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REACH Strategies puts the energy transition in the driver’s seat
The clean energy communications firm turns policy into test drives, community conversations, and practical next steps. Its most revealing product is the encounter between a curious person and an unfamiliar technology.
Xiaomi sold you the phone. Now it wants the driveway.
The bargain-phone business became a sprawling bet on connected living. Cars have made that bet bigger, costlier and much harder to get wrong.
Accident Exchange sells the days between a crash and normal life
Now trading as AX, the British accident management company turns replacement cars, repair coordination and insurance paperwork into a business. Its next test is keeping electric-car drivers electric.
EO Charging Built the Plug, the Brain and the Pit Crew - Then the Grid Shifted Beneath It
The British fleet-charging specialist learned that the valuable bit is not the socket. It is knowing which van must leave at dawn, how much power the depot can spare and who answers when a charger sulks at 2 a.m. Its trip from a Suffolk pig shed to Pod and EDF is a sharp lesson in building - and financing - hard climate infrastructure.
The Gearbox Whisperers Teaching Electric Cars to Lose Their Whine
Inside SMT's stubbornly practical bet that the fastest route to a quieter, tougher electric powertrain is to stop passing its parts between disconnected simulation tools.
Outrider Put the Self-Driving Bet Where It Can Actually Work: The Yard
The highway stole the self-driving headlines. Outrider went behind the warehouse, taught an 80,000-pound robot to hitch trailers, dodge traffic and mind the brake lines - then built the safety and support machinery enterprises demand.
Volkswagen Tried to Build One Brain for Nine Car Brands. CARIAD Learned Where Not to Do It Alone
CARIAD was supposed to give Volkswagen a single software spine. Delays, executive turnover and billions in annual losses forced a more useful idea: own the layers that create leverage, and partner for the ones that do not.
The $1 Million Lesson Hidden Under a Work Van Floor
LEGEND turned the ignored cargo bay into a business case - fewer broken mats, lighter EVs, harder-to-rob vans and a floor sturdy enough to build the rest of the upfit on.
Xeal’s Contrarian Bet: The Best EV Charger Is the One That Ignores the Internet
After its first connected chargers stranded drivers and drew hate mail, Xeal spent two years moving the transaction off the cloud. The result is a real-estate-first charging business built for the place Wi-Fi goes to die: the parking garage.
The Battery Startup Betting That the Next Breakthrough Isn't Chemistry - It's the Coating Machine
Ateios ripped the solvents and forever chemicals out of battery-making and replaced the oven with a flash of light. The result coats three times faster - and Kodak, a Nobel laureate, and a Fortune 100 electronics giant have all shown up to look.
The Pennsylvania Startup Betting That Silicon Still Has Room to Run
Everyone said the next leap in power electronics had to come from exotic materials. iDEAL Semiconductor bet it could wring more out of plain silicon - and now its chips are shipping from a Minnesota fab.
Waymo Has Left the Lab. Now It Has to Teach Cities to Trust an Empty Driver’s Seat
Alphabet’s robotaxi company has turned autonomous driving into a service people can summon. Its next test is less cinematic and more difficult: making safety, fleet economics and public trust work in city after city.
Cadillac Is Rewiring a 124-Year-Old Luxury Machine
The brand that once made tailfins a national mood is attempting a harder trick: carrying American luxury into the electric age without sanding off its personality.
Volkswagen Built an American Car Company Inside a German Icon
Volkswagen of America sells more than cars. It translates a global industrial system into an American ownership experience - from Chattanooga assembly and dealer financing to the ID. Buzz, myVW and a second-generation Atlas.
Pirelli Makes the Only Tyres in Formula 1 - and a Calendar It Won't Sell You
For 154 years the Milan tyremaker has chased a single idea: power is nothing without control. Today that means sensors buried inside the rubber, 3,800 factory-approved fitments, and a grip on the premium car that its bigger rivals can't quite copy.
VinFast Built Vietnam's EV Market. Now It Has to Prove the Model Travels
The Vietnamese automaker grew by treating electric mobility as a system - cars, scooters, chargers, fleets and factories. Its next road runs through Southeast Asia and India, with the economics still under construction.
Tesla Wants to Sell You a Car - Then Replace the Grid Around It
The company that made the electric car feel inevitable is now trying to turn vehicles, batteries, chargers and software into one enormous machine. The cars still pay most of the bills, but Tesla's next argument is about infrastructure.
