Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher is a senior writer and analyst covering transportation for GreenBiz Group, and chair of VERGE Transport. She’s been a journalist writing about emerging technology and entrepreneurs for over a decade, including as a reporter for Fortune Magazine, Gigaom and Red Herring. She’s also led the editorial development of eight annual conferences including Fortune’s Brainstorm E and Gigaom’s Roadmap and Green:Net conferences.

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Why the electric vehicle wave is still coming

April 29, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

Buckle up: this year will be rough, but this road trip still looks promising.

America is terrible at building things. Let's fix that, starting with transportation

April 22, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

Respected venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is calling for a resurgence of U.S. manufacturing and transportation projects. We should build things such as EV charging infrastructure, zero-emissions public transit and protected lanes for micromobility.

How COVID-19 will redesign urban mobility

April 15, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

Despite the hard transportation times for public transit and micromobility, it's not all doom and gloom.

Dirty air, tailpipes and COVID-19

April 1, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

Air pollution impacts how the human body can fight infections and viruses. Coronavirus mortality rates could become another galvanizing force for cleaning up the air and simultaneously lowering carbon emissions.

COVID-19 pandemic shines spotlight on flexible, digital freight

March 25, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

There have generally been three waves of logistics problems that have emerged alongside the novel coronavirus outbreak. Analytics and artificial intelligence are helping solve them.

Will COVID-19's transport slowdown stick?

March 18, 2020

ByKatie Fehrenbacher

It takes a global pandemic — and subsequent ordered and self-imposed quarantines — to really expose just how dependent societies are on mobility and transportation.