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Tesla settled a lawsuit brought by 126 Norwegian Model S owners out of court.
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California approves PG&E utility plan for 7,500 electric-car charging stationsPacific Gas & Electric is the latest California utility to undertake an electric-car charging project.
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Bolt EV sales start, Trump meets Musk, Prius Prime gas mileage: The Week in ReverseWhich long-anticipated and long-range electric car went on sale this week (on schedule)? How many climate-science deniers can president-elect Trump choose to run big federal agencies? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on...
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Musk & Trump, VW online sales, Bolt EV gets AeroVironment charging station: Today's Car NewsToday's news includes Elon Musk, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, and Volkswagen.
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2016 BYD e6 electric taxi gets range increase to 187 miles: Forbidden FruitHow would you like an all-electric wagon with five seats, a rear liftgate, and 187 miles of EPA-rated range? Sounds pretty good, right? You'd think such a vehicle might sell well, since it would have more rated range than any other electric cars on the market except the Chevy Bolt EV and anything...
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VW will now sell you a car online, but only in Denmark, not the U.S.Volkswagen is now selling its Up city car online, but only in Denmark.
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Elon Musk was named to an advisory group of business leaders.
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No, coal isn't coming back: the reasons in 5 chartsVarious market forces have contributed to the decline of coal.
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Chevy Bolt EV will offer AeroVironment charging stationAeroVironment charging stations will be sold through Chevrolet dealers for the Bolt EV.
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Reminder: buy that electric-car charging station (or electric motorcycle) this month!With any new presidential administration comes a certain degree of legislative uncertainty. Conflicting statements on many issues by president-elect Donald Trump have produced more questions than usual about what policies he and his administration may pursue. But for present and future electric-car...
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Lucid Air, Rick Perry at DOE, car-sharing future: Today's Car NewsToday, we have a first look at the design of Lucid Motors' luxury electric car, President-elect Donald Trump picks Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy, and Car2Go Europe CEO Thomas Beermann discusses the future of car sharing. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Lucid Motors reveals the...
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EVgo breaks ground on DC fast-charging station prepared for up to 350 kWLonger-range electric cars will add flexibility for drivers, but they will also require changes to charging infrastructure. More powerful DC fast-charging stations will be needed in order to charge cars with larger-capacity battery packs in a reasonable amount of time. The EVgo charging network is...
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Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Energy.
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For car-sharing to grow, 6 assumptions are key: DaimlerThe CEO of Daimler's Car2Go service discusses assumptions about the future of the business.
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Lucid reveals design for its luxury Air sedan, a Tesla competitorLucid Motors' electric luxury sedan is called the Air.
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Fisker EMotion, Renault-Nissan electric-car platform, Chevy Bolt EV compliance: Today's Car NewsToday's news includes Fisker, General Motors, and Nissan.
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This Boston dealer is excited about the electric-car futureA Boston-area dealer is optimistic about electric cars.
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Nissan and Renault to share common electric-car platform in futureThe Renault-Nissan Alliance's best-selling electric cars could share a common platform in the future.
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There's no single silver bullet that will reduce the energy consumption and emissions from the 80 million new road vehicles sold globally each year. Instead, thousands of individual efforts to improve the efficiency of powertrains, reduce vehicle weight, cut wind resistance, and all the rest come into play. But alternative powertrains will likely play the biggest role, with many varieties of electrification—hybrids, plug-in electric cars, and hydrogen fuel cells—vying in different applications. DON'T MISS: Which electric car will history view as most important? Poll results We...
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Fisker EMotion 400-mile luxury electric car: new teaser photo releasedWe've seen it teased a couple of times in shadowy photos, and now we have the first renderings of the whole car. In this case, "it" is the Fisker EMotion, the latest striking, low-slung sedan drawn by car designer Henrik Fisker. This is to be the second car to bear his name, following the 2012...
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Methane from livestock nearing worst-case scenario for climate change: scientistMethane emissions may rival carbon dioxide as a climate-change instigator, new research suggests.
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Far more Chevy Bolt EVs likely to be sold than compliance requiresGeneral Motors only needs to sell a relatively small number of Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars to satisfy California's zero-emission vehicle mandate.
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Tesla profits, first Chevy Bolt EV sales, carbon emissions plateau, California resists: Today's Car NewsWe have lots of electric-car news today.
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First 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric cars sold today, in CaliforniaAnd now it's real. Just 23 months after GM CEO Mary Barra unveiled the Chevrolet Bolt concept at the Detroit Auto Show, the very first production versions of Chevy's 238-mile electric car to be sold were delivered this morning to eager San Francisco Bay Area buyers. The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will...
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