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Electric Car Sales In Europe: Most Going To Rental Fleets?

Europe has been the source of some excitement over electric cars in recent months, as several new models have all hit the market in quick succession. The third-generation Smart Electric Drive arrived at the end of last year, and the last few months have seen the new Renault Zoe and 2013 Nissan Leaf...

April 17, 2013 by Antony Ingram

Got An Energy-Efficient Household? Drive Electric For Free!

April 16, 2013 17

Worst Thing About The Tesla Model S? Driving Anything Else Afterwards

April 16, 2013 77

2014 Cadillac ELR: Variable Electric Regen Via Paddle Shifters

April 15, 2013 5

2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive (European version)

2013 Smart Electric Drive To Offer Battery Leasing In U.S.

It seems automakers in Europe have found the key to increasing electric car sales: battery leasing. With 97 percent of European Smart Fortwo Electric Drive customers choosing... April 15, 2013 by Antony Ingram 6

2013 Fiat 500e electric car, Los Angeles drive event, April 2013

2013 Fiat 500e Electric Car: First Drive

The 2013 Fiat 500e may be a compliance car, but its engineers created an electric car that's so much fun to drive that seemingly they want it to be more. And with remarkably... April 13, 2013 by John Voelcker 16

Tesla owners & supporters gather in Statehouse in Austin to support company [photo: John Griswell]

Tesla Testifies In Texas, Takes On State's Auto Dealers Over Stores

Texas is tough, and Texas car dealers are no exception. But electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], in the person of its CEO Elon Musk, testified yesterday at a... April 11, 2013 by John Voelcker 10

2014 Chevrolet Spark EV On Time, Unaffected By A123 Failure

As Fisker Automotive seemingly enters very public death throes, and its battery supplier A123 Systems works to get back to business after a bankruptcy sale, another electric... April 10, 2013 by John Voelcker 13

2013 Tesla Model S electric sport sedan [photo by owner David Noland]

Life With 2013 Tesla Model S: How A Software Update Worked

One of the many cutting-edge features of my new 2013 Tesla Model S is the ability to download software updates over its cellular connection. With its touch-screen controls... April 9, 2013 by David Noland 10

Life With 2013 Tesla Model S: Range Penalty At Speed Is Lower Than Expected

I've been surprised and delighted by how efficiently my new 2013 Tesla Model S has been running at higher speeds. Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] hammers home the message that high... April 8, 2013 by David Noland 16

2013 Chevrolet Volt - Driven, December 2012

2014 Chevrolet Volt Orders Start In May, Two New Colors Offered

Seems like just yesterday that we wrote about the very first Chevrolet Volt delivery--in December 2010, actually. Now the range-extended electric car is about to enter its... April 7, 2013 by John Voelcker 4

2012 Fisker Karma EcoChic, New York City, Jan 2012

Fisker Karma: Range Extended Electric Car Ultimate Guide

Make a car desirable enough, and people will buy it whatever is powering the wheels. That's the theory anyway, but in a world of unease over the suitability of electric cars... April 6, 2013 by Antony Ingram 3

2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevy Volt, with charging station visible; photo by George Parrott

Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, March 2013

If last month's U.S. plug-in electric car sales figures could be characterized as "March Madness" -- Leaf sales tripled, Tesla took the Q1 sales crown, but the Mitsubishi... April 5, 2013 by Matthew Klippenstein 6

Henrik Fisker, CEO & founder, Fisker Automotive, at 2012 Fisker Karma event, Los Angeles, Feb 2012

Fisker Lays Off Most Of Its Employees; Is This The Final Blow?

Newspapers keep in their files pre-written obituaries for people who are old, known to be ill, or famous. We have a feeling we should start dusting off the one we wrote... April 5, 2013 by John Voelcker 8

Historical Prices & Specific Energy Trends for Li-Ion Batteries (Duke University, 2009)

Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries: Slow & Steady Wins The Race

Did your parents ever tell you, "Slow and steady wins the race"? It can be annoying to hear as a child, but often it's true--and in the case of electric car batteries, it's... April 5, 2013 by John Voelcker 30

Green Car Reports editor John Voelcker discusses Electric Car Myths & Realities, March 2013

Electric-Car Myths & Realities And NYC Rollout Plans (Videos)

If you publish thousands of stories a year, sometimes you get asked to speak to groups of people about your topic. Which is how we came to talk about electric cars and try to... April 4, 2013 by John Voelcker 7

Conquering Electric-Car Range Anxiety: A Complete Guide

Range Anxiety. Two very familiar words, but their coming together is more recent. It's the fear of running out of electricity in an electric car, compounded by typically... April 4, 2013 by Antony Ingram 21

March Plug-In Electric Car Sales: Tesla On Top, Leaf Roars Back (FINAL UPDATE)

The big news in plug-in car sales for March was Tesla's statement that it delivered "more than 4,750" Model S electric cars from January through March. That news early Monday... April 3, 2013 by John Voelcker 75

'Revenge of the Electric Car' premiere: Elon Musk arrives in a Tesla Roadster

Oh, Tesla: Your 'Lease' Is Smart, But That Calculator Wasn't

Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, just before 5 pm Eastern time, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] released details of its new "lease-like" financing product. The general... April 3, 2013 by John Voelcker 24