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BYD, Ford, and Tesla make headlines today.

Panasonic's president says the company will invest $1.6 billion in the Tesla Gigafactory.

The 2017 Ford Fusion, unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show, enters its fifth model year with what the industry calls a mid-cycle refresh: a few styling updates, some new standard equipment, and changes to trim levels. The mid-size sedan's hybrid and plug-in hybrid models too benefit from those...

Five years after the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt first went on sale, plug-in vehicles represent slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. new-car deliveries. With about 200,000 sold, the Leaf is the world's most popular electric car. But which carmaker sold the most cars with plugs last year, worldwide?...

The Hyundai Ioniq will be sold in all 50 states, but not at every Hyundai dealer.

Audi, Nissan, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

By this point, the principles of corporate crisis-management communications are pretty well established. A company with a looming PR catastrophe needs to respond immediately, keep one trustworthy and high-level executive in front of the cameras, repeatedly promise the company will make good, and...

These are the best deals on green cars for January 2016.

Hot on the heels of the all-electric Audi e-Tron Quattro Concept it revealed last fall, VW Group's luxury brand Audi has released a second iteration of the same concept. This one still has all four wheels powered by electric motors, but the electricity to run them comes not from a large battery...

Toyota is asking some California dealers to stop Mirai deliveries until more fueling stations open.

The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq will debut first as a hybrid.

General Motors and Volkswagen make headlines today.

Honda and General Motors will reportedly cooperate on plug-in hybrid powertrains.

For half a century, California has been at the forefront of reducing emissions and cleaning up air pollution. And the state has made breathtaking progress since the days of early-Seventies technicolor photochemical smog alerts. But then bad things happen--and a leak at a single natural-gas well...

The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has received largely positive reviews for the production version unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And as the first affordable 200-mile electric car, expected to go on sale before the end of this year, it will likely reset consumer...

We have news from Chrysler, Kia, and Tesla today.

Tesla Motors continue to add self-driving capabilities to its Model S electric car at a breathtaking pace, and the company announced yet more this past Sunday. This latest software upgrade, Version 7.1, has been eagerly awaited by Model S owners whose cars were built since August 2014. The new...

NASA is testing a propulsion concept that uses wing-mounted electric motors.

FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne is afraid electric powertrains will give suppliers too much power.

Volkswagen will give 3.0-liter V-6 diesel owners the same "goodwill" package offered to owners of 2.0-liter four-cylinder cars.