Top 43 Energy-efficient Transportation startups

Updated: Dec 31, 2025
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These startups develop and operate new sustainable transportation systems like shared mobility platforms, hyperloops, electric vehicles, smart roads, intelligent traffic management systems, etc.
1
Nevoya
Country: USA | Funding: $12.3M
Nevoya is a transportation company using exclusively electric trucks. It purchases electric trucks and transports freight for Fortune 500 companies (seeking to lower carbon emissions) at prices comparable to those of similarly sized diesel trucks. Nevoya achieves this efficiency through the use of artificial intelligence. It uses AI to optimize trucking routes, selecting and balancing loads with suitable trucks for maximum efficiency while minimizing energy consumption. The company also uses AI to optimize charging schedules and battery management, as well as early fault detection, thereby reducing maintenance costs.
2
Vay
Country: Germany | Funding: $191.8M
Vay offers a car-sharing service with remotely-controled car delivery. Professionally trained drivers operate car with special simulator with steering wheel, pedals and other controls designed to meet automotive industry standards. Customer request a car using a mobile app and drives themselves. This allows efficient car-sharing in smart cities with fewer vehicles. Vay is also implementing autonomous driving features for driving on highways or at low speeds, to reduce load on remote drivers. The company intends to gradually introduce autonomous features into the system as soon as they become safe and legal.
3
Lime
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
4
The Boring Company
Country: USA | Funding: $913M
The Boring Company aims to dig tunnels efficiently to facilitate an underground transportation network.
5
Via
Country: USA | Funding: $887.1M
Via transforms transit systems into efficient digital networks.
6
Volocopter
Country: Germany | Funding: $544.4M
Volocopter produces electric air taxis VoloCity for transporting people in cities and suburbs. According to the company, its eVTOL aircraft is silent, environmentally friendly and as safe as commercial airlines. The compact design, combined with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities, makes it ideal for flights in cities and terrain inaccessible to other modes of transport. The company has also developed the VOLOIQ software platform, which serves as the foundation of the Volocopter urban air mobility ecosystem. Powered by artificial intelligence, it provides technologically advanced analytics for fleet management and optimization. It uses AI to predict weather, distribute flights among passengers, optimize aircraft charging, process safety data from multiple sensors, predict breakdowns, and create optimal maintenance schedules. Acquired by Diamond Aircraft
7
Zum
Country: USA | Funding: $399.6M
Zūm brings student transportation into a new age enabling equity, innovation, efficiency, and sustainability
8
Volta Trucks
Country: Sweden | Funding: $390.9M
Volta Trucks is building an electric truck. For today's cities and tomorrow's generations.
9
Amogy
Country: USA | Funding: $355.3M
Amogy builds an innovative clean energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel
10
ZeroAvia
Country: USA | Funding: $306M
ZeroAvia enables zero emission air travel at scale, starting with 500 mile short-haul trips, at half of today’s cost.
11
Optibus
Country: Israel | Funding: $260M
Optibus is a developer of an AI-enabled SaaS platform for planning and running mass transportation.
12
Booster
Country: USA | Funding: $213.6M
Booster focuses on energy delivery, integrated logistics, and providing solutions for decarbonizing last-mile delivery.
13
Passport
Country: USA | Funding: $213.5M
With Passport, cities can easily analyze scooter usage, parking patterns and curb utilization. Passport also enables cities to implement real-time curbside pricing and payments and better manage scooter placement.
14
Heart Aerospace
Country: Sweden | Funding: $147.2M
Heart Aerospace is a Swedish startup making electric regional airplanes.
15
Aegis Energy
Country: UK | Funding: £100M
Aegis Energy is building a network of 50 environmentally friendly multi-purpose charging stations across the UK (with a goal of 30 by 2030). The network is specifically designed for commercial vehicles (trucks and vans) and offers electric charging, HVO, hydrogen and bio-CNG. The stations feature dedicated parking for oversized and non-standard cargos and trucks. Drivers are provided with a mobile app to find the nearest station, monitor and control the charging process and pay for charging sessions with a single click. While their vehicles are charging, drivers can use clean toilets and showers, enjoy quality food and relax in quiet rest areas.
16
Wingcopter
Country: Germany | Funding: $119.6M
Wingcopter is a manufacturer of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide.
