fuel cells
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Toyota announces it will build a hybrid version of the Corolla. Rivian teases images of its upcoming electric pickup. Mercedes-Benz launches a consumer fuel-cell test fleet. And we crunch the accident-rate numbers on Tesla's Autopilot. All this and more on Green Car Reports. At a California event this week, Toyota announced it will build a hybrid version of its most venerable economy car, the Corolla in 2020. It's not clear what that means for the Prius. Rivian plans to introduce a new electric pickup and SUV pair at the LA auto show later this month and gave a glimpse of the truck in a few...
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Mercedes-Benz delivers first F-Cell plug-in hybrid fuel-cell SUV in Germany
Mercedes delivered its first plug-in hybrid F-Cell fuel cell SUV in Berlin earlier this week. Like earlier projects from Toyota, Honda, and GM in the U.S., Mercedes is only leasing or renting the vehicles (it says "renting short-term or long-term") to select customers in German cities where...
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Commentary: Electric-car and fuel-cell advocates should agree...to agree
Here at Green Car Reports we hear—even attract—a lot of controversy when we report on fuel-cell vehicles. Many our readers argue vociferously that the only green cars run on batteries alone—no, thank you, to range-extending gas engines, either. Others seem to hold out for the...
Eric C. Evarts -
British Columbia opens first hydrogen filling station in Canada
Canada’s first retail hydrogen fueling station opened on Friday June 15 in Vancouver, part of a network of eight hydrogen stations expected in British Columbia in the next two years. By 2020, the program will add hydrogen dispensers at five retail stations in Metro Vancouver and one station...
Matthew Klippenstein -
Electric-car buyers want same things as all car buyers, research shows
Cheaper batteries alone won't get consumers to abandon their internal combustion cars for any type of electric car. Purchase incentives and charging boost plug-in hybrids. But what buyers really seem to want is fuel cells.
Matthew Klippenstein -
Connecticut Electric-Car Incentives Unveiled, Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Included
Connecticut will offer rebates of up to $3,000 for the purchase of new electric cars.
Stephen Edelstein -
Honda hopes its new hydrogen-fueling protocol will become the industry standard.
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Which Carmakers Are Still Serious About Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles?
Hydrogen fuel-cell cars have not progressed as fast as some companies had predicted 10 or 15 years ago. No carmaker sells a fuel-cell vehicle in any kind of volume, but plug-in electric cars are on sale in North America, Europe, and Asia, with tens of thousands sold (and likely more than 100,000...
John Voelcker