Green Life

A report suggests that it makes no financial sense to continue to support coal as it's not more expensive than wind and solar. That's good news for electric cars.

An Active Sound Control system from Milltek Sport creates engine sounds for the electric car of your choice—like a Tesla Model 3.

California's Lucid finds inspiration from places in its home state for aesthetics, but its strategy might look like Tesla in the early stages.

Fully solar chargers will offer a streamlined installation and allow California travelers to charge even at times of blackouts.

Zity sweeps in to potentially meet pent-up demand left by former effort Autolib; but will it find better success than other automaker-run programs?

Microsoft co-founder gives props to Tesla for its progress, but chose the Porsche Taycan as his first electric car.

Tesla has run into some slowdowns in clearing land for its European Gigafactory, due to environmentalist objections.

As tallied by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the well-to-wheels impact of EVs is considerably less than just a few years ago.

LA will be the home of the first range-extended electric fire truck, made by Austria's Rosenbauer.

A solar program for the Audi E-Tron sends more energy generated from sunlight to owners' houses—as well as a little money back.

And despite sophisticated algorithms, Uber and Lyft have too many "deadhead miles"—meaning miles with the driver and no passenger.

In much of Europe, Lexus is pitching hybrids as "self-charging"—and many consumers and electric vehicle fans think it's misleading.

The U.S. state of New Jersey has one of the most ambitious programs yet, on the state level, for encouraging electric cars.

At CES, Tropos Motors showed how it can make a mini electric fire truck at half the cost of the full-size one.

Michigan and Virginia are among the states using VW diesel settlement money to go electric with their school buses.

Electric vehicles and towing are a good short-distance combination, and the Polestar 2 will allow that flexibility.

Last week Valvoline released a motor oil for hybrids, which typically have special engines already designed for frequent starts and stops.

A conversion between Volkswagen and EV West borrows the heart of a 2017 VW e-Golf and fits it to a classic Type 2 Bus.

The Sierra Club and the European Group Transport & Environment have presented an analysis suggesting ride-hailing is adding to pollution.

The CO2 emissions associated with making tires could be cut with the reuse of carbon black.