And just to put a cherry on top, the notoriously tough Consumer Reports writers say that the $89,650 Tesla Model S comes close, and just may be, the best car ever.
EcoMotors has secured a $200 million investment for a plant to construct its Opoc engine, a clean, efficient, lightweight, and low-cost internal combustion engine.
While the options for clean energy are growing for U.S. consumers, it's not always easy to see what your options are, which is something clean tech startup Choose Energy is focused on.
Through his company Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett has acquired two SunPower solar power plant projects for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.
Guest Post Energy management software can help businesses cut energy consumption and save money, which is why VCs are warming up to the field.
SolarReserve, a U.S. based solar energy developer has succeeded in closing a $586 million equity and debt round of financing for two South African clean-energy projects.
LightSail has earned some heavyweight support from both venture capital firms and angel investors, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
AutoGrid, a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2011, pulled in $9 million to develop its "big data" technology to help utilities and businesses control their energy usage.
Siluria Technologies, the San Francisco-based cleantech company that is developing a technology to turn natural gas into transportation fuels and industrial chemicals, announced it has raised $30 million in investment for its third founding round.
With over $63 million in …
The green technology investing boom has slowed. But if you ask investors, greentech isn’t disappearing, it’s just changing.
Between 2006 and 2007, cleantech and greentech emerged as hot terms in the investor vernacular. Startups focused on big-picture energy needs, including …
The professional venture capital community is more diverse than ever, but employment is still largely dominated by white men, according to the results of a joint census conducted by the National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones VentureSource, which was …
Research shop The CleanTech Group just announced its companies of the year, in addition to 100 companies to watch on the Global Cleantech 100 list.
North America’s winner is smart meter communications company SilverSpring Networks which announced plans a few …
Google is still bullish on wind energy. The company said today that it’s invested an additional $102 million in the Alta Wind Energy Center, bringing its total investment in the wind power farm to $157 million.
Google previously invested in …
First Solar is getting closer to securing loan guarantees for three solar panel plants that would add 1,300 megawatts of power worth of clean energy to the United States — a critical step in shoring up the potentially threatened American …
Google has invested $168 million into a solar power energy project led by BrightSource Energy in the Mojave desert in California, the search giant announced today.
The new project doesn’t rely on photovoltaic cells that capture sunlight and convert it …
General Electric will acquire Converteam, a company that specializes in technology that converts electricity to mechanical energy and vice versa, for a whopping $3.2 billion to improve its power transmission and management network.
The deal is not specifically a clean-technology …
Who’s in a position to make some green while taking care of Mother Nature? Not many women, it turns out.
Dozens of top global brands — including some leading cleantech companies — have no female board directors. A recent article …
By 2020, there will be around 50 billion devices connected to a wireless network — and a huge chunk of those devices will be able to drastically reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact by virtue of being connected to the …
An escalating crisis at nuclear power plants in Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami has not changed the investing thesis about clean technology, according to a number of leading venture capitalists and researchers.
Fears of a meltdown at the …
Weather-based insurance startup WeatherBill said today it had raised $42 million and signed on new investors Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures for its second round of financing.
The company, which was founded by two ex-Google employees in 2006, offers what …