The $5.1 Billion Company Hiding in Plain Sight on 30 Million Cars
Axalta’s name is rarely visible, but its chemistry sits on millions of vehicles, factory parts and buildings. Now the coatings specialist is turning paint into a system of color data, robotics and manufacturing efficiency - just as a pending merger could redraw its market.
The Truck Company Quietly Building the Operating System for Tough Work
From fire engines and boom lifts to airport robots and the Postal Service's next delivery van, Oshkosh turns hard jobs into a shared engineering problem. Its century-old trick is making technology travel between machines that rarely appear in the same conversation.
Warren Henry Auto Group
How a father's Bronx car lot became a $1 billion, seven-story, EV-wired empire selling everything from a $25,000 Toyota to a Koenigsegg hypercar under one North Miami roof.
Stellantis
Fourteen car brands, one Dutch holding company, and a bet that a constellation beats a single star. Inside the automaker stitched together from Jeep, Peugeot, Fiat and Maserati - and the reset now under way.
TE Connectivity
It is one of the largest companies most people have never heard of - the connector and sensor maker behind your car, your factory floor, and the AI data centers everyone else is busy hyping.
Ford Motor Company
Ford put America on wheels by mastering the moving line. Its next act is harder: turning trucks, fleet data, finance and software into one business without pricing ordinary drivers out of the future.
General Motors
The Detroit giant is using the cash, scale and customer reach of its truck-and-SUV machine to build something broader: an automaker that also sells software, subscriptions, financing and power for the home.
Bell Resources
Bell Resources is building AI-powered Roadside Hubs that fold ultra-fast EV charging, automated car washing, clean energy and smart retail into a single connected stop.
RoboDock
RoboDock is a San Francisco robotics startup (Y Combinator W26) building the physical automation layer for electric and autonomous vehicle depots. Its robots plug in chargers, align to charge ports with vision guidance, and run post-trip inspections using visual and thermal sensing - turning depots that still rely on people walking rows of vehicles into self-running infrastructure. Founded in 2025 by Stanford classmates Zinny Weli (CEO) and Celine Wang (CTO), the company offers its system as a retrofit that drops into existing facilities without layout changes.
Moove
Moove is an African-born global mobility fintech that finances vehicles for gig-economy drivers who are shut out of traditional bank lending. Using alternative, revenue-based credit scoring built on ride-hailing and delivery earnings, Moove lets drivers on platforms like Uber lease brand-new cars and pay them off through a share of their weekly income - a 'drive it, own it' model. Founded in Lagos in 2020 by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, it now operates one of the world's largest managed ride-hail fleets and has become Waymo's autonomous-fleet operations partner across major US and UK cities.
Blue Current, Inc.
Blue Current is a Hayward, California solid-state battery developer building what it calls a 'silicon-first,' fully dry battery platform. Its Silicon Elastic Composite chemistry ties glass-ceramic electrolyte particles to silicon anode particles with compliant polymers, constraining silicon swelling so high-silicon cells can cycle stably at low pressure without flammable liquids or PFAS. Positioned as a safety-focused, B2B licensing and pilot-manufacturing company, Blue Current targets electric mobility, grid-scale storage, and consumer devices, and closed an $80M+ Series D extension led by Amazon in December 2025.
ePropelled
ePropelled is a New Hampshire-based engineering company that designs intelligent electric motors, motor controllers, starter generators and power-management systems for uncrewed vehicles across air, land and sea. Built on patented magnetics technology - including its Dynamic Torque Switching (eDTS) architecture that reconfigures motor windings on the fly to boost efficiency - the company supplies drone and UAV manufacturers, defense programs and industrial customers with lightweight, high-efficiency propulsion. Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Nick Grewal, ePropelled raised a $15M Series A in 2021 and has grown to roughly 110 employees with operations in the US, UK and India.
Enpower Greentech Inc.
Enpower Greentech is a battery maker building the next generation of lithium-metal and solid-state cells. Founded in 2012 by two post-docs from Nobel laureate John Goodenough's lab, the company designs semi-solid, quasi-solid, and all-solid-state batteries with energy densities pushing past 500 Wh/kg. Its cells power industrial drones, eVTOL aircraft, high-altitude pseudo-satellites, and electric vehicles, and it says it has shipped more than 3 million cells across its SWIFT, FLEET, and KOSMOS platforms from facilities in the US, China, Japan, and Germany.