Green Car News

A New Jersey town will subsidize Uber rides to free up parking spaces.

Evatran claims its second-generation wireless-charging system will be compatible with 80 percent of electric cars in North America.

Infiniti's VC-T is the first variable compression-ratio engine to enter production.

A recent news item from California aimed directly at Tesla's Autopilot system has me musing on words, meanings, and life and death. Last week, that state's Department of Motor Vehicles published the draft of a proposed new regulation that “…prohibits the advertisement of lower levels...

Today, most affected owners say they will take the Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI diesel settlement, Henrik Fisker discusses a new company that will build electric cars, and LG Chem will supply battery cells to Faraday Future. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Faraday Future will get lithium-ion...

Next year should be an interesting one for sales of plug-in electric cars, with the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV rolling out to selected dealers in all 50 states, Chevy says. The 2017 BMW i3 gets 50 percent more range, and the Ford Focus Electric and Volkswagen e-Golf are expected to get range upgrades...

The Citroën e-Mehari is an electric car that references the company's classic Mehari utility vehicle.

The vast majority of Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI owners are expected to take the settlement terms.

Chris Grundler heads the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality.

Faraday Future will get lithium-ion battery cells from LG Chem.

A lawsuit related to the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid won't go to arbitration.

The past year has been one of anticipation among green-car advocates, who've spent many months waiting for certain vehicles to emerge into production. At the start of the year, it was the Tesla Model X luxury electric utility vehicle, built in very low numbers for several months at the end of 2015...

Auto shows are sometimes hot, sometimes not. A lot of it has to do with what cars are shown, whether they're pure design studies, concepts pointing toward future vehicles, or actual production cars. And whether a show has "buzz" largely depends on the cadence of when automakers choose to release...

The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 will begin testing with the U.S. Army next year.

The questions of whether and when sales of plug-in electric cars will resume their climb after a static 2015 are much on the minds of green-car advocates these days. It's taken as an article of faith that cars with plugs will grow as a proportion of the global market, ultimately supplanting large...

Early reviews of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV are encouraging.

We have lots of plug-in hybrid news today.

Tesla faces many obstacles in China.

One of several new electric cars and concepts at last week's Paris Motor Show was the electric version of the second-generation Smart minicar. As Smart pointed out, it's the only maker that offers the option of gasoline or electric powertrains in every model it makes. Those are the ForTwo two-seat...

Sales of plug-in electric cars in September chugged along steadily, with consistent sales from the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid and a stronger number for the Nissan Leaf battery-electric car. Chevrolet logged 2,031 deliveries of its Volt hatchback, likely now almost all the new second-generation...