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The Chinese government is expected to enact more electric-car friendly measures in its next five-year plan.

Which new electric car is generating comparisons to the hated HUMMER? And, what eagerly awaited new green car has had dribs and drabs of information trickling out for weeks now? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday...

Chevrolet, Tesla, and Volkswagen make headlines today.

Honda will install 120 electric-car charging stations at its U.S. headquarters.

A couple of weeks ago, Volkswagen seemed confident that it would be just a matter of weeks before it made some simple tweaks and got its 2016 lineup of TDI diesel vehicles certified by the EPA. That was before the existence of a second, and different, piece of software--previously undisclosed by...

Tesla Motors is now rolling out its much-awaited "Autopilot" software for the Model S electric car, and it has revealed a number of things about how the autonomous driving system is intended to work. While an explanatory conference call on Wednesday afternoon lasted less than an hour, Tesla CEO...

Volkswagen will recall 8.5 million diesel cars in Europe, including 2.4 million in Germany.

Toyota and Volvo make headlines today.

Volvo says it will put an electric car on sale by 2019.

Toyota releases more information on the 2016 Prius.

We've got lots of stories on infrastructure today.

Carmakers want to cut off public access to their software, potentially hampering important independent research.

We all know how to compare horsepower, acceleration, and gas mileage. Practical car buyers know to look at cargo volume, too. But when it comes to buying your first electric car, there are a few things you need to know about charging. Like the better-known measurements, the rate at which a plug-in...

The 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid has made its world debuts and should arrive at U.S. dealers starting around January. But specific details have been surprisingly sparse. Yesterday, Toyota released a few specifications at an event in Japan. Now, we've learned more about the car's different trim levels...

Volkswagen may add an electric powertrain to its Phaeton luxury sedan.

The Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal has caused executive heads to roll, cars to be yanked off sale, and regulators to pore over real-world emission data with a laser-like focus. It has made the future of the VW Group as the world's largest carmaker seem far more perilous than it did...

Here are the best green-car deals for October 2015.

An Arizona utility will rent customers' roof to install solar panels.

While it has unveiled the all-new 2016 Prius hybrid twice--once at a glitzy event in Las Vegas, once at the Frankfurt Motor Show--Toyota has been very stingy with technical information about the powertrain that will let the car earn promised EPA combined ratings of 55 mpg or better. At an event in...

Mitsubishi, Tesla, and Volkswagen make headlines today.