Best Car to Buy Winner

  • Kia EV9: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2024

    The three-row electric crossover reaches out to families in a way no EV has yet.

  • Ford F-150 Lightning: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023
    Ford F-150 Lightning: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023

    The Ford F-150 Lightning looks much like the gasoline F-150, but it drives better in almost every respect.

  • Lucid Air: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022
    Lucid Air: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022

    The Lucid Air gives Tesla some healthy competition, with technology that could bring about extensive change.

  • 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E first drive  -  Portland, OR
    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.

  • 2019 Audi E-Tron - Best Car To Buy 2020
    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.

  • 2018 Tesla Model 3
    Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019: Tesla Model 3

    The Tesla Model 3 is Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2019. It’s the second time a Tesla product has won our annual award, which was captured by the Tesla Model S in 2013. Many have called the Model 3 Tesla’s “iPhone moment.” But that was the Model S—the shock to an...

  • 2018 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid

    In 2011, Green Car Reports launched an award for the new car, or family of cars, that represented the best green vehicle introduced for the model year. The Nissan Leaf won that year because it was the sole affordable battery-electric vehicle on the market. Over the next seven years, more than two dozen vehicles that plug in to the grid to recharge a battery that powers them have entered the market. DON'T MISS: 2018 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid - full review This year, the Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018 is the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivan. One of a kind It wins because it's a...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, road test, California coastline, Sep 2016
    Chevrolet Bolt EV: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2017

    Each year, Green Car Reports chooses a new car, or a family of cars, as the best green car introduced in that model year. In 2011, our very first award, we picked the first-ever modern electric car to be sold in high volumes. Six years later, we've picked the spiritual successor to that car, one...

  • 2016 Chevrolet Volt, first drive in California, July 2015
    Chevrolet Volt: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2016

    Every year, Green Car Reports picks a new car or model line that we feel is the best green car for that new model year. This year, we picked a car that's the all-new version of one that was revolutionary when it was introduced several years ago. The latest version improves on it in pretty much...

  • 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI SE
    2015 Volkswagen Golf: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2015

    Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever...

  • 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid, Catskill Mountains, NY, Nov 2013
    Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid

    For 2014, our fourth annual Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy award goes to the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid. This new model of the redesigned Honda Accord sedan introduced last year is comfortable, quiet, stylish--and delivers real-world fuel economy from 40 mpg to as much as 52 mpg. And that's...

  • 2012 Tesla Model S
    2013 Tesla Model S: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2013

    Two years ago, our first-ever Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award went to the first modern battery-electric car sold in the U.S. How far we've come. This year, our third annual winner is the 2013 Tesla Model S, a car that takes the all-electric vehicle to a new and far more elevated level. But...

  • 2012 Toyota Prius V station wagon, Half Moon Bay, CA, May 2011

    The late-night arguments are over, the statistical comparisons and product specs are put away, and we've made our choice. The GreenCarReports Best Car To Buy Award for 2012 goes to a pair of cars: the 2012 Toyota Prius V wagon and the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. The two new 2012 entries together make up two-thirds of an expanded Prius hybrid range that we feel offers the best way for new-car buyers with a variety of different vehicle needs to drive green. 2012 Prius V wagon Judging from the regular stream of e-mails asking us when someone will make a hybrid minivan or wagon, Toyota...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    2011 Nissan Leaf: GreenCarReports Best Car To Buy 2011

    It’s been a long time coming. More than 80 years, in fact, since viable electric cars were offered to U.S. car buyers. Now, finally, at long last, it’s happened. The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the first practical, five-seat electric car—a full plug-in, running solely off grid...

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