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  • XL Hybrids Ford F-250 plug-in

    As both established and startup automakers rush to build electric pickups, many seem to have forgotten a fundamental principle of pickup design: Trucks were meant to work. Ford has announced it is developing a plug-in hybrid F150, and Ford, GMC, Tesla, and startup automaker Rivian are all working on electric light--duty pickups. What none of them are talking about is heavy duty pickups that spend a lot of time on the road and can help contractors and companies save thousands of dollars in fuel costs in their businesses. For those customers, XL, a Boston-based conversion company, released a...

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    EPA proposes more smog-contributing ethanol in summer gasoline

    Ethanol is known as an alternative fuel, and is even renewable. But that doesn't always make it clean. The Environmental Protection Agency, after proposing watered down emissions and fuel economy standards for cars, has now released a proposal to increase the amount of ethanol blended into pump gas...

  • Teaser for Karma Pininfarina concept debuting at 2019 Shanghai auto show
    VW widens electric net, Karma Vision, FCA emissions recall: Today's Car News

    Volkswagen dramatically expanded its already big plans for electric cars. Karma released its vision for the next 10 years with three new or updated models. FCA will recall more than 860,000 gas-powered cars for failing on-road emissions tests. And our latest Twitter poll shows which versions of the...

  • 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance
    Which Tesla Model 3 would you buy? Twitter poll results

    Now that Tesla has finally released the $35,000 Model 3 that got hundreds of thousands of buyers interested in the brand, we wondered how many people might follow through and buy it. Along with the new base Short Range Model 3, the company recently filled out the rest of the Model 3 lineup with the...

  • Redesigned Karma Revero teaser
    Karma plans to relaunch with three new models at Shanghai auto show

    Karma, the company that started as the new maker of the Fisker plug-in hybrid (and once Tesla-fighter) of the same name—now called Revero—plans a new birth, four years after buying the company out of bankruptcy. At next month's Shanghai auto show, the company plans a product revival led...

  • Left to right: Volkswagen ID, ID Buzz and ID Crozz concepts
    VW boosts electric car plans with more models, 22 million EVs in 10 years

    VW has been busy putting logistics in place to build as many as 15 million examples of 50 new electric models (across its portfolio of brands) by 2028. At its annual conference at its headquarters in Wolfsburg Tuesday, the company upped that commitment to 22 million cars among 70 new electric...

  • Mother-daughter team installs battery packs in Chevrolet Volt electric cars

    In his budget aimed at cutting $126 billion or 5 percent from non-defense federal spending, President Trump proposes to eliminate the plug-in vehicle tax credit that gives electric-car buyers up to $7,500 back on their federal taxes. Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow says he expects ending the tax credit to save the government $2.5 billion over a decade. “As a matter of our policy, we want to end all of those subsidies,” Kudlow had said to reporters in December, as quoted by Reuters. MUST READ: Senate tax plan leaves electric-car purchase credit in place Kudlow also said then...

  • Image from 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric-car ad by Ourisman Chevrolet, Rockville, Maryland
    Future Fiat 500e, Sono Sion solar, Twitter poll: Today's Car News

    Tesla opened its reservation bank for the quick and giant Semi. Sono revealed the production version of its Sion solar-assisted electric cars. A Fiat Chrysler executive confirmed that the company will offer a longer-range replacement for the Fiat 500e electric car next year. And our latest Twitter...

  • 2017 Tesla Model X
    Do Tesla stores still matter? Take our Twitter poll

    Last week, Tesla announced it would close all its stores. This week, it said it would keep most of them open. Lots of people have speculated about the causes and effects of both moves, from rent owed, to state statutes, to the logistics of test drives. Our question is, what do potential...

  • Sono Sion solar assisted electric car
    Production Sono Sion solar-assisted car makes appearance

    Concept cars are relatively easy to build—particularly concepts of cars that may exist only on paper or as clay and foil design studies. That has given rise to a host of new concepts launched as online crowd-funded endeavors of various levels of seriousness and potential. One is Sono Motors...

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    Tesla stores, plug-in Jeeps, EPA fuel-economy, Colorado charging: Today's Car News

    Tesla reversed its decision to go online only, and is keeping many stores open. Fiat Chrysler announced two new plug-in Jeeps for Europe. An annual EPA report shows rising fuel-economy standards are working—just as the EPA plans to gut them. And a new program aims to get Colorado ready for...

  • 2018 Tesla Model S and 2018 Tesla Model X
    Tesla will raise prices on all but $35k Model 3, keep more stores open

    Tesla's announcement late February that it will close stores and move entirely to online sales has already been cause for a minor uproar, as news emerged about mammoth lease obligations it may need to keep. Those lease obligations potentially add up to $1.6 billion currently and $1.1 billion until...

