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The 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage gets a host of updates, but remains a very basic economy car.

Electric cars may have an advantage over gasoline cars in energy density when powertrain efficiency is considered.

We have stories on General Motors and Tesla today.

More carmakers may soon turn to 48-volt mild hybrids to improve fuel efficiency.

First, there was the Volt. Then came the Bolt, later renamed the Bolt EV. Now, there's the Jolt EV, the third Chevrolet electrical car. At least, that's what appeared on a website a few weeks ago—the all-electric Chevrolet Jolt EV, a sporty two-door coupe offering more than 230 miles of...

Volvo will build electric cars based on its two main vehicle platforms.

Toyota says it has sold 9 million hybrids globally.

Tesla Motors' audacious goal of building half a million cars a year by the end of 2018 will require boosting its production by a factor of 10 over just two and a half years. And it will require nothing less than a reorientation of the entire company toward manufacturing, even as vehicle development...

Nissan is launching a line of energy-storage battery packs called xStorage.

Which long-challenged luxury electric car was finally, quietly euthanized by its maker? And, what kind of new vehicle has inventor Nikola Tesla given his name to now? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, May 20, 2016. Friday...

A Madrid taxi company will receive 110 Nissan Leaf taxis.

Gasoline prices, which fell below $2 a gallon in many parts of the United States over the winter, have been slowly rising again. And given the supply-and-demand equations in the global oil industry, that means that demand has risen as supplies have stayed steady or fallen. So even though Saudi...

The BMW i3 is the only electric car in the world sold with an optional range-extending engine to increase driving capability beyond the range provided by the battery. The "REx" option adds a small, 34-horsepower 650cc two-cylinder engine, derived from one used in BMW motorcycles, that powers a...

In March, BMW was the top alternate brand considered by Tesla shoppers.

Today, Germany goes ahead with its plan to incentivize plug-in hybrids and EVs, Tesla Model 3 reservations top 373,000 after the dust has settled, Suzuki's woes may be mounting over fuel economy estimates, and more up next. BMW's not just betting big on its "i" range of cars—it's going all...

The hundreds of thousands of $1,000 deposits placed for the Tesla Model 3 electric cars by potential buyers around the world came as an eye-opening shock to the auto industry. More than 100,000 such deposits were placed during the day that preceded the car's unveiling on the evening of March 31...

Suzuki said it used the wrong methods for fuel-economy tests, but implied the deception wasn't intentional.

Would the Tesla Model S make a good police car?

Germany will finally implement incentives for electric cars.

After a long and tortured development process and a short life, GM has quietly euthanized its Cadillac ELR range-extended electric luxury coupe. The derivative of the first-generation Chevrolet Volt was intended to sell at a higher price, to help recoup some of the development costs of the Voltec...