Green Car News

BMW will not offer a diesel version of the recently-redesigned 7-Series in the U.S.

To market its three-wheeled car, Elio Motors is getting political.

Volvo electric buses are serving as mobile concert halls in Gothenburg, Sweden.

We have lots of electric car news today.

Tesla will open a pilot "gallery" in a Nordstrom store in Los Angeles.

U.S. sales of cars with plugs were essentially flat last month, as low gas prices and perhaps anticipation of longer-range entries within months kept a lid on buyer interest. The second-generation Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, now available throughout the country as a 2017 model, logged 1,901...

The Toyota Prius has the lowest average maintenance costs over 10 years of any model, according to website YourMechanic.

Tesla and SolarCity will construct a combined solar farm and energy storage array in Hawaii.

We have news from Nissan and Tesla today.

The Chevy Volt's May sales numbers put it in the driver's seat in Canada for the fourth time in five months The country welcomed its 10,000th plug-in electric vehicle around October 2014, about 40 months after the first Nissan Leafs arrived. This past April—about 18 months later—the...

When the world at large thinks of fuel-cell vehicles—to the extent it does, at least today—they are associated with hydrogen as the fuel to power them. But a fuel cell, more broadly speaking, is any device that produces electricity from a variety of input fuels or energy carriers. This...

A Pennsylvania Ford dealer runs afoul of a town's restrictions on solar power.

As with any auto manufacturer, the vehicle production rate at Tesla Motors is intensely scrutinized by shareholders, fans, financial analysts, and competitors. Almost two years ago, CEO Elon Musk had said that the electric-car maker expected to be operating at a "run rate" of 100,000 cars a year by...

A Norwegian company hopes to produce synthetic diesel fuel on a large scale.

We have news from Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, and Toyota today.

This morning, Mercedes-Benz announced that its upcoming GLC F-Cell hydrogen fuel-cell crossover SUV would also include a battery pack that plugs in to recharge. Just like an electric car. It will be the first production vehicle in the world, in fact, to combine those two zero-emission powertrains...

Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles face the challenge of a global fueling infrastructure that doesn't exist and will cost billions to build. Electricity, on the other hand, is pretty much everywhere. Now Mercedes plans to combine the easy recharging of a plug-in electric vehicle with the long-distance...

A post on a small auto-industry blog that accused startup carmaker Tesla Motors of concealing potentially hazardous suspension breakages blew up into a major media story—and has taken some unexpected twists and turns as it's played out so far. That's par for the course for much of the news...

Toyota's new Texas headquarters will feature solar panels on parking garages.

General Motors plans to add more hybrids and electric cars, despite missing its own goal for sales volume.