  • 2019 Jeep Renegade

    Last week, Fiat Chrysler announced plans, along with a $4.5 billion investment, to expand its lineup of plug-in hybrids, including plans to build two new plug-in hybrid Jeeps in the U.S., including the Grand Cherokee and new versions of the Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer planned to roll out in 2020. Last June, at an investors' meeting, late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne announced that the company is working on a plug in version of the Italian-made Jeep Renegade. Now the company has revealed plans to build another Jeep heading up the plug-in mountain, the Compass. READ THIS: Fiat...

  • eMotorWerks JuiceBox wall mount charging Tesla Model X
    Colorado to launch smart-charging pilot program as it prepares for EVs

    As it prepares to launch an electric-car mandate in coming years, Colorado is working to learn how electric cars can help it move to a more renewable energy grid. The non-profit Platte River Power Authority announced last month that it is teaming up with eMotorWerks, which sells home smart...

  • 2019 Honda Insight
    EPA says fuel economy rose in 2017, but it may be falling again

    An EPA report released Wednesday shows that cars are getting better gas mileage in response to rising fuel economy standards. Yet a roaring economy and low gas prices have put Americans on a truck-buying spree, and the EPA is working to undermine those standards. According to its annual automotive...

  • Imagine by Kia concept
    Plug-in cars and concepts at Geneva, Tesla Model Y and Superchargers: The Week in Reverse

    Which new electric car may be able to recharge 240 miles in less than five minutes? What is the bestselling electric car in the world, and what milestone did it pass this week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 8...

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    BMW X3 plug-in, 400,000 Leafs, Audi e-tron Sportback, Fiat EV: Today's Car News

    BMW and Audi are rounding out their lineups with new plug-in and electric SUVs. Customizable Fiat Centoventi concept could show a replacement for the 500e. And the Nissan Leaf retains its global EV sales lead with 400,000 cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. BMW announced that it will sell...

  • 2020 Audi E-tron Sportback prototype
    Audi e-tron Sportback electric SUV edges closer to production form

    We've seen and driven the upcoming Audi e-tron quattro electric SUV, and this week got a look at the more affordable Q4 e-tron as well as four new plug-in hybrids coming from Audi. In between, the brand is also scheduled to release a fastback version of the e-tron Quattro SUV, called the e-tron...

  • 2019 Nissan Leaf

    With Tesla looming in its rearview mirrors, the little Nissan Leaf is chuffing ahead in the global electric-car sales race. The company that built the original modern electric car announced on Tuesday that it sold its 400,000th copy of the Leaf worldwide, just as the longer-range Leaf Plus version goes on sale to spar with Tesla's new Short Range Model 3. (The Leaf Plus is rated at 226 miles of range from its 62-kwh battery.) MUST READ: Tesla Model 3 owns the EV market, outsells all other plug-ins combined in the fourth quarter race Over its now seven-year lifespan, the Model S has sold more...

  • Fiat Concept Centoventi concept
    Fiat Concept Centoventi electric car opens Mopar toolbox, looks beyond 500e

    Fiat is 120 years old, and for the Geneva Motor Show the Italian automaker is presenting an electric concept car that celebrates the brand’s “democratic mobility” charge while providing a glimpse of what that idea could mean in the future. The carmaker started with a...

  • BMW X3 xDrive30e
    BMW X3 xDrive 30e builds out plug-in hybrid lineup

    BMW has recently announced that it will upgrade two mainstays of its plug-in hybrid lineup in the U.S. with the new 2020 X5 xDrive 45e and an updated 530e for 2019. In between, BMW now says it will launch a new plug-in hybrid version of its bestselling model, the X3 for the 2020 model year. The...

  • Prototype for BMW iNext electric SUV due in 2021
    Tesla Superchargers, Nissan IMQ SUV concept, Mitsubishi Engelberg: Today's Car News

    Nissan gave a peek at a future SUV—only with gas-hybrid power, this time. Tesla turned on its first 1,000-mph version 3 Supercharger on Wednesday. The Mitsubishi Engelberg plug-in hybrid concept may preview a replacement for the Outlander plug-in hybrid. And a Japanese judge released former...

  • Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle
    No more rumble: Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle arrives in August, costs more than $30,000

    Update, 3/7/19: Harley-Davidson announced a longer range estimate for the LiveWire at the Geneva auto show in March, which this story has been updated to reflect. A chief electric motorcycle competitor, Zero, had just released the SR/F, with 160 miles of range and fast onboard charging. Forget loud...

  • Teaser for Honda Tomo concept debuting at 2019 Geneva auto show
    Honda Tomo updates Urban EV concept for active lifestyles, and the Geneva show

    The Tomo, a design-school update on the Honda Urban EV concept, with more rounded curves, is being displayed at the 2019 Geneva auto show. The new concept embraces time away from the big city a little more. It took form via a partnership with design students at the school of fashion and design in...

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