Green Car News
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Land Rover prices its two new diesel models.
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Russian Plutocrats Crave Tesla Model S; Electric Carmaker ResistsTesla has quite a following in Russia.
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Tesla China Charging, Efficient Autonomous Cars, 2016 Kia Soul EV In OR & WA: Today's Car NewsKia and Tesla make headlines today.
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Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe Gets Huge Sales Incentive: UPDATEThe Honda CR-Z gets a huge incentive as sales lag.
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How To Cut Vehicle Emissions 90 Percent: Get Rid Of Human DriversA fleet of autonomous electric taxis could largely replace private cars, researchers argue.
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2016 Kia Soul EV To Go On Sale In Oregon, Washington; Some Dealers Get DC Quick ChargingKia will sell its electric car in two more states.
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Trucks can benefit from fuel-saving features already used on many cars.
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2016 Mercedes GLE550e Driven, BMW Plug-In Hybrid Prototype, Fisker Karma Update: Today's Car NewsBMW, Fisker, and Mercedes-Benz make headlines today.
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2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE550e Plug-In Hybrid: Quick DriveUntil quite recently, luxury SUVs and plugging in didn’t really go together. Yet with the introduction of the 2015 Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid, the upcoming 2016 BMW X5 xDrive40e, and soon the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE550e Plug-In Hybrid, this corner of the market has entirely changed. All three...
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New Fisker Targets Mid-2016 For U.S. Production Of Luxury Plug-In HybridFisker expects to restart production by next year.
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NRG eVgo Electric-Car Fast Chargers Future-Proofed To 100 KWNRG eVgo plans to focus more on facilitating intercity electric-car driving.
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BMW To Add Another Plug-In Hybrid? If So, Not For U.S. SaleBMW unveils a prototype 2 Series Active Tourer plug-in hybrid.
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Dutch students return with an updated version of their solar "family car."
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BMW Hydrogen Prototypes, Uber CEO Loves Tesla, U.S. Average MPG: Today's Car NewsBMW and Tesla make headlines today.
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BMW Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Prototypes Now Testing, Production "Sometime After 2020"As the cost of advanced technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of vehicle travel rises, car companies have increasingly partnered to share those technologies and their costs. Now BMW has shown the first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle prototypes from its partnership of several years with Toyota...
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Average Fuel Economy Reaches 25.4 MPG In U.S. Vehicles During First HalfJune new-car average fuel economy may have been affected by SUV sales.
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BMW: Water Injection Can Boost Power And Cut Fuel ConsumptionBMW demonstrates water injection as an efficiency-boosting measure on a 1-Series prototype.
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Uber CEO To Tesla: Sell Me Half A Million Autonomous Electric Cars In 2020Uber is reportedly interested in Tesla autonomous-car development.
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Electric cars and a solar-powered airplane make headlines today.
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In June: Leaf, Volt Wane After May Surge: FINAL UPDATENew cars and trucks are selling at a blistering pace in the U.S. right now, adding to a seventh consecutive year of volume growth for the industry. But with half the year gone, sales of plug-in electric cars are in something of a holding pattern despite a surge last month, pending the launch of two...
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Will Future Tesla Model S Top Toyota Mirai's 312-Mile Range?Hydrogen fuel-cell cars today have many similarities to electric cars. Both employ advanced zero-emission powertrains that power the wheels with electric motors, both cost more to buy than gasoline cars of the same size, and both represent only a tiny fraction of today's car market. The main...
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Solar Impulse Sun-Powered Airplane Lands Safely In HawaiiSolar Impulse 2 set a flight record for time and distance by a solar-powered aircraft.
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U.S. Electric-Car Battery Industry Could Grow If Supply Base MaturesU.S. battery manufacturers could soon become competitive with their Asian counterparts, a new report finds.
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Ford C-Max Hybrids Recalled To Fix Engine Shut-Off ProblemFord is recalling C-Max hybrids as part of a larger recall of more than 432,000 cars.
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