Green Car News
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Volvo will buy its performance partner Polestar, and set it to work building hot-rod plug-in hybrids.
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Wheels Combine Carbon, Aluminum For Strength, Lighter WeightTwo German companies plan to market carbon-aluminum hybrid wheels.
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Tesla Adds Nevada Land; Will Gigafactory Be Planet's Biggest Building?Tesla may be planning to expand its Gigafactory before work is even completed.
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Tesla Sales, Toyota Mirai Signup, BlueIndy Controversy: Today's Car NewsTesla and Toyota make headlines today.
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BlueIndy Electric Car-Sharing Parking Spaces Fought By Indianapolis BusinessesIt always seemed unlikely, but the BlueIndy electric-car sharing program is getting closer to its rollout in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The French-made Bollore BlueCar electric two-seaters are closer to arriving, and groups of Level 2 charging stations are popping up at curbsides...
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Tesla Model S Outsold Nissan Leaf In U.S. During Q1: ReportIt's one of the great frustrations for journalists in reporting on electric cars: Tesla Motors refuses to release its monthly deliveries of cars, unlike every other legitimate automaker. The company now gives a global sales total every quarter, but that doesn't help in adding accurate U.S. sales...
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Toyota redesigns a minivan oddity for its home market.
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Washington State Caps Electric-Car Incentives At $35K Price, Hitting Tesla, BMWWashington will continue to exempt electric cars from sales tax, but only if they cost less than $35,000.
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Signup For 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan Starts July 20 (Californians Only)Toyota will begin accepting applications for the 2016 Mirai July 20.
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2012 Chevrolet Volt Racks Up 250,000 Miles, One-Third Electric, Rest At 39 MPGAn Ohio owner claims to have covered nearly 250,000 miles in his Chevy Volt.
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Elio Motors Funding, 2016 Lexus ES Hybrid, Ethanol From Carbon Monoxide: Today's Car NewsElio Motors and Lexus make headlines today.
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Belgian Steel Plant: We'll Make 50,000 Tons Of Ethanol From ByproductSteelmaker ArcelorMittal plans to install equipment that converts carbon monoxide into ethanol.
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As one website put it--in a piece tagged to lure Tesla Motors fans--Elio Motors is "the other automotive startup" to which those fans should presumably pay attention. But even Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasn't proposed "crowdsourcing" his product-development funds. Given that Elio now seems to have raised pledges for $22 million from small investors in just 20 days, perhaps Musk should pay attention? DON'T MISS: Elio Motors Offers Shares To Public In 'Crowdfunding' Investment Quest What CEO Paul Elio calls "crowdsourcing" isn't the traditional KickStarter or GoFundMe approach, however. Instead, it's...
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For Electric Car Standards, China And U.S. Work Together On RegulationsAutomotive standards--the explicitly detailed regulations that specify how a car must operate, what equipment it must or must not have, and a whole lot more--govern the design of vehicles sold around the world. And different countries and regions often have long-established standards that directly...
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2016 Lexus ES 300h Hybrid Gets Styling Update, Nicer InteriorThe 2016 Lexus ES 300h gets a styling update and some added technology features.
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Plug-In Electric Cars & Politics In Canada: Taking The PulseFactoring in likely June sales volume from Tesla and others, it's likely that about 2,500 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in Canada in the first half of 2015. This implies sales are running about level with the roughly 5,000 plug-ins sold in the country last year. With incentives in British...
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UPDATE: Tesla Superchargers Still Free In China; Fees On Sign Apply To Private ChargerTesla Motors is head and shoulders above any other electric-car maker in providing a network of charging stations for its drivers to use during their travels. It's best known for its Supercharger DC quick-charging sites, but it also provides lower-power "destination chargers" at hotels and other...
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2016 Fiat 500 Updates Include Uconnect Touchscreen, Styling TweaksThe 2016 Fiat 500 will make its public debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
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What do Russia and Texas turn out to have in common? And, how many electric cars did China build, just in June alone--and why isn't it quite as major as it sounds? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, July 10, 2015. Friday, we looked at two different places where buyers desperate want to have Tesla Model S electric cars--but can't get them, at least officially. Those would be Russia and Texas. In Russia, wealthy oligarchs love the fast, sleek, electric luxury sedans, but Tesla Motors has no official operations in...
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Second Tesla Gallery, Service Center Opening This Weekend In HoustonTesla will open a second gallery in a state where it can't legally sell cars.
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Tesla In Russia, 2016 Land Rover Diesels Priced, China Builds 25,000 Green Cars: Today's Car NewsLand Rover and Tesla make headlines today.
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China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June AloneThe Chinese vehicle market is now the world's largest, and has been for a few years now. And the country's government-industrial complex has ambitious plans to dominate global production of plug-in electric vehicles, both for reasons of competitiveness and as one effort to start to reduce its...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, June 2015: Dial 'S' For Summer (UPDATED)On July 1, Canadians celebrated the country's founding on the three principles of Peace, Order, and Good Government. The same day, electric-car advocates took heart from the announcement of a pro-plug-in policy by one of the front-runners in the country's federal election this fall. But given that...
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Diesel Vehicles Pay Back In 3-5 Years, Study Finds, Due To Lower DepreciationDiesels have a lower cost of ownership over three to five years, a new study finds.
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