Green Car News

Natural-gas vehicles have never had much acceptance in the North American passenger car market, and even trucks powered by it are struggling. While natural gas is presently abundant in North America, courtesy of the controversial process of hydrofracturing ("fracking"), a new study suggests there's...

Governor Jerry Brown marked National Drive Electric week by signing six electric-car bills.

Southwest is expected to begin using biofuel in 2016.

When an unknown automotive startup from Silicon Valley unveiled an all-electric sports car with supercar performance back in 2006, the shock was enough to make industry giant GM sit up and pay attention. That, plus the desire to gain some of the green halo seized by Toyota's Prius hybrid, led GM's...

From a heavily updated Toyota Yaris to lease deals on the BMW i3 electric car, today seems to be small-car day--although a convertible conversion of the big luxury Tesla Model S offsets all of that. Plus, we dig into what makes a new French compressed-air hybrid concept car work. All this and more...

The Rockefellers will divest fossil-fuel stocks from their charity.

National Plug-In Day became National Drive Electric Week for the first time, with seven days worth of electric-car events.

A hybrid system, broadly defined, is any two power sources that combine to provide torque to drive a car's wheels. While most are hybrid-electric--a combustion engine plus one or two electric motors powered by a battery pack--other types exist as well. France's PSA Peugeot Citroën is...

Jeep and Toyota make headlines today.

The 2015 BMW i8 online configurator is live.

Time was, the Toyota Prius hybrid was the unquestioned technology champion and king of the fuel-efficiency battles. No longer, though. Now, as Toyota starts to plan for the launch of its fourth-generation flagship hybrid car, the legendary Prius faces more competition than ever before from newer...

Start-stop systems, which switch off a car's engine while it's stopped to boost fuel efficiency, are now entering the U.S. market in serious numbers. Many European makers, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and MINI, are fitting them as standard on 2015 models, and there are more to come: By 2022, some...

The 2015 Jeep Renegade is Jeep's smallest modern utility vehicle.

A plug-in crossover, fast charging, and hydrogen fueling stations make headlines today.

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive gets PlugShare integration.

Funding construction alone won't be enough to build a successful hydrogen infrastructure.

Pity poor Mitsubishi, whose Outlander Plug-In Hybrid has been on sale in Europe and Asia for almost two years. But the plug-in hybrid SUV's U.S. debut has been delayed several times, and now is set for the fall of 2015, likely as a 2016 model. Now we can get a glimpse of what the revised plug-in...

The 2015 Honda CR-V will feature updated styling and other changes.

Plenty of electric-car news stories today.

GM released four-cylinder gasoline fuel-economy estimates for its new mid-size trucks.