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Just in time for the holiday-feast season, we now have published charts that detail the effect of cold weather on the battery range of Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars. Think "range shrinkage". The data comes courtesy of FleetCarma, the Canadian company whose app MyCarma tracks vehicle...

You might think that a list of the best engines on sale would be dominated by screaming sports car engines or a muscular V-8 from the latest muscle car. And while it's true that both feature on the Wards Automotive list of its 2014 Ten Best Engines, as well as several other high-performance units...

The on-again--then off-again, then on-again, then off-again, then on-again--Audi R8 e-tron all-electric sports car may in fact hit showrooms next year after all. And it's all due to what Audi suggests are unspecified advances in battery technology. The Australian site Drive (via Motor Authority)...

Jeep has only recently nailed its colors to the diesel mast, but already the famous off-road arm of Chrysler is looking to other propulsion technologies--namely hybrid vehicles. Executives at the company have called the move to electrification "inevitable", according to Drive--but they're also...

An ex-Apple executive says Tesla Motors' dealer model could be the future of car sales.

We didn't expect the Volkswagen XL1 to be as much fun to drive as it is. Which makes it doubly a shame that Volkswagen won't be selling its radically efficient, two-seat, plug-in diesel hybrid XL1 model in North America. At a price of € 111,000 (roughly $153,000), the 250 XL1 cars that...

Three years ago yesterday, the first retail buyer of a brand-new Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was handed his keys in Denville, New Jersey. Just three days earlier, the first Nissan Leaf buyer had received his battery-electric car in a large ceremony at San Francisco's City Hall...

Stop-start systems have taken much longer to infiltrate the U.S. market than they have elsewhere, but several manufacturers are finally coming around to the idea of the gas-saving technology. One such automaker is Ford, which has announced that 70 percent of its North American vehicle lineup will...

FAW-Volkswgaen's new electric car will use Protean in-wheel motors.

You might be forgiven for thinking that as cars get ever heavier, better equipped, safer, more practical, more powerful and faster, fuel economy would suffer. Thankfully, the EPA's latest set of statistics proves that isn't the case--and dispels other notions such as increasing weight and ever...

The 1959 Opel P1 set a record of 376 mpg in a test at an Illinois airfield in 1973.

It's been said before but bears repeating: One of the best ways to get people interested in electric cars is to get "butts in seats"--getting potential customers behind the wheel to experience the cars and see just how good they are to drive. It's not always easy to do, though. Some people don't...

What's been happening in the world of green automotive news this week? Let's recap: News broke that Ford might consider diesel, hybrid or even electric powertrains for the Mustang in the future, and we discussed what the new 2015 Mustang's fuel-economy ratings might be. In Tesla-related news...

Today on Green Car Reports: A lesson in electric-car charging etiquette, chemists propose using methanol fuel cells to power cars, and lessons learned road-tripping in a Tesla Model S. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The owner of a 100,000-mile Nissan Leaf electric car will be honored...

Could a methanol economy replace the hydrogen economy?

Humble cars designed by supercar stylists are nothing new. The original Fiat Panda, one of Europe's best-loved cars through the 1980s, was the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro, best known for cars like the Lotus Esprit. The first-generation Volkswagen Golf was another Giugiaro product. Marcello Gandini...

It's one facet of the American myth: Get in your car, drive away from wherever you are, take the road trip. Think crossing the country to find the California Dream. Think Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Think buddy movies. MORE: Tesla Model S Road Trip: 1,200 West Coast Electric-Car Miles More...

Toyota hopes advances in design and parts sharing will cut the cost of fuel-cell vehicles.

Today on Green Car Reports: We run down what happened on a second Tesla Model S road trip, BMW i3 repairs may not be as pricey as feared, and we tell you all about Honda's hybrids. All this and more on Green Car Reports. It may have a body of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), but the 2014 BMW...

People tend to recall bad or frustrating experiences more acutely than good ones. Which is likely why a staple of plug-in car forums is the bad-treatment-at-a-car-dealership story. Anecdotes abound about Chevrolet and Nissan dealers who tried to pull Volt and Leaf buyers away from plug-in electrics...