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The Ioniq 5 sets a new standard for design, efficiency, and charging tech among mass-market EVs, but its lack of mass-market availability is a letdown.
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Ford Mustang Mach-E: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021
The Mustang Mach-E is the first non-Tesla SUV to hit 300 miles, and with pony-car heritage cues it takes electric cars somewhere new.
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GCR’s Best Car To Buy 2021 nominees pair efficiency with leading-edge tech
From next-generation interfaces and sophisticated driver aids to over-the-air updates, the Best Car To Buy contenders are by no means no-frills.
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With electric trucks and SUVs coming, is it time to reevaluate what a green car means?
Going fully electric is good, but do the plus-sized battery packs of upcoming electric trucks still make them worth pointing to as green picks?
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Tesla Model Y: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist
The Tesla Model Y remains more energy-efficient than any non-Tesla long-range EV, and with strong sales, its impact is significant.
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Polestar 2: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist
The Polestar 2 electric car was engineered partly in Sweden and is made in China; with emphases on sustainability and performance, it's intriguing but expensive.
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Ten years later, plug-in hybrids like the Chevy Volt are still struggling to achieve that model's functionality and popularity, but the Nissan Leaf was the start of something big.
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Volvo XC40 Recharge: Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist
The 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge qualifies for our Best Car To Buy 2021 finalists for its style, packaging, and technology, even though the small electric crossover lacks the range of some competitors.
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2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid $249 lease tops June plug-in, hybrid, electric car deals
Even as 2019 models are cleared away, the 2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is eligible for a great new lease deal.
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Audi E-Tron: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020
We can’t think of a single fully electric vehicle that fits so well into a carmaker’s lineup the way that the E-Tron SUV does.
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Short sights: The plug-in hybrids with the least electric range
Plug-in hybrids can be difficult to understand in many respects. Here are five that simply don't deliver on the all-electric driving.
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Second-best: Chevy Volt is gone, so here are the plug-in hybrids with the longest range
As we head into 2020, here are the plug-in hybrids that go the longest on a charge without tailpipe emissions.
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All of the Porsche Taycan models offer all-wheel drive, and all of them get close to the original concept’s 600-hp target and super-fast charging.
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Audi E-Tron: Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee
The 2019 Audi E-Tron fits in—as a well-styled, contemporary SUV, as a superb luxury vehicle, and as an Audi.
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GCR Best Car To Buy 2020: Green cars that didn't make the cut
Here are the vehicles—many of them good green-vehicle picks—left on the cutting-room floor.
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Tesla Model S vs. Porsche Taycan: How the two electric cars compare
Two premium electric cars from Tesla and Porsche offer similar acceleration numbers and overall dimensions but vary greatly in many other ways.
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Best deals on plug-in, electric, and hybrid cars for June 2019
This month, rising interest rates and sparse inventories are cutting into the great deals that automakers have recently offered on plug-in and electric cars. Still, our partners at CarsDirect found some deals as low as $179 a month on electric cars this month. That deal, however, is on the Fiat...
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Best deals on plug-in, hybrid, and electric cars for May 2019
With rising interest rates and falling federal plug-in vehicle tax credits on some models, the best deals on electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and conventional hybrids are a little harder to find versus a few months ago. Our partners at CarsDirect.com still found some leases on plug in cars as low as...
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Reader receives some misleading information about electric cars, batteries, and manufacturing. We respond with facts and reason.
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2019 Nissan Leaf Plus vs. 2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Which electric car is best?
We’re a long way from peak electric car, but we’ve finally left base camp. Big strides in battery capacity mean that picking between the 238-mile 2019 Chevy Bolt EV and the recently boosted 226-mile 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus comes down to a dozen miles of range. After a week behind the...
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Best deals on electric, plug-in, and hybrid cars for April 2019
Great deals on 2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV, Kia Niro plug-in hybrid, and Ford Fusion hybrid sedans can be found all month.
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Electric crossover charge: These are the rivals to the Tesla Model Y
As Tesla finds its sea legs as a larger-scale global automaker, the launch of the Model Y small crossover is its most critical test since the California company started in 2003. No other Tesla has faced this much competition. No other Tesla has faced much of any. When Tesla first delivered the...
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Tesla Model 3 vs. Polestar 2: How the two electric cars compare
Among electric car rivalries, traditional roles can sometimes be upended. That's the case for the firebrand Tesla Model 3, which plays an unfamiliar role as established rival against Volvo's electric-car upstart, the Polestar 2. The Tesla Model 3 has been on sale in the U.S. since 2017, and the...
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Green Car Reports is 10!
Ten years ago this week, in February 2009, Green Car Reports published its first story—one packed with insight regarding the Chevrolet Volt, which was then still nearly two years away. Despite all that could have happened to the Volt in GM’s bankruptcy, it arrived on time and was...
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