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Tesla home batteries, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, and electric-car policy make headlines today.

A 1975 Enfield electric car morphs into a drag racer.

Tomorrow night, if its strong hints are accurate, Tesla Motors will announce that it plans to offer lithium-ion battery packs for home and business energy storage. Such storage comes at a cost on top of that of the photovoltaic solar panels that generate the energy. But the promise is that such...

The difference between unadjusted CAFE figures and window-sticker fuel economy.

Washington state loves electric cars, but misses out on many of them.

Toyota has been more than abundantly clear in its belief that the best approach to reducing fuel consumption and offering zero-emission vehicles lies in a combination of its present-day hybrids and future hydrogen fuel-cell cars. It no longer sells the RAV4 EV electric SUV whose powertrain was...

Bloomberg predicts the car industry will leave Big Oil behind.

Wind, natural gas, and solar power generation are set to increase in 2015 while coal decreases, government figures say.

The BYD Yuan is a small crossover with derivative styling.

It's now clear that we'll see a slew of all-electric luxury vehicles with ranges of 200 miles or more from German makers Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz starting in 2017 or 2018. What's less clear is whether those vehicles will be developed as electric cars from the ground up or whether they'll be...

The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car's chief engineer criticizes battery-electric cars.

Car buyers today have far more information than they did just 15 years ago, and they're using it. Google says that three-quarters of all auto shoppers now do hours of research before they ever visit a dealer. They can find some information on dealer invoice prices--though not necessarily all the...

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. That applied to its Roadster, the Model S...

Gas-mileage ratings for the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata are in.

Hanger signs could help eliminate conflicts over public charging spaces.

A 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen car will pace a Toyota-sponsored NASCAR race at Richmond International Raceway.

What does E85 ethanol fuel tun out to be really, really good for? And, where do you have to live to get a good clearance deal on a 2015 Chevy Volt, at least right now? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, April 24, 2015...

Hummer, Tesla, and Volvo make headlines today.

Zero South plans to drive two modified Hummers to the South Pole without using any fossil fuels.

We'd missed it until now, but pricing for the 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 'Twin Engine' plug-in hybrid SUV was released earlier this month. The base XC90 T8 Momentum trim level carries a sticker price of $69,095, which includes a mandatory $995 delivery fee. The sportier XC90 T8 R-Design starts at $70,995...