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The U.N.'s aviation agency drafted the first-ever emissions rules for airplanes.

A flower retailer comes up with a creative use for Tesla's "Summon" feature.

We have news on electric cars and diesel trucks today.

For a couple of years, Georgia offered an example to the rest of the nation on how a seemingly unlikely state could boost electric-car sales. Then it all came crashing down. Last spring, opponents of the state's generous $5,000 income-tax credit for purchase of a zero-emission vehicle killed off...

Oil prices won't increase much over the next decade, one oil trader predicts.

Allen Schaeffer probably doesn't have the easiest job these days. He's executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of diesel engines, fuel, and technology. With the Volkswagen diesel-emission scandal soon to enter...

Tesla Model X deliveries in China will apparently start before Europe.

We have lots of electric car news today.

The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set...

You almost have to pity the Cadillac ELR range-extended electric coupe: It's a very pretty car with luxurious appointments, but no one wants to buy it. And if the rumors that now-departed General Motors CEO Dan Akerson personally set its initial price at $75,000 are true, you have to wonder how it...

About 55 percent of U.S. plug-in car sales in January were in California, according to the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative.

If an electric Audi is good, then an electric Audi plus an electric Volkswagen plus an electric Porsche plus an electric Bentley must be better, yes? At least, that would seem to be the thinking at VW Group, which over the last six months has announced plans for the first three brands to launch...

Bosch claims its "active gas pedal" can yield fuel-economy savings of up to seven percent.

Which large factory hasn't quite lived up to its projections for jobs or investment as yet? And, what do we see as the biggest electric-car trends between now and 2020? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, February 5, 2016...

We've got lots of policy news today.

Job growth and capital investments in the Tesla "Gigafactory" project aren't meeting projections, Nevada officials say.

The 2016 Toyota Prius appears in a Super Bowl TV ad.

California is by far the most advanced state in adopting plug-in electric cars. Fully 45.3 percent of the country's more than 400,000 plug-in cars were sold in California, according to data from the state's Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative. But electric cars need public charging stations...

The California Air Resources Board shows the type of equipment that found Volkswagen's "defeat device" software.

Like an exhausted Times Square reveler, the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market tends to start the New Year slowly, and this past January was no exception. Chevy sold 94 Volts, down more than half from December's 220 but well ahead of the 71 from a year ago. Similarly, Nissan's 72 Leaf sales...