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Venture capitalists looking for wins from advanced battery start-ups, methanol fuel cells

Even in a down economy, millions of dollars are flowing into start-up companies working on advanced batteries for plug-in vehicles and methanol fuel cells. Three companies operating in the less-sexy side of the new automotive industry – Seeo, CFX and Oorja Protonics – have all raised millions for their operations. Seeo and CFX are both lithium battery research companies, with Seeo working on solid electrolytes for lithium polymer batteries and CFX developing lithium carbon-fluoride based batteries. Seeo raised $8.6 million (after ... Read more →

ZAP Electric gets up to $25 million (give or take) in fresh funding Sam Abuelsamid

For a company whose reputation such as it is has more often been made on the frequency of its press releases than the actual products it sells Zap has been relatively quiet of late. The last big ...

Coda Automotive gets new investment from Henry Paulson, Piper Jaffray Sam Abuelsamid

As Coda Automotive continues its long march toward eventual production of its new EV sedan a year from now, one of things it will need is cash. Plenty of it. The company has beefed up its cash ...

Which electric car comany is Kleiner Perkins betting millions on next? Sebastian Blanco

The last time we heard about the goings on at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers it was as part of Fisker's 85 million VC funding announcement. Kleiner Perkins is saying it has more money to ...

Fisker claims another $85 million in VC funding Sebastian Blanco

Following the announcement of 30 dealers signed up to sell its $87,900 luxury plug-in hybrids, Fisker Automotive has just announced another bit of good news: another $85 million in a fourth round ...

Auto X Prize suggests teams try winning venture capital, press venues first 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the problems for some of the smaller teams that want to win part of the $10 million Automotive X Prize is that they might not have enough funds to get their cars into the streets for the competition. The X Prize team is looking out for them, though, and recently posted a notice about Startup ...

Fisker closes $65 million series funding round 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Fisker Automotive has been quiet for the past two months since the announcement that the cars would be built in Finland by Valmet. As we know, mass producing cars is an enormously expensive proposition which means any company that wants to get into the business has to raise some serious cash. With ...

Phoenix Motorcars trying to raise some venture capital cash 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last week Phoenix Motorcars revealed that they are delaying production of their sport utility truck until at least the early part of 2008. One of the reasons mentioned for the delay was due to finalizing their financing package. Apparently they have been trying to raise some venture capital ...

Venture Vehicles gets $6 Million in Venture Capital 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click the VentureOne to enlarge and see a gallery Venture Vehicles, the company working on the articulated three wheeled VentureOne vehicle, has just taken a big step toward financial sustainability for itself. They've received $6 million in Series A venture capital funding from NGEN Partners. ...

Venture Capital jumps into the lobbying game for alternative fuels 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

For established businesses, when they want to expand they often go where the money is. In the venture capital business, the investors go where they think the money is going to be sometime in the future. Most people became aware of VCs in the nineties when they started pouring billions of dollars ...

A123 batteries gets another $40 million in funding 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

One of the hot battery companies in the electric vehicle space right now is A123 systems. They just announced another round of venture funding of $40 million, bringing their total so far to $102 million. The main investor this time was General Electric Commercial Finance which had already ...


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