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Automakers unveiled several small SUV concepts at the 2014 India Auto Expo.

Electric cars may be suffering from the January blues, but if one analyst is correct that lull in sales won't last very long. Ben Scott, an analyst for IHS Automotive, predicts that global production of plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles will rise by 67 percent this year. According to...

Hybrid SUVs and crossover utility vehicles remain rare compared to the growing array of hybrid passenger sedans and hatchbacks. So we've been eager to test the new 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid, one of only four hybrid crossovers. MORE: 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid: Is It Hybrid Enough To Matter?...

Au revoir, Renault Fluence Z.E. You were among the first electric cars on the market, and you've lived through Better Place's bankruptcy, but now you're gone. Gas2 reports that Renault has quietly discontinued its electric sedan, which has sold little more than 3,500 units since going on sale in...

The Honda Civic Hybrid and Natural Gas get a few changes for the 2014 model year.

In the first month of 2014, sales of the two most popular plug-in electric cars were lower than they've been in many months. Sales levels likely fell victim both to the predictable winter slowdown in electric-car sales (which we saw in 2012 and 2013 too) and to particularly bad weather last month...

The 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel's EPA fuel-economy ratings are in.

Diesel and electric cars make headlines today.

Every so often, Hyundai posts an entry on its "Hyundai Like Sunday" blog, which promotes itself as "Truth, Candor and Conversation." Two months ago, the company's Elizabeth Chun offered some thoughts on its upcoming 2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell compact crossover. That vehicle will be offered for...

For the most part, the selection of truly practical electric vehicles--or even hybrids, for that matter--has been relatively poor. In terms of all-electric crossovers, there's the Toyota RAV4 EV and... well, the Toyota RAV4 EV. That'll change when Tesla launches its Model X crossover and now German...

Humans and batteries--and indeed most other things in the natural world, operate on largely similar principals. Energy is generated somehow, stored, and expended for work. It's only the details that separate these processes, but the gap might shrink with the advent of biobatteries. As ExtremeTech...

Sales, an auto show, and an anniversary make headlines today.

Five years ago today, Green Car Reports began a daily publishing schedule. At first one a day, and then more, we wrote articles on fuel efficiency, hybrids, diesel vehicles, and the plug-in electric cars that were then still two years away from the market. Think back to February 2009, when the...

How did you fare in the Snowpocalypse? The recent polar vortex over the North American content dumped heavy snow on dozens of states and brought in truly Arctic temperatures, causing widespread travel disruption. While Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell vehicles aren't immune to snow-bound traffic, they...

A trial program with electric cars at the Kennedy Space Center is going better than expected, cutting greenhouse gas emissions in company vehicles. In fact, the center's sustainability office suggests the results are 10 times better than those expected--electric cars are making a real impact...

Electric car owners may not have to get their hands dirty at gas stations, but they do have to carry around an extra essential item not found in their internal combustion counterparts--a charging cord. This is little hardship of course, provided your car has somewhere to store it. But depending on...

The first Volkswagen Beetle was imported to the U.S. in January 1949.

So far, the controversial BYD electric bus has proven satisfactory in Canadian testing.

This September, a new motorsport series launches in Beijing, China. That series is Formula E, an open-wheeled single-seater motorsport running on battery power alone. It's positioned as a top tier series for electric racing and could be instrumental in aiding the development of batteries and...

Today on Green Car Reports: We're debunking even more myths about green cars, car-builder Saleen has said its first performance electric car will be based on Tesla's Model S, and VW has announced its plug-in hybrid Golf will carry the sporty GTE badge. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Saleen...