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The Hyundai Motor Group, encompassing both the Hyundai and Kia brands, is known as one of the most aggressive competitors in the global auto business. And the company has big plans for expanding its lineup of green vehicles, as we learned in an interview last week with Ki-Sang Lee, a senior vice president who's head of its R&D Center for "eco-friendly vehicles." We spoke with Lee and several other company executives at last week's Detroit Auto Show, at which the company launched its 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid models. The following questions have been condensed and...
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Hydrogen Stations In California: How Many Needed As Fuel-Cell Cars Arrive?
Wiithin two years, some Californians will be able to lease or buy a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle from at least three well-known carmakers: Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota. Their state is working hard to ensure that those drivers will have sites at which they can fuel those vehicles. DON'T MISS: Japan...
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Japan Eases Laws, Boosts Incentives For Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe endorses measures to encourage hydrogen-car adoption.
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Honda FCV Concept: Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Coming In 2016 (Live Photos)
The Honda FCV concept makes its North American debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show.
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Toyota Offers To License Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Patents, For Free
Toyota announced today that it would make more than 5,600 patents on fuel-cell technologies available for use, free of royalty payments, to a wide array of companies in the transportation sector. Those patents include many granted for innovations that led to the production version of the Japanese...
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Green Car Reports Scorecard: 3 Stories We Got Right In 2014, 3 We Didn't
We published roughly 1,800 stories on Green Car Reports this year, covering everything from fuel economy (it's rising) to electric cars (there are more on sale than ever). Every news site strives for 100-percent accuracy, but very few reach that mark. That's why there are Retractions sections in...
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Graphene could have a major impact on green cars.
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Lexus To Launch Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered LS Sedan: Report
Lexus may build a fuel-cell version of its LS sedan.
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Tax Credit For Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles Expires As Congress Adjourns
Congress lets a tax credit for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles expire.
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2016 Toyota Mirai: First Drive Of Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Sedan
The 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car will get a huge amount of promotion and attention from its maker, despite the very low numbers that will be built in its first years. In that respect, it's very similar to the first Toyota Prius hybrid back in 1997--a first sketch of what a future...
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What Does 'Getting Rid Of Gasoline' Mean? To Toyota, It's Hydrogen
Toyota's president makes the case for fuel-cell cars.
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Hybrids A Better, More Cost-Effective Way To Cut Carbon Today, Study Says
The hydrogen fuel-cell cars being promoted as the future of zero-emission transport--aggressively by Toyota, slightly less so by Honda and Hyundai--generate quite a lot of controversy. Now a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests that the wells-to-wheels carbon emissions of a...
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Two alternative powertrains are among Ward's 2015 "10 Best Engines."
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Nissan 'Quite Optimistic' About Electric Cars, Holding Off On Hydrogen
Nissan is sticking with battery-electric cars, an executive says.
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2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Car Will Alter Industry As Prius Did, Says Exec
Toyota hopes its fuel-cell car will have as big an impact as the Prius.
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle News From Los Angeles Auto Show
The biggest news in zero-emission vehicles at last month's Los Angeles Auto Show was the formal introduction of the 2016 Toyota Mirai. But several other companies made news in the hydrogen fuel-cell market as well. Here's our brief roundup of the hydrogen stories we covered in LA. 2016 Toyota Mirai...
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How Much Money Does The 2016 Toyota Mirai Lose? A Lot, Perhaps
All automakers expect to lose money at first when they launch expensive new powertrain technologies. But if one European official with deep experience in alternative-fuel infrastructure is right, the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan may be losing its maker quite a lot of money indeed...
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Tax Credit Expires This Month: Will It Be Renewed?
Financial and other incentives are widely viewed as a good way to kickstart the adoption of new green vehicles, largely to compensate for their higher prices against conventional gasoline cars. But just as Toyota is building up to next fall's launch of its 2016 Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle in...
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The lack of a way to accurately measure hydrogen being pumped is why the fuel is given away free.
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Volkswagen Passat HyMotion Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Prototype: Brief Drive
The 2016 Toyota Mirai may have been the biggest news in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles at last week's Los Angeles Auto Show, but it wasn't alone. VW Group brought two fuel-cell prototypes to the show's green-car ride and drive program, and we spent 15 minutes driving one. DON'T MISS: Volkswagen Golf...
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Volkswagen Golf SportWagen HyMotion: Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Concept At LA Auto Show
Very few compact wagons remain on sale in North America, but this year, the car known to U.S. buyers for years as the Jetta SportWagen has a new name: the 2015 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen. To reinforce the new wagon's new model name, VW showed off two concept Golf wagons at last week's Los Angeles...
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2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Car At Los Angeles Auto Show (Video)
The 2016 Toyota Mirai, seen here in its production form, is the first-ever hydrogen fuel-cell car to be offered for sale by a major automaker. It goes on sale in Japan next month, and will arrive in North America in the second half of next year. The four-seat mid-size sedan is effectively an...
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Fuel-Cell Fan Bites Back At Electric-Car Advocates, Asks 10 Questions Of His Own
Last week's Los Angeles Auto Show brought more news about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles than we've seen in a very long time. The 2016 Toyota Mirai was unveiled--we drove it too--and Honda showed its latest design concept for what it's calling the FCV sedan. Other makers too showed off experimental...
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Honda To Loan First Element $14 Million For Hydrogen Fueling Stations
Honda announced today at the Los Angeles Auto Show that it will loan almost $14 million to hydrogen station provider First Element Fuels to help it build an additional 12 fueling stations in California for upcoming hydrogen fuel-cell cars. The $13.8 million loan will be combined with grants from...
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