Green Car News

Today's news includes Jeep and Mercedes-Benz.

Mercedes-Benz will unveil an all-electric SUV concept in Paris.

The 2018 Jeep Compass was unveiled at the Brazilian factory where it will be built.

It's one of the questions for future electric-car charging infrastructure: what about putting them at gas stations? On the one hand, drivers are used to going to gas stations, which are often conveniently located on both local and long-distance routes. On the other hand, gas-station stops generally...

China is expected to slow renewable-energy growth for the first time ever.

Michigan Congressman Fred Upton believes CAFE standards should be lowered.

DragTimes confirms Tesla's claim of 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds for the Model S P100D with Ludicrous Mode.

Today's news includes Smart, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

ChargePoint is rolling out a wait-list feature on all of its public charging stations.

The 2011 Nissan Leaf was the first mass-priced modern electric car when it launched in December 2010. Nissan has since sold close to a quarter of a million Leafs, and together with its alliance partner Renault it has now sold more than 350,000 all-electric vehicles. But the Leaf is still with us...

The 2018 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive debuts at the 2016 Paris Motor Show.

Sometimes journalists miss the forest for the trees, and we'll plead guilty on this one. When we wrote last week that the Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan was little-changed for the 2017 model year, with only one new color added, we missed one important element. That was, as several readers...

The Tesla version 8.0 software update is headlined by changes to the Autopilot driver-assist system.

Formula E will hold two races in New York City next July.

Which additional language now proves to cause confusion between the Chevy Volt and the Chevy Bolt EV? And why does VW come out looking like a (relative) hero on diesel engines in Europe? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on...

Earlier this month, an application for a dealer license submitted by Tesla Motors was denied by the state of Michigan. It was the final decision in a process that kicked off in October 2014. That was when a last-minute wording change in state franchise law foreclosed the electric-car maker's...

The 2018 Chevrolet Equinox crossover utility vehicle, unveiled last night in Chicago, will have three engine options, all turbocharged. And bucking recent "death of diesel" predictions, one of those three will be a 1.6-liter diesel that gets a 40-mpg highway rating. The 2018 Equinox will be the...

French automaker Venturi used to be known for its distinctive supercars, often turbocharged to give their humble mechanicals a lot more potency. After limited success, the company was rebooted around the turn of the century to focus on electric car technology. The company has since come out with a...

AM General, the firm best known for building Hummer H1s in both civilian and military versions, has been selected by a rather different governmental agency to help create a prototype with a different kind of civic duty in mind. Postal trucks, those white boxes that deliver your mail, haven't...

Cars that plug in to recharge, whether all-electric or plug-in hybrid, are a very small proportion of total U.S. vehicle sales today. And the same applies to their global sales, which are less than 1 percent of a total worldwide volume now headed toward 90 million vehicles a year. So today, the...