Volume 2, Issue 14 Earth Day Special enewsletter from Futurride Highlighting the inspirational tech for sustainable mobility and mobility equity that resonated most with the readers and editors in the last year. Please share this email with your connections so they can also join the movement and support our content development. Don't get left behind!

Spring Free EV launches fintech product for budding high-mileage EV fleet businesses EVInstaFleet is aimed at serving a growing market of entrepreneurs running high-mileage vehicle fleet businesses, giving ‘EV-preneurs’ simple, easy access to cars and capital for more equitable peer-to-peer car and ride-sharing vehicles.

Arc builds electric boat business in record time The Los Angeles-based electric boat startup’s limited-edition Arc One hits the water with help from high-profile and celebrity investors, paving the way for future boats at more mass-market price points as the company’s manufacturing capabilities mature.

U.S. DOE funding boosts Parallel Systems rail AV/EV development The agency selected the company to receive $4.5 million for advanced testing of its autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, which the CEO discussed exclusively with Futurride last month as an alternative to on-road trucking, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and highway congestion.

Beyond Polestar 5: building the carbon-neutral car team of 2030 After the Polestar 1 and 2, and the upcoming Polestars 3 through 5, the company has announced a collaboration initiative with partners like SSAB, Hydro, ZF, ZKW, and Autoliv to speed up the development of a climate-neutral car not dependent on planting trees to offset CO2 emissions.

Ford goes all electric with F-150 Lightning The long-awaited electric pickup sticks with the successful F-150 formula and look, but electrification comes with updated design details, a large and versatile front truck, a low entry price, and features meant to ease customers’ transition to the all-electric future.

Radian takes off to develop “world’s first” reusable spaceplane Emerging from stealth last week with seed funding led by Fine Structure Ventures, the startup is engineering a spaceplane that can fly to space, perform a mission, return, refuel, and fly again almost immediately.

Cake’s latest Electric Bush Bike strengthens its anti-poaching initiative The Ösa AP, introduced at the Outdoor Retailer Show in Denver last week, adds to the Swedish e-motorbike maker’s range for nearly silent anti-poaching movement aided by Goal Zero mobile solar charging to take the bikes deep into the bush.

Clean mobility for everyone, Lightyear style Several electrified concepts, including the new all-electric Wrangler Magneto 2.0, reveal a few more details of the Jeep brand’s mission of Zero Emission Freedom through concepts at the 56th Annual Moab Easter Jeep Safari.

Wabtec goes green to accelerate more sustainable rail The company has published its Green Finance Framework and recently demonstrated FLXdrive, said to be the world’s first 100% battery-powered, heavy-haul freight locomotive with 20,000 battery cells to cut the world’s carbon footprint.