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Electric Cars July 14, 2018

Tesla sales, rebates ending, oil studies, and dirty tricks: The Week in Reverse

Which brand's electric cars won't get a tax credit after next year? Which electric car is in extremely short supply? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car...

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2018 Tesla Model S and 2018 Tesla Model X

Tesla sells 200,000th car, starting phaseout of federal tax credits

Tesla's vehicle purchase incentives web page on Thursday morning reported that the wind-down of incentives for buyers of its cars has begun. The change was first noted and... read more July 12, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Electric car rebates end in Ontario, Canada

Following the election of Conservative Doug Ford as premier July 7, Ontario, Canada, has canceled the province's generous tax incentives for electric cars, according to an... read more July 12, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

2017 Volkswagen e-Golf, first drive, New York City, April 2017

VW eGolf supply, rising oil prices in 2020, and an electric double-decker bus: Today's Car News

The Volkswagen eGolf is in extremely short supply. Analysts forecast oil prices may double by 2020. Los Angeles introduces the first electric double-decker bus. And Ontario... read more July 12, 2018 by Sean Szymkowski

VW e-Golf in very short supply as company prepares for ID Crozz electric car

As VW gears up to begin selling its new ID line of electric cars, supplies of its existing electric car, the e-Golf have dropped to just 10 cars nationwide, according to our... read more July 12, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Oil prices could double by 2020, boosting electric car sales

Despite short term peaks and valleys, and a recent agreement by OPEC to ease production restrictions, the overall trend in oil prices is on the rise. That's the conclusion of... read more July 12, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Electric double-decker bus by Alexander Dennis

LA gets first double-decker electric city bus

When thinking of Los Angeles, clean air and double-decker buses aren't the first things that come to mind. Yet the city of angels will put the first all-electric... read more July 12, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

BMW iX3 production, Fisker solid-state batteries, and Tesla self-driving price bump: Today's Car News

BMW will build the iX3 electric car in China. Fisker claims it has a three-year head start on solid-state batteries. Tesla increases the price of a self-driving car function... read more July 11, 2018 by Sean Szymkowski

Tesla raises price of full self-driving option–if you wait for it to work before buying

Tesla has increased the price of a feature that doesn't yet exist—at least for customers who haven't bought it yet. That's according to Tesla's online configurator... read more July 11, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Oil interests lobby against carbon tax before it even gets proposed

Those who make big money off oil interests are wasting no time nipping a new carbon tax in the bud. Before such a proposal ever reaches Congress, a coalition of conservative... read more July 11, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Henrik Fisker is latest to claim solid-state battery breakthrough (Updated)

In the race to build solid state batteries for electric cars, almost nobody is counting on Henrik Fisker and his latest electric-car venture, the EMotion, which debuted at... read more July 11, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

BMW iX3 to be built in China, exported worldwide

BMW has announced it will build its next electric car, the iX3 SUV, in China just as a trade war heats up between the U.S. and China involving cars-and in particular... read more July 11, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range electric car, road test in greater Atlanta area, Feb 2018

Tesla's Chinese factory, EPA OKs glider trucks, and new material for electric-car batteries: Today's Car News

Tesla inks a deal to build a new factory in Shanghai. The EPA has given the OK to dirtier glider trucks. A new material could make for better electric-car batteries. And we... read more July 10, 2018 by Sean Szymkowski

Tesla inks deal to build second factory in Shanghai

A day after it announced price hikes for the Model S and Model X in China, in response to new tariffs on imported electric cars in the country, Tesla has finalized a deal to... read more July 10, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

Adding oxygen and cobalt to the cathode prevents lithium from breaking chemical bonds

Iron trifluoride could make better electric-car batteries

Researchers at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new battery cathode material that they say could triple the... read more July 10, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt [photo from 2014]

Pruitt leaves poison pill at EPA for glider-truck emissions rule

In his last act as EPA Administrator on Friday, Scott Pruitt vacated an Obama-era ruling that dramatically restricted sales of polluting "glider" trucks. Pruitt's earlier... read more July 10, 2018 by Eric C. Evarts

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