plug-in cars

Nissan and Leaf owners appear to have reached a final settlement in a lawsuit filed almost three years ago.

Over cocktails, two former Lotus colleagues met up in Irvine, California, the mecca for car design. They realized they shared a common dream: to create a next-generation electric vehicle... With a photo of a drink on a bar napkin, so begins the creation myth for Faraday Future, the secretive...

Here are the best green car deals for July 2015.

A guide to all of the available Tesla Model S versions.

Gasoline prices remain low and sales of plug-in electric cars this year are only about equal to last year's levels. That's led to a number of articles from general media outlets (some of them rather lacking in context) questioning whether electric-car sales have stalled or whether plug-in cars have...

Life is full of little ironies. And life in the 50 states that make up the United States of America is full of inconsistencies, including those among electric-car incentives from state to state. West Virginia, for instance, turns out to have offered offer a remarkably high income-tax credit of up...

Used Nissan Leaf prices are very low right now, Consumer Reports says.

Volvo will buy its performance partner Polestar, and set it to work building hot-rod plug-in hybrids.

Tesla may be planning to expand its Gigafactory before work is even completed.

It always seemed unlikely, but the BlueIndy electric-car sharing program is getting closer to its rollout in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The French-made Bollore BlueCar electric two-seaters are closer to arriving, and groups of Level 2 charging stations are popping up at curbsides...

Washington will continue to exempt electric cars from sales tax, but only if they cost less than $35,000.

An Ohio owner claims to have covered nearly 250,000 miles in his Chevy Volt.

Automotive standards--the explicitly detailed regulations that specify how a car must operate, what equipment it must or must not have, and a whole lot more--govern the design of vehicles sold around the world. And different countries and regions often have long-established standards that directly...

Factoring in likely June sales volume from Tesla and others, it's likely that about 2,500 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in Canada in the first half of 2015. This implies sales are running about level with the roughly 5,000 plug-ins sold in the country last year. With incentives in British...

Tesla Motors is head and shoulders above any other electric-car maker in providing a network of charging stations for its drivers to use during their travels. It's best known for its Supercharger DC quick-charging sites, but it also provides lower-power "destination chargers" at hotels and other...

The Chinese vehicle market is now the world's largest, and has been for a few years now. And the country's government-industrial complex has ambitious plans to dominate global production of plug-in electric vehicles, both for reasons of competitiveness and as one effort to start to reduce its...

On July 1, Canadians celebrated the country's founding on the three principles of Peace, Order, and Good Government. The same day, electric-car advocates took heart from the announcement of a pro-plug-in policy by one of the front-runners in the country's federal election this fall. But given that...

Tesla has quite a following in Russia.

Kia will sell its electric car in two more states.

Until quite recently, luxury SUVs and plugging in didn’t really go together. Yet with the introduction of the 2015 Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid, the upcoming 2016 BMW X5 xDrive40e, and soon the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE550e Plug-In Hybrid, this corner of the market has entirely changed. All three...