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Karma Automotive plans to use both franchised dealerships and company-owned "brand experience centers."

We have stories on BMW, Nissan, and Volkswagen today.

What's an electric car? It's a car powered by a battery, like your cellphone. Doesn't use gasoline. What's a hybrid car? It's a car that runs on gasoline, but gets better fuel economy (whether or not you understand how). OK, so what's a plug-in hybrid? DON'T MISS: BMW 330e plug-in hybrid ads: no...

The Tesla Model 3 electric car, which its maker says will launch late next year with 200 miles of range and a $35,000 price, has caused a few shock waves across the car industry. All the German luxury makers now have plans for their own 200-mile battery-electric vehicles coming in 2018 or later, at...

Consumer Reports claims Volkswagen TDI may be entitled to greater buyback amounts.

Through May, the Fusion Hybrid and Energi models account for 42 percent of Los Angeles-area Fusion sales.

Nissan, alone among high-volume electric car makers, owns half of the company that makes the battery cells for its cars. Tesla Motors doesn't own any of Panasonic, which has supplied all cells to date for its three vehicles (though Panasonic owns a small part of Tesla). GM doesn't own any of LG...

Who said existing automakers really aren't trying to sell electric cars? And what news cheered owners of Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles affected by the VW emission scandal? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday...

Today's news includes the Tesla "gigafactory," China's Transit Elevated Bus, and rumors of a Corvette plug-in hybrid.

The second-generation Chevy Volt set a single-month Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales record in July with 385 sales, the equivalent of about 3500 sales in the American market. That's more than August 2013, the Volt's best-ever month in the United States, when dealerships moved 3,351 units...

You may have seen the renderings floating around the web, showing designs for a huge Chinese bus riding on rails over a multi-lane road. What a wild and wacky idea. Except that it's real, and it has already been built. And it just carried its first passengers this week on a shakedown run. DON'T...

Last month marked a major milestone for U.S. sales of plug-in electric cars: the 100,000th Chevrolet Volt was delivered. It's the first car with a plug in any segment to reach 100,000 units, and Chevy's justified in celebrating the occasion with a press release and a bit of fanfare. Both the Volt...

Kia has no plans to develop a "Tesla fighter" electric car at this time, the carmaker's engineering boss says.

The next-generation Corvette could get a plug-in hybrid powertrain, says Bob Lutz.

We have news from BMW, Smart, and Tesla today.

Charging cards offered by electric-car makers to potential buyers act as a combination of sales tool and spur to regional and national charging networks. They get new drivers over the hump of worrying about what happens if their car runs low on battery charge. And they make the process of charging...

Kuwait is cutting fuel subsidies to compensate for lost oil revenue.

Tesla's vice president of business development believes other carmakers aren't taking electric cars seriously.

The South Korean government suspended sales of Volkswagen, Audi, and Bentley models.

Following the launch of the latest Smart Fortwo hatchback, it was only a matter of time before the trendy German brand would introduce an evolution of its Fortwo Electric Drive version as well. While some electric vehicles remained desperately uncool or overpriced, the Fortwo "ED" (as Germans...