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Emissions from manufacturing are higher for battery-electric cars than they are for gasoline cars, a UCS study finds.
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Will Tighter CAFE Rules Bring More Trucks, Fewer Small Cars?
The entire auto industry was startled when Fiat Chrysler said two weeks ago it would end production of its Dodge Dart compact car and its Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan. The company intends to use the plant capacity freed up to build more light trucks, meaning its popular crossover utilities and...
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GM Willing To Sell Chevy Volt's Plug-In Hybrid Powertrain To Other Makers
The biggest challenge in introducing new technologies is getting to the volume production that permits economies of scale for expensive components. Toyota is now nearing 9 million hybrids produced, over almost 20 years--but it builds 10 million cars a year. General Motors, on the other hand, has...
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First-Ever Emissions Rules For Airplanes Proposed By U.N.
The U.N.'s aviation agency drafted the first-ever emissions rules for airplanes.
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Valentine Extravaganza: Red Roses In Maroon Tesla Model S (With Disclaimers)
A flower retailer comes up with a creative use for Tesla's "Summon" feature.
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Georgia Electric-Car Fee, Diesel Trucks, Oil Prices: Today's Car News
We have news on electric cars and diesel trucks today.
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For a couple of years, Georgia offered an example to the rest of the nation on how a seemingly unlikely state could boost electric-car sales. Then it all came crashing down. Last spring, opponents of the state's generous $5,000 income-tax credit for purchase of a zero-emission vehicle killed off the incentive, in effect since 1998. DON'T MISS: Georgia Electric-Car Sales Plummet After Incentive Replaced By Tax (Nov 2015) It was replaced by a $200 annual registration fee for electric cars--more than the state gasoline tax paid by a 25-mpg gasoline vehicle driven 15,000 miles a year...
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Cheap Oil Will Last A Decade, Says Huge Oil Trader
Oil prices won't increase much over the next decade, one oil trader predicts.
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LG Chem's Large Battery Plant In China Took Less Than 2 Years
LG Chem works to ramp up production at a China battery plant.
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Diesels Still Needed For Truck Fuel Economy Despite VW Scandal: Advocate
Allen Schaeffer probably doesn't have the easiest job these days. He's executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of diesel engines, fuel, and technology. With the Volkswagen diesel-emission scandal soon to enter...
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Tesla Model X European Buyers Will Have To Wait For Chinese
Tesla Model X deliveries in China will apparently start before Europe.
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Bentley Electric Car, Cadillac ELR Axed, California Electric-Car Sales: Today's Car News
We have lots of electric car news today.
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The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set prices unilaterally. Still, we hear less about the supposed phenomenon of "Peak Oil" than we did a few years ago. DON'T MISS: Big Oil To 'Lose Control Of Auto Industry': Energy Conference And while energy investors have severely punished coal-company stocks, on widespread worries that much of their...
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Cadillac ELR Is Walking Dead (But May Be Great, Rare Used Car)
You almost have to pity the Cadillac ELR range-extended electric coupe: It's a very pretty car with luxurious appointments, but no one wants to buy it. And if the rumors that now-departed General Motors CEO Dan Akerson personally set its initial price at $75,000 are true, you have to wonder how it...
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EU Commission Accepts 'Flawed' Emission Rules For On-Road Testing
New European emissions-testing rules would allow carmakers to exceed legal limits of nitrogen oxides.
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How Many Electric Cars Does California Buy? One-Third To One-Half Of All Of 'Em
About 55 percent of U.S. plug-in car sales in January were in California, according to the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative.
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Bentley To Be Fourth VW Group Brand To Offer Electric Car
If an electric Audi is good, then an electric Audi plus an electric Volkswagen plus an electric Porsche plus an electric Bentley must be better, yes? At least, that would seem to be the thinking at VW Group, which over the last six months has announced plans for the first three brands to launch...
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Haptic-Feedback Gas Pedal Tells Drivers When To Shift To Save Fuel
Bosch claims its "active gas pedal" can yield fuel-economy savings of up to seven percent.
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Which large factory hasn't quite lived up to its projections for jobs or investment as yet? And, what do we see as the biggest electric-car trends between now and 2020? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, February 5, 2016. Friday was just two days before Super Bowl Sunday, and we wrote about an unlikely car that will be advertised during the event that will transfix large portions of North America. That would be the all-new 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid, which its maker will advertise under the slogan, "Heck on Wheels." OK...
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Obama Oil Tax, Electric-Car Charging Costs, Tesla Gigafactory: Today's Car News
We've got lots of policy news today.
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Obama Proposes $10 Per Barrel Tax On Oil To Fund U.S. Transportation Needs
You have to give the man credit for vision. U.S. president Barack Obama will propose a tax of $10 per barrel on oil in the 2017 budget he will submit to Congress next week. According to the White House, its goal is to create "a clear incentive for private-sector innovation to reduce our reliance on...
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Tesla Gigafactory Jobs, Investments Fell Short Of Projections Last Year
Job growth and capital investments in the Tesla "Gigafactory" project aren't meeting projections, Nevada officials say.
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2016 Toyota Prius Hybrid Is 'Heck On Wheels' In Super Bowl TV Ad
The 2016 Toyota Prius appears in a Super Bowl TV ad.
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Should Utility Customers Pay For Electric-Car Charging Stations They Don't Use?
California is by far the most advanced state in adopting plug-in electric cars. Fully 45.3 percent of the country's more than 400,000 plug-in cars were sold in California, according to data from the state's Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative. But electric cars need public charging stations...
John Voelcker