdings has made the leap. Markets boosted shares of Estero, Fla.-based Hertz after its recent
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Founders: Robert Falck (CEO), Linnéa Kornehed-Falck, Filip LiljaLaunched: 2016Headquarters: Stockholm, SwedenFunding: $652.3 millionValuation: N/AKey technologies: Artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, machine learningIndustry: AutomotivePrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 List: 0 Persephone Kavallines Just as electric vehicles are gaining popularity among consumers, so too are they catching on in the commercial trucking realm. In a quest to reduce carbon footprints
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The diesel-powered trucking industry moves a majority of freight, up to 70% in the U.S. alone. In California, trucks are the largest single source of vehicle-produced air pollution that “spew 70% of the state’s smog-forming gases and 80% of carcinogenic diesel pollutants,” according to the California Air Resources Board, making the trucking sector a key
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Founders: Donnel Baird (CEO), Keith KinchLaunched: 2014Headquarters: BrooklynFunding: $125 millionValuation: N/AKey technologies: Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of Things, machine learning, digital twinsIndustry: ConstructionPrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 List: 2 (No. 42 in 2022) Persephone Kavallines Brooklyn-based cleantech company BlocPower is squarely positioned with a mission to fight climate change while solving social injustices, focusing on renewable
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Founders: Gene Berdichevsky (CEO), Gleb Yushin, Alex JacobsLaunched: 2011Headquarters: Alameda, CaliforniaFunding: $930 millionValuation: N/AKey technologies: NanotechnologyIndustry: AutomotivePrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 List: 1 (No. 34 in 2021) Persephone Kavallines As the electric vehicle fast becomes the future for major automakers, critical elements including lithium are poised to be the equivalent of new oils. Elon Musk has been
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Founders: Jan Wurzbacher, Christoph Gebald (co-CEOs)Launched: 2009Headquarters: Zurich, SwitzerlandFunding: $810 millionValuation: $1 billionKey technologies: N/AIndustry: ConstructionPrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 List: 0 Persephone Kavallines Reducing carbon emissions may be the most important part of the efforts to slow climate change, but it may not be enough. Increasingly, there’s a focus on capturing carbon from the atmosphere and
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