Electric Cars

It wasn't even close. When we asked our Twitter followers which electric car they thought would be judged by history as most important thus far, it was a slam-dunk. Fully four out of five survey participants voted for the same vehicle out of the four choices we offered. DON'T MISS: Tesla Model S...

Startup nuTonomy will test an autonomous Renault Zoe prototype in Boston.

They're two high-volume plug-in hybrids, but they take different approaches to energy efficiency. The Toyota Prius Prime, new for 2017, is the plug-in version of the world's best-known, and best-selling, hybrid car. The 2017 Chevy Volt was new last year, a greatly improved version of the pioneering...

The "Transparent Factory" that previously built the Volkswagen Phaeton luxury sedan will now build the e-Golf electric car.

BYD and Wayne Engineering will sell an all-electric garbage truck.

Tesla may have taken capabilities out of the Model S and Model X because of a supplier switch.

A Tesla video shows what self-driving cars "see."

The Hyundai Ioniq Electric is now the most energy-efficient car available in the U.S.

Tesla's new manufacturing boss will seek to reach annual production of 500,000 electric cars by 2018.

Hyundai will offer a subscription-based service for its Ioniq Electric as an alternative to traditional leasing.

It's long been obvious that California is the epicenter of emission reduction and electric-car adoption in the United States. And its outsize influence on U.S. environmental policy has global ramifications as well. Of the 1.25 million plug-in vehicles estimated to be on global roads by the end of...

The Renault Zoe remained the best-selling electric car in Europe through September 2016, while the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid maintained its status as the best-selling plug-in hybrid.

The Tesla Model S topped Strategic Vision's annual Customer Love Index.

BMW has delivered 100,000 plug-in electric cars since November 2013, and has plans for many new models.

Tesla will launch a software update to improve Model S P100D acceleration next month, Elon Musk says.

One week ago this morning, the U.S. and the world woke up to learn that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. The shockwaves of that election are still reverberating, and will do so for quite some time to come. Among the groups concerned are environmentalists, clean-energy...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally issued mandatory-noise rules for so-called "quiet cars."

Stanford researchers found that battery-electric cars are a better option than fuel cells.

The Hyundai Ioniq Electric will get a range increase to keep pace with competition.

The 2017 Nissan Leaf enters the new model year largely unchanged.