Best Car To Buy
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The Lucid Air gives Tesla some healthy competition, with technology that could bring about extensive change.
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Hyundai Ioniq 5: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist
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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Rivian R1T: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist
The Rivian R1T does more than show that electric trucks are possible. It shows that they can be better than gasoline trucks in many ways.
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Mercedes EQS: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist
The Mercedes EQS shows that the luxury establishment is ready to embrace EVs and, in some ways, it's a template for a decade of progress.
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Volkswagen ID.4: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist
VW's EV for the masses is due to be made in Tennessee in 2022, and it has the most ambitious sales targets among our Best Car To Buy finalists.
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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022: What didn't make the cut
Some of this year's most buzz-worthy models, including the GMC Hummer EV and Tesla Model S Plaid, didn't make the shortlist. Here's why.
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The Hyundai Ioniq 5, Lucid Air, Mercedes-Benz EQS, Rivian R1T, or Volkswagen ID.4 will win the Best Car To Buy distinction for 2022.
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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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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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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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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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Toyota RAV4 Prime: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist
With 42 miles of electric range and a rated 38 mpg as a hybrid, the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime gives a market bestseller leading-edge versatility.
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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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Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021: What didn't make the cut
Electric cars and plug-in hybrids that didn't make our list of finalists for 2021 generally failed to offer enough all-electric miles or were simply too late.
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One of these 5 vehicles will be Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2021
The Ford Mustang Mach-E, Polestar 2, Tesla Model Y, Toyota RAV4 Prime, or Volvo XC40 Recharge will win the Best Car To Buy distinction for 2021.
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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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Our Best Car To Buy honorary mention goes to the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, which is a poster car for clean-vehicle choices and how great hybrids can be.
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Green Car Reports’ Car of the Decade: Tesla Model S
The Tesla Model S forever changed the automotive market, the industry, and the electric car. Nothing else comes close.
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Porsche Taycan: Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee
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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Kia Niro EV: Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee
The Kia Niro EV is a strong electric-car value—especially if dependable miles of range for the dollar are important.
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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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