Green Car News

Chevy, Nissan, and Toyota make headlines today.

One of the biggest concerns among electric-car advocates is GM's ability to create and sustain a smart, coherent, clever, and explanatory marketing campaign for its new 2016 Chevrolet Volt. The plug-in hybrid with a 50-mile range will arrive on the market in the second half of this year, but Chevy...

One of the notable features of last year's electric-car sales was the strong, and so far sustained, sales of the radical new BMW i3 electric car. The little plastic-bodied battery-electric vehicle from Munich, with its odd coach doors and its rear electric motor, sold more than 1,000 cars a month...

A program to replace faulty hatch struts will not be classified as an official recall.

Toyota's public attack on electric cars shows no signs of letting up. Its first sallies were two ads from its Lexus luxury brand slamming electric cars for range anxiety. Now, a Toyota executive has all but sneered at Tesla Motors for putting "all its eggs in one basket" by making only...

Kansas City Power & Light says its charging-site project is the largest ever undertaken by a U.S. utility.

BMW and Mitsubishi make headlines today.

Data is important. Data on the effects of changing economic factors is very important to the car industry. Which is why it's disappointing to see a Nissan executive repeating the canard that falling gas prices can hurt sales of plug-in electric cars. DON'T MISS: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Continue...

The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid's U.S. launch is delayed again.

Toyota is recalling certain 2014 and 2015 Prius V hybrid wagons to fix an improperly-calibrated airbag occupant classification system.

General Motors and Tesla make headlines today.

Low oil prices won't affect renewable energy, analysts say.

The BMW i3 electric car will star in the brand's first Super Bowl ad in four years.

The cost of installing and maintaining DC fast-charging stations could pose a challenge to further adoption.

How the 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE squeezes extra efficiency out of Ram's diesel half-ton truck.

General Motors launches its Green Dealer Recognition program to encourage energy-efficient practices.

Awards to dealerships and car-dealer groups are common, and often both appreciated and promoted by their recipients. A new award nomination that recognizes the work of state dealer lobbyists, however, is not likely to get that appreciation or publicity--at least from dealers in those four states...

What was the big news this week in electric car charging? And why is one Hellcat owner really, really miserable right about now? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 23, 2015. Friday, we covered the growing...

How Elon Musk's planned Hyperloop test track could become a bargaining chip in the game of direct sales.

BMW, Volkswagen, and Tesla make headlines today.