Green Car News

Hyundai, Mazda, and Mercedes-Benz make headlines today.

The first Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car won all sorts of awards in 2011, the year it was introduced. But it didn't win that year's Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, because we deemed the world's first mass-priced high-volume battery-electric car more significant. That car, the...

Mazda was again named the most fuel-efficient carmaker in the U.S. by the EPA.

It's been clear for a couple of years now that the German luxury makers feel they need competitive responses to the startling emergence of electric-car maker Tesla Motors. One by one, the concept vehicles--and production plans--have appeared, first the Audi e-Tron Quattro Concept and most recently...

The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq will debut in January.

Volkswagen and Volvo make headlines today.

Five years after the first modern mass-market electric car launched, stories of recalcitrant car dealers continue to surface from buyers. Walk into a dealership, explain that you want to buy an electric car ... and then endure a litany of reasons why you don't. But a meticulously documented...

We were impressed by our first drive of the U.S.-spec 2016 Audi A3 e-Tron Sportback, enough so that it's the first of five nominees for our Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy award. The compact hatchback is powered by a 150-horsepower 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine combined with a...

The 2017 Volvo S90 will get the T8 "Twin Engine" plug-in hybrid powertrain from the XC90.

German prosecutors are investigating Bosch to see if it helped VW configure "defeat device" software.

We have news on upcoming electric cars and more today.

As promised, we'll be announcing our nominees for the Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy award this week. But first, it's time note all those candidates that didn't make the final cut. This year, we're explaining why each one isn't on the final nominees list. Remember, to qualify for...

Increasingly, buying or leasing a new car includes connectivity that extends well beyond the driver’s seat and the car’s cabin—to one’s smartphone and possibly even smartwatch. And electric cars are the type of vehicles for which these capabilities can be especially well put...

Nissan will launch an extended-range electric vehicle distinct from the Leaf.

Saab owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) says it will launch an electric car in 2017, and four more in 2018.

Seems like starting an electric car company making luxury vehicles is all the rage in Silicon Valley these days. Tesla Motors, of course, is now well-established, although its Southern California counterpart Fisker Automotive declared bankruptcy and is now hoping for resurrection under a new owner...

With Toyota having delivered a total of 57 Mirai sedan in October and November, the drivers of those hydrogen fuel-cell cars will be looking for stations at which to fuel their new zero-emission vehicles. But the state of California's ambitious program to install dozens of hydrogen stations is...

EVgo opens a fast-charging site that can charge cars on multiple standards simultaneously.

Volkswagen says a small group of employees were responsible for the "defeat device" software.

Fleet-turnover rates make implementing efficiency improvements a drawn-out process.