Green Car News

We have news from Honda and Tesla today.

Battery makers are becoming increasingly important in the development of electric cars.

Audi recently concluded a four-year public trial of plug-in cars.

The 2017 Honda Clarity will arrive in showrooms late this year with a hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain, one of three hydrogen-powered vehicles that will be sold in limited numbers in specific California regions that have hydrogen fueling stations up and running. But Honda has much larger plans for the...

Tesla owners can try out Autopilot for a month for free.

We have lots of news from Europe today.

A proposal by the Dutch Labor Party would end sales of internal-combustion cars in 2025.

U.K. electric-car sales hit record highs in the first quarter of 2016.

Updates to the millions of Volkswagen TDI diesel cars that turned out not to meet European emission regulations were supposed to be well underway by now. German authorities had signed off on the modifications—software updates and for one group of engines, a new plastic insert to alter...

The 2016 Ford Fusion Energi now comes with a large cash-back offer in California.

Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars. Since then, the company has built and sold two generations of the Chevrolet Volt, with the launch of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV imminent within a...

The 2016 Chevrolet Cruze achieves a best of 30 mpg city, 42 mpg highway, 40 mpg combined.

Though many countries opt out of daylight savings time, the Canadian auto market always "springs forward" in March. Last month set a Canuck record for total March auto sales, at 175,000 units; depending on Tesla volumes to be reported this month, the plug-in electric vehicle segment may have broken...

Volkswagen sales declined in the U.S. and Germany, but increased in China.

China will issue special green license plates to "new energy vehicles."

Today, we have electric-car predictions from the 2016 New York Auto Show, a company confident it can build Elon Musk's "Hyperloop," and slightly improved gas mileage for the 2017 Subaru Forester. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Catch up on last week's major news with our Week in Reverse...

One of three companies looking to build a full-scale Hyperloop is recruiting engineers.

Every so often, Green Car Reports is asked to take part in panels and industry events discussing the future of advanced auto technologies—particularly electric cars. Two weeks ago, at the New York Auto Show, site editor John Voelcker joined electric-car advocate Chelsea Sexton and Salim Morsy...

The 2017 Subaru Forester gets slightly better gas mileage than before.

Carmakers may soon begin promoting electric cars based on their driving experience.