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Eco-activists often indict air travel as a carbon-spewing threat to the global climate. Worldwide, commercial jets pour an estimated 700 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, leading to headlines like this one in The New York Times not long ago: “Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel.” But it turns out that air travel’s notoriety as a most-wanted carbon criminal is a bum rap. DON'T MISS: Air Travel Gets Greener: Biofuel Route Opens Between NYC & Netherlands (Mar 2013) Passenger jets are in fact significantly more efficient than automobiles, if...
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When Electric-Car Drivers Learn How Gas Cars Work: Video
A Swedish video shows an electric-car driver experiencing internal combustion for the first time.
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Toyota Prius
The Toyota Prius hybrid occupies a special niche in automotive history. It's the world's best-known and best-selling hybrid car, and it's the halo vehicle for one of the world's three largest automakers. This year, there's an all-new 2016 Prius, and it's quite a different car from its predecessors...
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Musk On VW Diesels, Best Car To Buy Nominees, Bad Electric-Car Dealer: The Week In Reverse (Video)
Which iconic Sixties vehicle may be reborn as all-electric family transport? And, why does Tesla CEO Elon Musk think VW shouldn't bother to fix its cheating diesels? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, December 18...
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Ignore VW Diesels, Make Company Sell Electric Cars: Tesla CEO Musk, 44 Others
It will cost a huge sum, likely billions of dollars, to make Volkswagen fix all of the 482,000 TDI diesel vehicles it has admitted use "defeat device" software to ignore emission laws. Indeed, it may not be practically possible for VW to modify 325,000 of those cars--and it would cost the company...
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More 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Sketches Before Hybrid, Electric Cars Debut
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq will debut in January.
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As promised, we'll be announcing our nominees for the Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy award this week. But first, it's time note all those candidates that didn't make the final cut. This year, we're explaining why each one isn't on the final nominees list. Remember, to qualify for consideration, a car must be all-new or substantially updated from the previous model year, it must be available for purchase in North America by next April, and at least one High Gear Media editor--preferably several--must have driven and reviewed it by December 1. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports Best Car To...
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Prius Vs Volt Video, Tesla Reliability, Mercedes On Electric Cars: The Week In Reverse (Video)
Who answered questions from French university students about renewable energy and the climate--and gave us our longest article ever? And, how long does Mercedes-Benz think it will be before long-range electric cars are both desirable and profitable? This is our video look back at the Week In...
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Updated 2017 Ford Focus Electric: 100-Mile Range, DC Fast Charging
When it was launched for 2012, the Ford Focus Electric hatchback was more or less competitive at 76 miles of range. Its major competitor, the Nissan Leaf, had 73 miles of range (increased for 2013 and later years to 84 miles). But times have changed, and in the face of increased electric range from...
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Two-Thirds of Earliest Tesla Drivetrains To Need Replacement In 60,000 Miles, Owner Data Suggests
With almost 100,000 on the world's roads, the Tesla Model S electric car is a remarkable achievement. It remains the longest-range electric car in volume production more than three years after it launched. But reliability issues with electric traction motors in early cars--those from the 2012 and...
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Elon Musk On Climate: Tax Carbon Appropriately, Tesla Founder Says (Full Transcript, Video)
The COP21 climate summit in Paris is now in its second week. Presentations, conferences, trade shows, and probably thousands of individual meetings are being held among attendees from almost all the countries of the world. Last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk spoke to a group of college students...
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CO State Group Deal On 2015 Nissan Leaf Electric Cars Cuts $9,000 From Price: UPDATED
For the rest of the year, consumers in the northern part of Colorado state can take advantage of a remarkable discount on the world's best-selling electric car. Through December 31, the dealership Tynan's Nissan is offering $9,007 off the retail price of a 2015 Nissan Leaf with an 84-mile range...
