plug-in cars

The Renault Zoe was the best-selling electric car in Europe through June, while the Mitsubishi Outlander was the best-selling plug-in hybrid.

The Sierra Club has recommendations for automakers, dealers, and policymakers on improving the electric-car sales experience.

The Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan has had a dizzying array of battery offerings over its four-year life, and the Model X has had quite a few over less than a year. Now it appears that we may be getting closer to the rumored 100-kilowatt-hour battery option for the top-of-the-line Teslas. If a...

Tesla opens its largest North America store as part of an overall retail push.

Dealers may be an obstacle to increased electric-car adoption, according to a Sierra Club report.

A new book explains how humans often obstruct their own progress.

Almost no U.S. car buyers sit down at their kitchen table and kick off a chat by saying, "Honey, we need to buy a city car." The only exceptions are those in a handful of crowded cities like New York and San Francisco, for whom a very short car that is easy to park may take priority. But as sales...

The Michigan Treasury Department increased its stake in Tesla in the second quarter.

As the 2017 Karma Revero gets closer to its official launch later this year, its maker has released the first official photo of the luxury plug-in hybrid sedan. The rebooted Karma is a modified and updated version of the car previously sold in 2012 as the Fisker Karma, before its maker shut down...

The 2017 Audi A3 Sportback e-tron will get the same updates as the rest of the 2017 A3 lineup.

Three months later, the May 7 death of a Model S driver in Florida continues to generate headlines and spark debate on the merits of electronic driver-assistance technologies. But a recent story points out at least one of the potential future advantages to self-driving cars: their ability to...

Group purchases of cars and other goods, as a way of driving down the price, are common in other countries—think China—but rare in North America. But over the last two years, they've emerged as a way for electric-car advocates to accomplish several goals at once. Buyers both get better...

These are the best deals on green cars for August 2016.

This site covers all manner of vehicles, mostly for personal transport, with a focus on energy efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and advanced technologies to do so. When we started daily publication in 2009, our most popular articles were about hybrid cars. Now, our readers' highest...

National Drive Electric Week takes place September 10-18.

Karma Automotive plans to use both franchised dealerships and company-owned "brand experience centers."

The Tesla Model 3 electric car, which its maker says will launch late next year with 200 miles of range and a $35,000 price, has caused a few shock waves across the car industry. All the German luxury makers now have plans for their own 200-mile battery-electric vehicles coming in 2018 or later, at...

Nissan unveiled a pair of prototypes based on its BladeGlider electric sports car concept in Brazil.

Through May, the Fusion Hybrid and Energi models account for 42 percent of Los Angeles-area Fusion sales.

Nissan, alone among high-volume electric car makers, owns half of the company that makes the battery cells for its cars. Tesla Motors doesn't own any of Panasonic, which has supplied all cells to date for its three vehicles (though Panasonic owns a small part of Tesla). GM doesn't own any of LG...