challenges
MOBILITY
ENERGY
materials

Collaboration between startups and industry partners
Newlab launches Challenges in energy, mobility and materials that require urgent action. Challenges are a call to action to bring startups and industry together on projects that drive commercial viability for solutions the world needs most.
- INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY insight
- REAL-WORLD PILOTS WITH STARTUPS
- PUBLIC-PRIVATE COALITIONS
- coordinated action at scale
Challenges in Flight:
mobility
Mobility accounts for 14% of global GHG emissions and relies more on fossil fuels than any other sector.
Accelerating purpose built urban infrastructure for electric vehicles and scaled adoption of sustainable fuels for heavy-duty transport and aviation.
Our founders are actively partnering with industry to pilot and scale frontier tech solutions at the intersection of electrification, logistics, sustainable fuels and urban infrastructure.







open mobility challenges

Providing safe, affordable and dependable electric micromobility charging

Activating low-altitude airspace for people & goods

Expanding multi-modal logistics to drive supply chain resilience

Scaling net-zero fuels and electrification in key corridors

energy
It is a global imperative to transition our energy systems—accounting for 35% of global GHG emissions, the most of any sector—toward renewable, clean and abundant sources, while reducing our demand for power.
We empower the entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists obsessed with commercializing the technologies required to decarbonize the economy and create accessible, low-cost energy.
Together, in collaboration with industry and government, our public-private partnerships lay the groundwork for deploying the frontier tech required for this multi-decade transition of our energy systems.
open energy challenges

Integrating safer energy storage for dense, urban environments

Decarbonizing hard to abate industries with renewable power-to-x applications

materials
The industrial processes required to create materials account for 21% of global GHG emissions.
Reimagining the utility of waste streams and advancing the promise of a growing bio-economy. The next Industrial Revolution is all about nature-based, closed-loop alternatives to petro-chemicals that actively decarbonize our planet.
Our entrepreneurs are building these companies, and our industrial partners are motivated to participate and drive the new economy around sustainable materials.
open materials challenges

Increasing the supply of critical minerals for the energy transition

Converting waste streams into new sustainable products
open Lab challenges

ETHICALLY DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, AND SCALING AI

INCREASING TEXTILE FUNCTIONALITY AND CIRCULARITY

ADVANCING HUMAN CONNECTION, TRANSLATION AND LANGUAGE SERVICES
