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Remora is a fast-growing startup backed by top investors like Y Combinator and Chris Sacca. They are working to reduce the world’s carbon emissions as rapidly as possible, and, in the process, to build power for disenfranchised communities.
The company builds a device that captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. The company's founders include a former EPA scientist who pioneered mobile carbon capture during her Ph.D., and a former diesel mechanic turned engineer who built electric semi-trucks for some of the world’s largest automotive companies.
Remora's device captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck, and sells the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end-users, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments. The company's device retrofits onto existing trucks, mounting between the truck and its trailer, attaching to its tailpipes, and capturing at least 80% of its carbon emissions.
Drivers offload the captured carbon dioxide while refueling. While Remora sells the carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end-users, Remora splits that revenue with their customers. Adding the company's device to one truck is equivalent to planting 6,200 trees. With biofuel, Remora's device makes a truck carbon negative, driving the world’s emissions backward.
The device of the company does not have a fleet turnover. It retrofits existing diesel trucks, and it works with any model. Unlike electrification, their solution does not require replacing every truck on the road. The device also has a longer range, capturing carbon dioxide for 600-1,200 miles before an offload, offering hundreds of miles more range than a battery, and hydrogen-electric trucks. The device has more payload, wherein a diesel truck with the device hauls nearly 4 tons more payload than a hydrogen-electric truck and 3-8 tons more payload than a battery-electric truck. The device also offloads the captured carbon dioxide in less than 5 minutes, unlike hydrogen trucks that take more than 20 minutes to refuel, and battery electric trucks that take around 30-60 minutes to recharge.