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They're both green-car leaders--in the public eye and in EPA energy-efficiency ratings. But the new 2016 Toyota Prius and 2016 Chevrolet Volt take very different approaches to delivering that efficiency. The newest Prius is the latest generation of the world's best-known, and best-selling, hybrid car. It's lower and less slab-sided than the last one. It's still a five-door hatchback, but now it has a lower nose, a floating roof, and a rear end that may not be to everyone's taste. It makes the previous car look sedate. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Prius: First Drive Of 56-MPG Hybrid Inside, the...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Car Spied Before 2016 CES Reveal
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will appear in production-ready form at CES, a new report says.
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Custom Tesla Model X Thanks Company's Veterans, Model S Too
Seeing a Tesla Model X electric SUV on the roads at all is still a rare occurrence; seeing one in flat black is even rarer. That's because there's only one that looks like the Model X in these photos, snapped at a Supercharger site 10 days ago by our Tesla-owning author George Parrott. After...
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Volkswagen Proposes 2.0-Liter Diesel Fixes As Crisis Continues
Being a Volkswagen executive these days may be one of the more thankless jobs in the auto industry. Among groups including car buyers, business travelers, and environmental advocates, the first association with the brand now is often now "diesel emission scandal.” But differing customer...
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VW Diesel Software Cheats On European Emission Limits Too, BBC Test Shows
A BBC tests shows that Volkswagen "defeat device" software cheats on European emissions tests.
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Chevy Bolt At CES, 2016 Toyota Prius Driven, EV Cord-Cutting: The Week In Reverse (Video)
GM's all-electric car Bolts to Vegas, we drive the new Prius and a plug-in hybrid Audi SUV, and look at EV cord-cutting. This is The Week In Reverse, for Friday, November 20, 2015, right here at Green Car Reports. We’re counting down the weeks until we get more details about the production...
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It was an audacious statement, but there it was. Audi expects that 25 percent of the cars it sells just 10 years hence will be either battery-electric or plug-in hybrid models. And it came directly from Scott Keogh, president of Audi of America, in front of a packed media audience at the Los Angeles Auto Show. DON'T MISS: Audi e-Tron Electric Car To Offer 150-kW Quick Charging Sites Audi sold 1.7 million cars globally in 2014, of which 182,000 went to U.S. buyers. Assuming at least 2 million vehicles by then, that means the company would sell half a million electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles...
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2016 Toyota Prius: First Drive Of 56-MPG Hybrid
When a Toyota Prius drive event comes with a handling course, you know that things have changed. And in some ways, the all-new 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid is a very different car from the three generations of Prius that preceded it. Perhaps the main difference is simply that it drives, handles, and...
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Audi e-Tron Electric Car To Offer 150-kW Quick Charging Sites
It’s increasingly clear that the German prestige brands plan to launch luxury electric cars that will go head-to-head with upstart Tesla Motors and its Model S and Model X. But a sexy, fast, comfortable, luxurious electric car will not be enough to compete effectively. The German brands must...
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Life With Tesla Model S: Thoughts On '10 Things I Hate' Article (Really Only Seven)
It was a classic click-bait headline: “Ten Things I Hate About My Tesla.” The article appeared last week on The Drive, a new "automotive culture" website from publisher Time Inc. The author, Andy Blau, owns a green Tesla Model S and spends a lot of time driving on New Jersey’s...
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Life With Tesla Model S: Service Centers Get Crowded, Cost More
One of the coolest things about owning a Tesla Model S for almost three years now has been the service. When first revealed back in the spring of 2013—a few months after I had taken delivery of my car—the Tesla service model sounded almost too good to be true. If a problem occurred, CEO...
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Audi e-Tron Drive, Nissan's Big Battery, VW Weirdness, Doomed Tesla: The Week In Reverse (Video)
Who thinks Tesla Motors is "doomed"? And, while we liked driving the Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid, why was our verdict: "Good first effort, but should try harder"? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, November 6, 2015...
John Voelcker