Green Car News

See four special Nissan Leaf electric cars from the first four years on sale.

Two alternative powertrains are among Ward's 2015 "10 Best Engines."

Volvo will add a three-cylinder engine to its Drive-E series.

BMW is calling 2015 the "year of infrastructure."

Chrysler, Honda, and Nissan make headlines today.

Chrysler is reportedly looking to increase the efficiency of its Pentastar V-6 engine.

A new startup looks to break into the electric-car battery business.

Honda translated lessons learned from its green-dealer program into a set of voluntary guidelines.

It's hardly a secret that Nissan is by far the world's biggest seller of electric cars, and that its foray into the field four years ago was the work of its CEO, Carlos Ghosn. Now Ghosn has laid out the four reasons that he believes electric cars are being adopted--and will continue to do so in the...

Honda and Tesla make headlines today.

The Tesla Model X will be available with an optional towing hitch.

The European Union's CleanSky 2 program aims to reduce aircraft emissions.

Nissan is sticking with battery-electric cars, an executive says.

Your mileage may vary, as the saying goes. But it turns out that real-world fuel efficiency in European cars varies considerably more from official ratings than in the U.S. And some car brands are so far off from their ratings that a buyer may only get two-thirds of the published fuel efficiency...

Thinking about taking your electric car on a road trip? Be prepared, and you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised by how smoothly it can go. If you plan to take a trip outside of your normal comfort zone, it’s now possible in many regions of the country. It just takes a little advance...

Using plug-in electric cars as temporary energy storage and supply sources can stabilize the grid, a new study has found. A fleet of electric vehicles represents a large distributed array of storage batteries to an electric utility, potentially attractive for smoothing grid variations. Those cars...

The 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine is based around a four-cylinder engine with both turbocharging and supercharging.

The Wards Auto Fuel Economy Index recorded a decrease in new-car average fuel economy in November compared to the same time last year.

People who buy new cars generally like and enjoy them during the first months or years of ownership. Many Tesla owners, however, seem to love their cars with a deep, abiding, even overwhelming passion. This is one such story. A longtime personal friend and his partner recently acquired a 2014 Tesla...

BMW and Toyota make headlines today.