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A BMW executive believes the Volkswagen scandal will hurt all U.S. diesel sales.

WaiveCar lets users rent a Chevrolet Spark EV for two hours free, and pays for it with ads.

In almost every state, you can't buy a car online from its maker, owing to language in franchise laws that forbids direct sales, written at the behest of auto-dealer lobbyists. Whether or not that's a good thing, a majority of car buyers now research new cars online well before they ever set foot...

Ford, Tesla, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

Media days at the Detroit Auto Show two weeks ago contained relatively little new from Ford Motor Company. A lightly updated 2017 Ford Fusion mid-size sedan emerged, as did an F-150 Raptor SuperCrew performance pickup truck. And that was it for product news. Media reports that Ford and Google would...

Porsche says its plug-in hybrid models are selling well.

U.S. leaded gasoline sales ceased in January 1996.

Tesla is offering a new Model S lease deal.

A spoof film is shot using only a Toyota Prius backup camera.

A German newspaper has reported that the use of "defeat device" software to cheat on U.S. emissions laws was widespread knowledge within the diesel-engine group at Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. And, it said, one whistleblower involved in the deception had alerted a senior manager...

Honda, Nissan, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid has received numerous accolades, including this site's Best Car To Buy 2016 Award. It's better-looking, quicker, quieter, and has a significantly longer all-electric range of 53 miles. It is not, however, certified to use E85, the fuel blend containing 85...

Elio Motos hopes a U.S. Department of Energy loan will provide the funding it needs.

Nissan said yesterday it will invest £26.5 million ($37.9 million) in its battery plant in Sunderland, England, to produce "advanced" battery cells for the next-generation Leaf electric car. The announcement may end rumors that Nissan would outsource production of lithium-ion cells and...

Honda says it will begin leasing the Clarity Fuel Cell in California later this year.

From President Obama's visit to Detroit to Audi's electric SUV, we have a wide variety of stories today.

With battery-electric cars now on the market for five years, and perhaps 200,000 on U.S. roads, we now know more about how the cars and their drivers behave in the real world than we did when they first arrived. One learning is that an undercurrent among some electric-car buyers that suggests they...

Dr. Charles Alexander Escoffery converted a 1912 Baker electric car to run on solar power.

Audi will build its electric SUV in Belgium.

With some tinkering, it's possible to bypass emissions controls on diesel vehicles.