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Vandana Gombar

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Editor @BloombergNEF Columnist, journalist, author...living in a world of words and ideas! Excited by global energy+mobility transition. Tweets personal!

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  • Nov 26, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Vandana Gombar

    Thanks for reading Hyperdrive, Bloomberg’s newsletter on the future of the auto world. Gobsmacked. That word sums up my first experience with a car that drove itself.

  • Aug 27, 2024 | about.bnef.com | Vandana Gombar

    By Vandana Gombar, Senior Editor, BloombergNEFBatteries are the next big green investment opportunity, the co-head of climate strategy at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Emmanuel Lagarrigue, told BloombergNEF. The first investment of the Climate Fund that KKR is finalizing was therefore a battery play: the UK’s Zenobe secured $750 million last year. Its other two investments so far are in US-based Avantus (solar, storage) and Spain’s Ignis (hydrogen).

  • Aug 6, 2024 | about.bnef.com | Vandana Gombar

    By Vandana Gombar, Senior Editor, BloombergNEFThere is one key question that decides where the Bezos Earth Fund’s $10 billion is deployed in the energy sector: will the proposal significantly accelerate the global energy transition? “My task is to find innovative ways to accelerate decarbonization,” Nicole Iseppi, the director of global energy innovation at the fund, told BloombergNEF.

  • May 17, 2024 | about.bnef.com | Vandana Gombar

    By Vandana Gombar, Senior Editor, BloombergNEFLeaving New York often starts with the long slog out to JFK. Joby Aviation wants to change that and says it is set to launch its electric air taxi service next year at a price that is comparable to a conventional premium cab. A trip will be cost competitive with the Uber Black service initially, and will become “an increasingly more affordable service,” JoeBen Bevirt, founder and chief executive officer of Joby, told BloombergNEF.

  • May 9, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Vandana Gombar

    Leaving New York often starts with the long slog out to JFK. Joby Aviation wants to change that and says it is set to launch its electric air taxi service next year at a price that is comparable to a conventional premium cab. A trip will be cost competitive with the Uber Black service initially, and will become “an increasingly more affordable service,” JoeBen Bevirt, founder and chief executive officer of Joby, told BloombergNEF.

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Vandana Gombar
Vandana Gombar @vgombars
12 Aug 24

The "big bets" being targeted by the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund - my interview https://t.co/Xd360mZIen

Vandana Gombar
Vandana Gombar @vgombars
5 Apr 24

Local #solar manufacturing is not easy to crack. Incentives for manufacturing+disincentives for imports may not yield desired outcome; where are subsidies most compelling? & where will the #methane buzz take us? @BloombergNEF @bsindia https://t.co/5msp5VBRBs

Vandana Gombar
Vandana Gombar @vgombars
21 Mar 24

RT @AkshatRathi: Every so often I think about how the world's largest lithium-ion battery company CATL is only a little more than a decade…