Bengt Halvorson, Senior Editor
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Mercedes-Benz and Geely announced on Wednesday that its fully electric city-car brand, Smart, is going Chinese.
The companies have secured the regulatory approvals to formally establish Smart as a...
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Sony electric car, Avatar-inspired Mercedes-Benz, Bollinger patents: Today’s Car NewsSony created its own electric car. Mercedes-Benz embraced science fiction while discussing a more eco-conscious battery future. And Bollinger takes a next step toward producing its heavy-duty electric trucks. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Bollinger Motors has filed for a set of patents...
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Bollinger Motors formalizes its B1 and B2 electric trucks with patent filingsAhead of the production start of its heavy-duty electric trucks next year, Bollinger has filed a set of patents covering some basic aspects of their design and engineering.
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Fisker Ocean, Lincoln Corsair plug-in hybrid, charging drama: Today’s Car NewsFisker released a price and more information on its upcoming Ocean electric SUV, though it’s still lacking some key information. We tell a tale of charging misadventures (and some lessons). And the Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring is a plug-in hybrid, but a luxury vehicle first and foremost...
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Charging the Best Car To Buy nominees: A drama in three actsKeeping our long-range electric cars fast-charged in a semi-rural test environment proved very challenging.
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Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, Corolla Hybrid are best, inside Byton and a special BMW i3: Today’s Car NewsToyota is doing good with its Corolla and RAV4 hybrids—and in the case of the RAV4, selling a lot of them. Byton says more about who’s providing content for its very large screen. BMW reworked some i3’s for limo duty. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The startup...
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The Audi E-Tron is Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020.
We can’t think of a single fully electric vehicle that fits so well into a carmaker’s lineup the way that the E-Tron...
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Toyota’s top-selling US hybrid isn’t the PriusThe Toyota RAV4 Hybrid passed the Toyota Prius family by a long shot in 2019—and that's before the introduction of the RAV4 Prime.
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BMW cranks up the swank for CES riders with i3 Urban Suite conceptA concept version of the BMW i3 urban electric car rehabs the interior into something that a chauffeur might approve of.
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Byton announces content partners for its very connected electric carsThe Byton M-Byte electric SUV will offer natural-language voice commands across apps, audio and video streaming, and a host of travel-related services.
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Why the Toyota RAV4 is the best hybrid for the US marketOur Best Car To Buy honorary mention goes to the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, which is a poster car for clean-vehicle choices and how great hybrids can be.
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Plug-in hybrids, Tesla surge, Rivian funding, Best Car To Buy: The Week in ReverseWhich plug-in hybrid offers the longest electric-only range? What’s our pick for the most influential new passenger vehicle of the past decade? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 3, 2020. Read up on our Best Car...
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Honda isn’t sounding as bullish about electric cars as it did a couple of years ago; think hybrids instead. Tesla finishes the decade on a strong note and aims globally in 2020. And BMW could...
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For the 2020s, Honda aims to favor hybrids over EVsHonda's global CEO sounds pessimistic about electric cars catching on in the mainstream auto market in the next decade.
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Tesla rings in 2020 with a global manufacturing presence, strong 2019 growthWith first deliveries made in China on a larger scale this next week, Tesla has leveled-up its manufacturing for global customers.
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Best Car To Buy winners, Car of the Decade, plug-in Jeeps: Today’s Car NewsCue that extra New Year’s confetti: We name our annual Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020. This and more, today at GCR. The Audi E-Tron is our Best Car To Buy 2020. Read why the E-Tron won, and read more about the other two finalists, the Porsche Taycan and Kia Niro EV. Rather than...
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Short sights: The plug-in hybrids with the least electric rangePlug-in hybrids can be difficult to understand in many respects. Here are five that simply don't deliver on the all-electric driving.
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Second-best: Chevy Volt is gone, so here are the plug-in hybrids with the longest rangeAs we head into 2020, here are the plug-in hybrids that go the longest on a charge without tailpipe emissions.
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Ten years ago, the Volt Dance was still fresh in our minds; Ford CEO Alan Mullaly invested more in its electric programs and said that by 2020 EVs would become more important than hybrids (and more...
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Porsche Taycan: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeAll of the Porsche Taycan models offer all-wheel drive, and all of them get close to the original concept’s 600-hp target and super-fast charging.
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Kia Niro EV: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeThe Kia Niro EV is a strong electric-car value—especially if dependable miles of range for the dollar are important.
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Audi E-Tron: Best Car To Buy 2020 nomineeThe 2019 Audi E-Tron fits in—as a well-styled, contemporary SUV, as a superb luxury vehicle, and as an Audi.
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Rivian gets $1.3B funding boost, for electric truck deliveries by late 2020Another huge investment in Rivian could help assure that the aspiring electric-truck maker makes it all the way to vehicle production in 2020.
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2019 Toyota Prius recalled over gauge-cluster issuesA manufacturing issue can lead the gauge cluster in some 2019 Prius models to short out—and black out
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