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
Building Sustainable, Equitable Transit in Underserved Neighborhoods
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
The Lab
Alongside our focus in Mobility, Energy and Materials, Newlab has select Challenges where partnerships with industry leaders and founders leveraging emerging technologies are uniquely positioned to make an impact.
open Lab challenges
ETHICALLY DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, AND SCALING AI
INCREASING TEXTILE FUNCTIONALITY AND CIRCULARITY
ADVANCING HUMAN CONNECTION, TRANSLATION AND LANGUAGE SERVICES
ENABLING INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF ULTRA WIDEBAND 5G
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