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Why did some analysts and commentators grumble about Tesla's new, even-faster, even-longer-range 100D models? And what horrible, awful, dreadful things do carmaker lobbyists say will happen if regulators dare to keep current fuel-economy standards in place? This is our look back at the Week In...

We have stories on the BMW i3 REx, Volkswagen diesel scandal, and Tesla Autopilot today.

A Volkswagen TDI owner in Portland, Oregon, who's a good friend of this site is taking us along for the ride as he prepares to sell back his 2010 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen TDI. The car, which only has 43,000 miles on it, was purchased new from a Portland-area dealer and maintained very well. Our...

The 2017 Chevrolet Spark is both the smallest and the least expensive car sold by Chevy in North America. The Korean-made hatchback minicar isn't among the brand's top sellers—those would be its full-size pickup trucks and the Equinox compact crossover—but the previous generation found...

NASA research may be relevant to the Tesla Autopilot debate.

Electric buses are on the rise.

The next milestone in Volkswagen 3.0-liter TDI negotiations is a November 3 hearing.

A BMW i3 REx owner recounts 27 months with the range-extended electric car.

Today's news includes Kia and Opel.

So-called self-driving or autonomous cars still aren't on the market as of today, but you might not know that from a lot of the press coverage. One of the most prominent systems is what electric-car maker Tesla Motors calls Autopilot. In reality, it's a collection of electronic active-safety...

U.S. drivers logged a record number of miles in the first half of this year.

Several months ago, the allocated supply of "green stickers" that give buyers of new plug-in hybrid cars access to California carpool lanes expired. So you think that a pending bill in the California state legislature to expand that supply would get the support of plug-in electric car advocates...

Volkswagen's scored in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Automobile Report slipped by about 3 percent.

The 2017 Opel Ampera-e debuts at the 2016 Paris Motor Show this fall.

Today's news includes Faraday Future and Tesla.

A mysterious camouflaged vehicle spotted in Los Angeles could be Faraday Future's first electric car.

It's probably the battle that will do most to determine the carbon emission from new U.S. vehicles over the next decade. Automakers want to modify, delay, or extend the current corporate average fuel economy standards for 2022 through 2025 vehicles; regulators don't. The mid-July release of the...

EVEN Electric plans to sell electric cars through multi-brand dealerships.

The battle over CAFE standards continues.

In broad plan, Tesla Motors has stuck by the "secret master plan" it published 10 years ago. It launched the low-volume all-electric Roadster, then the higher-volume Model S sedan and its Model X crossover utility vehicle offshoots, all at luxury price levels. Now it says it will put its Model 3...