plug-in cars

Lincoln will offer free pickup and delivery service for 2017 models.

The continuing tepid sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car, despite a range upgrade to 107 miles, remains one of the puzzles in the plug-in car market. Sure, it's an aging model now in its sixth year with a polarizing design; it lost a huge swath of buyers in Georgia when that state canceled its...

Electric cars will enable autonomous driving and sharing services, a new report says.

Tesla is shipping Model X owners sunshades for their windshields.

An electric car built by Swiss students set a world acceleration record.

Jaguar may be planning hybrid and all-electric SUVs.

FCA is considering an electric Maserati sports car and Fiat city car.

BMW will use i3 battery packs for home energy storage.

In the past two months, the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec announced aggressive climate-change policies, both featuring strong plug-in electric vehicle support. Ontario's provincial government followed up on its recently-strengthened purchase rebates with a battery of policies including...

Several countries have proposed ending sales of new gasoline and diesel cars.

It's a frequent complaint from car shoppers: all the affordable electric cars are small hatchbacks or sedans, but I want an SUV. Indeed, there's only one all-electric crossover utility vehicle on the market—the Tesla Model X—and that will run you $80,000 or more. Now it appears that...

Toyota may consider building battery-electric cars in the future, the chief engineer of the Prius hybrid says.

Panasonic may begin production of battery cells at the Tesla "gigafactory" earlier than expected.

The next-generation Nissan Leaf will get a larger battery pack.

The automobile has been with us since 1885, but only over the last 50 years have governments started to face up to its ill effects on the environment. The world's major car markets have mostly now legislated increasing levels of fuel economy and reduced tailpipe emissions not only of gases directly...

California's electric-car rebate program may be caught up in politics.

Sometimes, when tucking in for the evening, you can't help but wonder: did I really make the right choice? Could I have done better? Even now, could I still do better? This is the question I ask myself, each evening, when I park my 2015 Nissan Leaf in the garage next to my wife’s 2006 Toyota...

The 2017 BMW i3 may be offered with two battery-pack options.

A Porsche product manager calls Ludicrous mode a "facade."

The Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe continue to battle for the lead in European electric-car sales.