17
Hardt Global Mobility
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €36.4M
Hardt Hyperloop has emerged from the winning team at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, dedicated to realize the hyperloop
18
TransPod
Country: Canada | Funding: $36.7M
TransPod Inc. is a company dedicated to bringing the Hyperloop to reality.
19
Bound4blue
Country: Spain | Funding: $30.2M
Bound4blue is working on a unique renewable energy system for large vessels. It consists in the production of hydrogen and oxygen by means of electrolysis of seawater. The vessel is propelled by wind-driven wingsails, as water fills the ship’s turbines to produce mechanical energy, then transformed into electrical energy.
20
Cyvl.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $23.2M
Cyvl develops an AI-Powered Mapping platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage transportation infrastructure assets.
21
Populus
Country: USA | Funding: $19.9M
Populus is a platform for cities to manage the future of mobility.
22
Flipturn
Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
Flipturn engages in combat climate change by accelerating transportation electrification.
23
Nevomo
Country: Poland | Funding: $14.7M
Hyper Poland, the only company in the world able to gradually implement hyperloop-inspired solutions as an upgrade for the railway industry.
24
ePlane
Country: India | Funding: $14M
Eplane builds and develops electric air transportation systems.
25
Share Mobility
Country: USA | Funding: $12M
SHARE Mobility provides transportation solutions for companies.
26
Zeleros
Country: Spain | Funding: $12.3M
Zeleros is leading the hyperloop development or the so-called “the fifth means of transportation”.
27
OX Global
Country: UK | Funding: £6m
OX delivers clean, affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact.
28
Repos Energy
Country: India | Funding: ₹560M
Led by IoT, a Repose Petrol Pump can deliver fuel to the end customers through a simple mobile application
29
Guided Energy
Country: France | Funding: $5.2M
Guided Energy is a platform for fleets to charge and operate their electric vehicles.
30
Clem
Country: France
Clem developed a platform for managing eco-mobility stations. It's smart city electric vehicle car sharing operator to offer carpooling via our user interface. Customers can thus share their journeys and associated costs.
31
Clearly
Country: UK | Funding: $4.3M
AI driven SaaS platform for smarter mobility emission management for fleet owners, operators and customers.
32
Bluespace.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $3.7M
Bluespace.ai develops software systems for autonomous mass transit fleets. Bluespace.ai’s aim is to safely enable full-size vehicles that can travel on public roads at road speed, therefore serving more passengers at a time.
33
FeTu
Country: UK
FeTu specialises in reducing energy consumption and emissions through its self-developed two-stage turbine technology, which applications in the energy market and manufacturing industries including aerospace and marine.
34
Aviloo
Country: Austria | Funding: €2.2M
Aviloo aims to contribute to an emission-free transportation system of the future. The company has developed an independent testing system for batteries in electric vehicles. The company wants to bring an independent battery test to the market, taking out the uncertainty of a purchase of a used electric vehicle.
35
Alakai Technologies
Country: USA
Alaka'i develops helicopter-style electric craft called Skai that is using hydrogen fuel cells to produce electricity.
36
Nuwiel
Country: Germany | Funding: $106.9K
Nuwiel creates e-powered, emission-free bike trailer is based on sensor technology and knows exactly when to accelerate, decelerate and brake.
37
Comoab
Country: Sweden
Comoab develops continuous motion engine to improve energy efficiency and reduce pollution
38
Arrivo
Country: USA
Arrivo builds technology based on the hyperloop architecture that delivers a 21st century seamless experience for passengers and freight.
39
Powour
Country: Australia
Powour helps to tracks, encourages, and incentivizes active transportation activities, minimizing environmental impact .
40
Traverse Aero
Country: USA
Fast and efficient logistics. Delivering entire pallet-loads via fully autonomous cargo drones.
41
Greenspot
Country: Israel
Greenspot works with municipalities and landlords to develop infrastructure for electric vehicle charging stations and to offer electric car sharing.
42
NXT Motors
Country: Netherlands
NXT Motors is devoted to support the change in global mobility that is irreversibly shifting towards electric driving. The company develops electrical bikes
43
Voltify
Country: USA
Voltify is decarbonizing freight rail and eliminating CO2. Our mission is to make rail the cleanest mode of freight transportation worldwide.
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