Green Car News

Volkswagen diesel owners are still waiting for final approval of the proposed settlement that will allow VW to buy back their cars. But on Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission took the unusual step of warning VW dealers not to mislead owners about the buyback terms. It also issued an informational...

Regarding the prospects for electric cars in future years, our readers are nothing if not an optimistic bunch. We recently polled our Twitter followers on their views of how much and how fast cars with plugs would move into the sales mainstream. Last year, plug-in cars represented slightly less...

The 2017 BMW 740e xDrive i Performance goes on sale this month.

H2 Logic claims its new dispenser can increase the throughput of hydrogen fueling stations.

A new book explains how humans often obstruct their own progress.

Almost no U.S. car buyers sit down at their kitchen table and kick off a chat by saying, "Honey, we need to buy a city car." The only exceptions are those in a handful of crowded cities like New York and San Francisco, for whom a very short car that is easy to park may take priority. But as sales...

The Michigan Treasury Department increased its stake in Tesla in the second quarter.

The EPA doesn't require carmakers to report fuel economy for heavy-duty trucks.

As the 2017 Karma Revero gets closer to its official launch later this year, its maker has released the first official photo of the luxury plug-in hybrid sedan. The rebooted Karma is a modified and updated version of the car previously sold in 2012 as the Fisker Karma, before its maker shut down...

The 2017 Audi A3 Sportback e-tron will get the same updates as the rest of the 2017 A3 lineup.

Today's news includes a group buy, oil subsidies, and a Twitter poll.

Three months later, the May 7 death of a Model S driver in Florida continues to generate headlines and spark debate on the merits of electronic driver-assistance technologies. But a recent story points out at least one of the potential future advantages to self-driving cars: their ability to...

U.S. subsidies to the oil and gas industries are often a flashpoint among electric-car advocates and environmentalists. They see a conflict in the government providing billions of dollars in incentives for drilling while simultaneously attempting to lower consumption of carbon-emitting energy...

Group purchases of cars and other goods, as a way of driving down the price, are common in other countries—think China—but rare in North America. But over the last two years, they've emerged as a way for electric-car advocates to accomplish several goals at once. Buyers both get better...

These are the best deals on green cars for August 2016.

Volkswagen will add particulate filters to certain gasoline powertrains beginning in June 2017.

National Drive Electric Week takes place September 10-18.

A detailed study of 1,900 new-car buyers has let Canadian researchers contrast the early adopters of electric cars with the more mainstream market in fine detail. More than 150 of the respondents surveyed bought a plug-in electric vehicle, offering a sharp contrast in attitudes and adoption...

Today's news includes Karma, Porsche, and Tesla.

The 2017 Porsche Panamera adopts many fuel-saving measures, but what are the results?