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BMW, General Motors, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

After last month's announcement of a plan that could pull hundreds of thousands of illegally polluting VW Group diesel cars off the road, one out of every six TDI owners is still in limbo. That's because the plan covers only the 482,000 cars equipped with Volkswagen's 2.0-liter 4-cylinder...

The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is the fourth plug-in car to reach 100,000 sales globally.

It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently. This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. Now, General Motors has said that the Lyft...

Chinese startup Future Mobility Corp. just hired a group of employees from BMW.

Today, the Tesla Model S gets another battery-pack option, a report claims Audi developed a diesel "defeat device" in 1999, and two charging networks attract additional investment. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The updated 2016 Tesla Model S will get the 75-kilowatt-hour battery-pack...

With the Stanley Cup destined to be won by an American team for the 23rd straight year, Canadian hockey fans seemingly spent the month of April shopping. The country's monthly auto sales topped 200,000 for the first time in history, and least two plug-in electric vehicles set sales records. None...

ChargePoint and NRG EVgo are getting additional private funding.

After the usual winter doldrums at the start of the year, April proved to be a good month for plug-in electric car sales in the U.S. March was a record-breaking month, and as April results come in today and tomorrow, last month's pace seems to be robust as well. As usual, the two highest-volume...

Audi developed a "defeat device" in 1999, a new report claims.

BMW, Ford, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

Nissan pokes fun at Tesla in new print ads.

A main aspect of the agreement between VW and the EPA to settle its diesel-emission cheating scandal is an offer by Volkswagen to buy back all 482,000 2.0-liter TDI diesel vehicles sold from 2009 through 2015. The details of that agreement won't be made public until June 21, and won't be finalized...

For a decade now, Tesla Motors has been the "black swan" of the auto industry. It's a California company startup, founded from scratch, using a new powertrain, that against all odds has sold more than 100,000 electric cars and created a brand known worldwide. You can almost hear the grinding of...

The 2017 Ford F-150 gets a second-generation 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 and new 10-speed automatic transmission.

Mitsubishi and Tesla make headlines today.

The BMW i8 may soon get powertrain upgrades and wireless charging.

Sometimes the language and imagery of a news story is so startling that you're drawn to read it despite yourself. (The writer gets double points if it you're lured in without the phrase, "...and you'll never guess what happens next!") A headline and phrase last week in The New York Times happened...

General Motors is trying to get as much use as possible out of the current-generation Chevrolet Volt's Voltec powertrain.

Elon Musk says Tesla's fourth-generation electric car will be more affordable than the Model 3.