Amy Feldman is a Forbes senior editor, covering industrial innovation and climate-oriented technology. She also co-authors the Current Climate newsletter and edits the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list.
In India, a brutal heat crisis – that sent temperatures in New Delhi above 115 degrees Fahrenheit – had local governments warning people to avoid staying outside. And in Miami, local meteorologists are calling the extreme heat of recent days, where temperatures reached 96 degrees before summer had even begun,
A recent report from the ICF Climate Center called extreme heat “one of the deadliest and most widespread climate change risks,” and found that extreme heat could disproportionately hit disadvantaged communities across America.
Contrast that approach with the one taken by rival Hertz, which made headlines in 2021 and 2022 when it announced plans to purchase 100,000 Teslas and to electrify 25% of its fleet by the end of 2024. Despite aggressive discounting, it struggled to rent them. In March, Hertz ousted its CEO. A month later the company said it expects to lose $440 million selling off half its electric vehicles.
We’ve started to come down in the price window, where there are volume increases. Biosurfactants. We’ve worked out how nature makes soap and we can make it efficiently through biotechnology. The nice thing there is we’ve got a material that actually outperforms traditional petrochemical-based materials. These natural surfactants produce much better skin feel and they don’t cause the potential irritation that you normally get from petrochemical-based ones.
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