Green Car News
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Ahead of the production start of its heavy-duty electric trucks next year, Bollinger has filed a set of patents covering some basic aspects of their design and engineering.
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Sony Vision-S concept electric car unveiled at CES looks at a connected near-futureThe technologies rounded up in a concept car displayed by Sony at CES aren't all that unexpected; it's that Sony designed its own electric car for them.
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Fisker Ocean, Lincoln Corsair plug-in hybrid, charging drama: Today’s Car NewsFisker released a price and more information on its upcoming Ocean electric SUV, though it’s still lacking some key information. We tell a tale of charging misadventures (and some lessons). And the Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring is a plug-in hybrid, but a luxury vehicle first and foremost...
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Charging the Best Car To Buy nominees: A drama in three actsKeeping our long-range electric cars fast-charged in a semi-rural test environment proved very challenging.
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2021 Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring preview: All-wheel-drive plug-in hybrid puts luxury firstThe Corsair Grand Touring compact crossover will have Lincoln's first application of e-axle all-wheel drive and its longest electric-only plug-in range.
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CES: Fisker Ocean gets a $37,499 price tag, but still no word on batteries or build siteHenrik Fisker wants to deliver a $30,000, 300-mile electric crossover (after tax credits), but hasn't said where the Ocean will be built or whose batteries will power it.
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Toyota is doing good with its Corolla and RAV4 hybrids—and in the case of the RAV4, selling a lot of them. Byton says more about who’s providing content for its very large screen. BMW reworked some i3’s for limo duty. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The startup automaker Byton has revealed more about what kind of content will show up on its huge, trend-setting 48-inch full-width dash display. BMW is aiming to push past some preconceptions about how bigger is better—especially on the ride-hailing or limo front—with its i3 Urban Suite concept for CES...
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Audi E-Tron: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020We 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.
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Toyota’s top-selling US hybrid isn’t the PriusThe Toyota RAV4 Hybrid passed the Toyota Prius family by a long shot in 2019—and that's before the introduction of the RAV4 Prime.
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BMW cranks up the swank for CES riders with i3 Urban Suite conceptA concept version of the BMW i3 urban electric car rehabs the interior into something that a chauffeur might approve of.
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Byton announces content partners for its very connected electric carsThe Byton M-Byte electric SUV will offer natural-language voice commands across apps, audio and video streaming, and a host of travel-related services.
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Why the Toyota RAV4 is the best hybrid for the US marketOur Best Car To Buy honorary mention goes to the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, which is a poster car for clean-vehicle choices and how great hybrids can be.
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Which plug-in hybrid offers the longest electric-only range? What’s our pick for the most influential new passenger vehicle of the past decade? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 3, 2020. Read up on our Best Car To Buy finalists, the Audi E-Tron, Kia Niro EV, and Porsche Taycan. And then see which one is Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2020. Instead of merely recalling our past Best Car To Buy winners, as we normally do around this time of the year, we looked back at the list and picked one as our Car...
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Tesla’s global gains, Honda’s hybrid push, BMW’s Model S: Today’s Car NewsHonda isn’t sounding as bullish about electric cars as it did a couple of years ago; think hybrids instead. Tesla finishes the decade on a strong note and aims globally in 2020. And BMW could be working on an electric flagship sedan to rival the Model S and Audi E-Tron GT. This and more...
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For the 2020s, Honda aims to favor hybrids over EVsHonda's global CEO sounds pessimistic about electric cars catching on in the mainstream auto market in the next decade.
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Tesla rings in 2020 with a global manufacturing presence, strong 2019 growthWith first deliveries made in China on a larger scale this next week, Tesla has leveled-up its manufacturing for global customers.
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Best Car To Buy winners, Car of the Decade, plug-in Jeeps: Today’s Car NewsCue that extra New Year’s confetti: We name our annual Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020. This and more, today at GCR. The Audi E-Tron is our Best Car To Buy 2020. Read why the E-Tron won, and read more about the other two finalists, the Porsche Taycan and Kia Niro EV. Rather than...
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Jeep to present plug-in hybrid Wrangler, Compass and Renegade at 2020 CESIt's been a long time coming but Jeep is finally ready to unveil its first production plug-in hybrids. Some readers may recall Jeep rolled out a plug-in hybrid Wrangler prototype as far back as 2008, though the global financial crisis put that particular project on ice. Fast forward today and Jeep...
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Plug-in hybrids can be difficult to understand in many respects. Here are five that simply don't deliver on the all-electric driving.
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Second-best: Chevy Volt is gone, so here are the plug-in hybrids with the longest rangeAs we head into 2020, here are the plug-in hybrids that go the longest on a charge without tailpipe emissions.
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Green Car Reports’ Car of the Decade: Tesla Model SThe Tesla Model S forever changed the automotive market, the industry, and the electric car. Nothing else comes close.
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First drive review: The 2020 Vanderhall Edison three-wheeler is a fun way to go greenThe Vanderhall Edison provides an all-electric powertrain a classic roadster look—on three wheels.
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Porsche Taycan: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeAll of the Porsche Taycan models offer all-wheel drive, and all of them get close to the original concept’s 600-hp target and super-fast charging.
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Kia Niro EV: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeThe Kia Niro EV is a strong electric-car value—especially if dependable miles of range for the dollar are important.
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