Advice
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Home charging is the basis for happiness—but so is knowing what your EV needs on a road trip.
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Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2025The 2025 VW ID.Buzz EV hits all the right retro cues, and more importantly might change the shape of the future.
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Rivian R1S: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2025 finalistAhead of the mass-market R2, Rivian’s R1 lineup has been quietly remade for 2025.
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Porsche Macan Electric: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2025 finalistThe Macan Electric broadens the greening of the performance vehicle landscape that Porsche started with Taycan.
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Kia EV9: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2024The three-row electric crossover reaches out to families in a way no EV has yet.
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EVs under $40,000: What's coming in 2024 and 2025Prepare for the imminent arrival of the affordable electric car under $40,000—or so we're told.
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The Toyota Prius Prime gets the most out of a small battery pack, in a better-looking car that's more fun to drive than its predecessor.
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Hyundai Ioniq 6: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2024 finalistThe Ioniq 6 looks like the future, but that’s just the start for this standout electric sedan that outdoes the Model 3 in many respects.
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Best Car To Buy 2024: Green Car Reports names 4 finalistsThe Kia EV9, Hyundai Ioniq 6, Nissan Ariya, and Toyota Prius Prime are the final contenders. One of these new-this-year models will be the 2024 Best Car To Buy.
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Hyundai Ioniq 5: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalistThe 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 2021The 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 techFrom 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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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 finalistThe 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 finalistThe 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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2020 hindsight: What did Leaf, Volt, and other best green cars of 2010 teach us?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 finalistThe 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 dealsEven as 2019 models are cleared away, the 2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is eligible for a great new lease deal.
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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 rangePlug-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 rangeAs we head into 2020, here are the plug-in hybrids that go the longest on a charge without tailpipe emissions.
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Porsche Taycan: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeAll 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 nomineeThe 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 cutHere are the vehicles—many of them good green-vehicle picks—left on the cutting-room floor.
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