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Nissan will offer owners of older Leaf electric cars an upgrade to preserve telematics system functionality.

If there were any doubt that president-elect Donald Trump supports fossil fuels and does not believe in the scientific consensus of climate change, his pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should put it to rest. Yesterday, he named Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, a...

U.K. researchers believe the polymer used in soft contact lenses could boost supercapacitor energy density.

Last week, we wrote about the results of a Twitter poll we put up to get a feel for what our readers like best about the site. The flipside of "most valuable" is "least valuable," so we put up the same list of choices again, this time asking survey respondents to rank their least favorite types of...

A new report claims reuse of electric-car batteries for energy storage is inefficient.

Sometimes interesting predictions come buried inside a completely different topic. Take, for example, an investment note on the auto-parts supplier Continental contained in a roundup of industry research, market analysis, and news items issued yesterday by investment bank UBS. It contains the...

BMW aims to sell 100,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids next year.

Tesla will recall three types of accessory adapter because of the risk of overheating.

General Motors issued the owner's manual for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car.

A week ago, the EPA recommended that U.S. vehicle emission standards stay put for the years 2022 through 2025. According to the Technical Assessment Report the agency issued in July, automakers have so far quite successfully met standards in place since 2012 to cut emissions of the climate-change...

Today, General Motors has a new 9-speed automatic transmission that may boost fuel efficiency, Chinese startup NextEV will offer an electric SUV under its Nio brand, and a city in Finland is making a bid for the next Tesla "gigafactory." All this and more on Green Car Reports. Find out why one...

Canada's first three Chevrolet Bolt EVs were registered in October, no doubt for media test-drives and dealership training ahead of the 238-mile electric car's Canadian launch. That event is expected to take place early next year, but with photos of truckloads of Bolt EVs headed for U.S. dealers...

The German government believes its car industry may fall behind in the race to build more electric cars.

NextEV's Nio brand will offer an electric SUV aimed at the Tesla Model X.

General Motors will debut a new 9-speed automatic transmission in Chevrolet models.

Today's news includes stories on electric cars and fuel-economy rules.

Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. Since then, plug-in electric vehicles have seen more than their share of ups and downs. That first EV1 was a high-tech two-seater created specifically to meet California's...

General Motors will lose up to $9,000 on each Chevrolet Bolt EV it sells, reports say.

Ford will ask President-elect Donald Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, CEO Mark Fields said in a recent interview.

The EPA expects demand for ethanol-free gasoline to gradually dissipate.