Harri Weber

Senior Reporter, Climate, TechCrunch

Harri Weber was a senior writer at TechCrunch covering climate. Her work has also appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, VentureBeat, dot.LA, Input and The Next Web. Get in touch: harri@harri.fm

Harri Weber

Flexport, a logistics company with $2.7 billion in funding, is reportedly planning additional layoffs.

Flexport may lay off workers yet again

The Gates Foundation is pumping millions into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting palm oil alternatives.

Startup brewing waste to replace palm oil gets Gates Foundation cash

It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.

Tesla’s solar installs drop, but battery business is booming

“If you’re not making money, you’re not having impact,” said ArcTern Ventures managing partner Murray McCaig.

No impact without revenue? That’s ArcTern’s climate tech thesis

If the upcoming smart composter works as advertised, it’ll help households reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from food waste, while generating nutrient-rich fertilizer for gardens.

Reencle teases a hungrier, quieter home composter — for a price

Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Alphabet, aims to introduce a larger craft capable of towing heavier 5-pound packages.

Alphabet’s Wing supersizes delivery drones to tow big orders

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Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is.

Hydrogen vehicles never really caught on, and yet at CES 2024 fuel-cell vehicles of all sizes litter the show floor. What gives?

1:03 pm PST • January 11, 2024
Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is.

Like any good buzz phrase, “software-defined vehicle” is as straightforward as it is obtuse. If you’re trying to figure out what automakers and suppliers mean by this term — which…

WTF is a ‘software-defined vehicle?’

It’s not much to go on, but it’s still our closest look yet at Honda’s electrified future.

Honda bets its electric future on ‘thin, light’ 0 series EVs at CES 2024

Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid. The turbine is one out of 62 planned…

Big offshore wind farms are now transmitting sweet, sweet battery juice to the US grid

From the ElectraMeccanica Solo to the Honda e, let’s remember all the small and low(er)-priced electric vehicles that didn’t make it in 2023.

The small and affordable EVs we lost in 2023

Lucid chief financial officer Sherry House is leaving to “pursue other opportunities” just days after the automaker fell off the Nasdaq-100 index.

Lucid CFO bounces after Gravity SUV debut

Tesla’s warning to Cybertruck resellers and scalpers appears to be back. An apparent early Cybertruck buyer claims they spotted Tesla’s $50,000 legal threat again in an order agreement for the…

Tesla’s $50,000 threat to Cybertruck resellers may be back after all

Last week, Tesla dropped details on the Cybertruck and maxed-out Cyberbeast. After all that talk of supersized trucks, the North American release of the Fiat 500e buggy hits like a…

Fiat’s new EV looks like the anti-Cybertruck

Tesla’s lowest-priced vehicle, the rear-wheel-drive Model 3, won’t be eligible for the full $7,500 federal tax credit as of next year.  Tesla started warning buyers (and window-shoppers) on Monday that…

Tesla’s cheapest vehicle is losing half its tax credit next year

After four years, the long-awaited launch of the Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup has come and gone. The boxy vehicle is Tesla’s first new model since 2020, when it started delivering…

What’s up with Tesla’s Cybertruck? Everything to know about the much-hyped electric pickup

After keeping some key specs close to its proverbial chest, Tesla is finally sharing more details about the final production versions of the Cybertruck electric pickup. Tesla published battery, speed…

How the Tesla Cyberbeast compares to other high-priced electric pickups

Bad news: If you had your heart set on a sub-$40,000 Cybertruck, it ain’t coming next year, if ever. Though Tesla plans to ramp up production of its electric pickup…

Tesla’s cheapest Cybertruck won’t drop until 2025

Again Bio says its modified bacteria currently eats about a ton of CO2 per day. Spun out by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, Again Bio sics its hungry…

Again Bio’s bacteria eats exhaust and spits vinegar (for the climate)

“When is a bot a person?,” my colleague Kirsten asked after I learned that Polestar’s climate bot is more human than machine. Polestar launched its “Truth Bot” on X (formerly…

Polestar’s climate-tweeting bot isn’t actually a bot, for good reason

Teenage Engineering’s new $300 groovebox has no business being this cute. That’s the whole point. The EP-133 K.O.II (we’ll just call it Knock Out II) is a combination drum machine, synthesizer…

I’m trying so hard not to gush over Teenage Engineering’s latest gadget

Congestion fees are now live at some Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. Translation: Tesla says it will charge drivers an additional $1 per minute to juice their electric-vehicle batteries…

Tesla rolls out congestion pricing ahead of holiday travel season

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LA Auto Show: The tech, EVs and cars that got our attention

The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show is a wrap — for press, anyway. That means it’s time to recap the big launches, strange details, cars on display and peculiar absences we noticed this year. The highlights include the SUV that’ll make or break Lucid, Amazon’s auto fixation, a pickup that calls Tesla’s Cybertruck to mind…

10:04 am PST • November 17, 2023
LA Auto Show: The tech, EVs and cars that got our attention

EV maker Lucid took the long-awaited wraps off the Gravity, an all-electric three-row SUV with a range that could hypothetically leave a Tesla Model X, Fisker Ocean or Rivian R1S…

The all-electric Lucid Gravity SUV finally makes its debut with 440 miles of range

Tesla seems to be walking back the punitive limits it placed on buyers of its yet-to-be-released Cybertrucks. As recently as yesterday, a Tesla US order agreement page included a threat…

Tesla hits reverse on threat to sue Cybertruck resellers

Welcome to the future, where your car is a computer and a “fat finger” can grind your tunes to a halt. On Monday, Rivian put out — then abruptly canceled…

A software update bricked Rivian infotainment systems

Fossil fuel giant Exxon is betting its U.S. lithium operation will power a new generation of electric vehicles. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of tons of “recoverable” lithium, which…

Exxon wants to drill enough lithium out of Arkansas to power 1M EVs per year

We’re well past the revelation that automakers are software companies. But as the industry deepens its software roots, firms are still figuring out which upgrades they’ll charge for — and…

Rivian eyes software upcharges around AR and autonomy, not heated seats

Rivian vans are no longer an Amazon exclusive. The automaker said on Tuesday that it will now let other companies buy its commercial electric vans, ending an exclusivity deal that…

Rivian and Amazon are no longer exclusive

May Mobility has raised hundreds of millions from some of the biggest names in the auto industry, but if you haven’t heard of the autonomous vehicle startup yet, that’s apparently…

May Mobility rides the AV wave while Cruise and Waymo feel the heat