Green Car News

Each year, Green Car Reports chooses a new car, or a family of cars, as the best green car introduced in that model year. In 2011, our very first award, we picked the first-ever modern electric car to be sold in high volumes. Six years later, we've picked the spiritual successor to that car, one...

Researchers at Vanderbilt University say they've made a battery using scrap steel and brass.

Today, a proud climate-science denier will head President-elect Donald Trump's EPA transition team, we recap past winners of our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, and Workhorse announces an extended-range electric pickup truck. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Commercial-truck...

Donald Trump named a proud climate-science denier to head his EPA transition team.

Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray called Tesla a "fraud" for taking government subsidies while failing to turn a profit.

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years; the Chevy Volt won the Canadian electric-car sales trophy for the seventh time in seven months. Though Chevy Volt sales in Canada fell from stratospheric to mere tropospheric levels in October, the vehicle remains Canada's...

On Monday, Green Car Reports will name its 2017 Best Car To Buy. It will be the seventh time we've given the award, and it's worth looking back to see how far green cars have progressed in those seven years. We were lucky to start the award in 2011, the year two remarkable cars arrived on global...

Workhorse plans to launch an extended-range electric pickup truck in 2018.

We have stories on Nissan and Tesla today.

The 2017 Nissan Versa Note gets styling updates, but no mechanical changes.

Renewable energy will hit 9 percent of the total U.S. generating mix in 2017, according to the Department of Energy.

Audi will stop racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and focus on Formula E instead.

ExxonMobil may have to lower the value of some of its oil reserves.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tesla’s claim that its Autopilot driver-assistance software is safer than a human driver. After a fatal Autopilot crash last May, the company said the death was the first in 130 million miles of Autopilot driving—and noted that, “among all...

Today, Shell predicts oil demand could peak by 2020, automakers use the loose definitions of different SUV categories to make meeting fuel-economy standards easier, and Faraday Future backer LeEco runs out of cash. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Faraday Future backer LeEco is running out...

Automakers are taking advantage of the fact that the EPA has no clear definition for crossover utility vehicles.

Shell predicts global oil demand could be close to peaking.

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting says his LeEco tech company has overextended itself.

Today's news includes Tesla and Toyota.

Chinese coal demand will continue to rise despite efforts to promote renewable energy, a new report says.