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Penn State researchers say they've created a self-heating lithium-ion battery cell.
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Test Tracks For Elon Musk's Hyperloop: Now There Are Three!
Three companies all plan to build test tracks for Elon Musk's Hyperloop.
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Chicago Transit Authority To Add Dozens Of Electric Buses After Successful Tests
The Chicago Transit Authority will order 20 to 30 electric buses after successful tests of two vehicles.
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Ford Electric Miles, Volt Winter Test, Plug-In Hybrids In China, More VW Misery: The Week In Reverse
Which two cars are unexpectedly being killed off before their time? And, why did we grumble about the 2016 Chevy Volt after a weekend test--even though we still love the car? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 29...
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2016 Chevy Volt Review, Ford F-150 Diesel, CA Electric-Car Tax Bill: Today's Car News
Chevy and Ford make headlines today.
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VW Bites Back: Doubts Diesel Whistleblower, Says Defeat Software Legal In Europe
Another week brings more new stories on the diesel-emission cheating scandal that threatens to dig Volkswagen deeper into a ditch of its own making. Following reports in German newspapers late last week suggesting that the "defeat device" software was an "open secret" in VW's engine group, the...
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By now, it's hardly a secret that we're big fans of the redesigned second-generation Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid. We gave it our Best Car To Buy 2016 award, and we've written that it's better in pretty much every way than the innovative first-generation Volt. Last month, we were able to spend four weekend days with a 2016 Chevrolet Volt, to get a sense for what it's like to live with every day--especially in cold weather. DON'T MISS: Chevrolet Volt: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2016 Over almost 300 miles on our usual test route, roughly two-thirds highway driving and one-third city and...
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Ford F-150 Diesel May Beat Ram EcoDiesel For Fuel Efficiency: Report
Ford may target the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel with an F-150 that uses the same engine as Land Rover's Td6 SUVs.
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CA Bill Gives Tax-Free Delivery To Out-Of-State Tesla Buyers
Well, this might upset a few martini glasses at National Automobile Dealers Association social events. A bill passed by the California State Senate two days ago allows out-of-state car buyers to take delivery of their electric cars in California without paying any sales tax. The legislation was...
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Hybrid Police Cars Replacing Crown Vics: No Longer An Anomaly
Toyota claims hybrid police cars are a viable replacement for the old standard, the Ford Crown Victoria.
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The Country's Cleanest Yellow School Bus Is All-Electric
Several companies are collaborating on an all-electric school bus.
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Electric-Car Battery Energy: Why Waste It On Cabin Heating? (Video)
Among the drawbacks of cars that run on battery power is the energy required to heat their cabins. As electric-car drivers in less temperate climes know, heating the cabin to room temperature has an enormous impact on battery range--conceivably as high as 40 percent. A similar impact is seen from...
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Chrysler and Tesla make headlines today.
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Why Do West-Coast Gas Prices Differ From Rest Of U.S.?
Gasoline remains more expensive on the West Coast than the rest of the country.
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All Those Plug-In Hybrid Models? They're For China, More Than The U.S.
Between now and 2020, the three German luxury brands--Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz-- will collectively add more than a dozen plug-in hybrid models to their lineups. The goal is to offer a plug-in hybrid version for almost all of their most popular vehicles, most with U.S. range ratings of 15 to 25...
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Jeep Wrangler Diesel To Come Well Before Wrangler Hybrid
Jeep is still planning diesel and hybrid versions of the next-generation Wrangler.
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Tesla Added 50 Percent More Supercharger Sites Last Year
Tesla now has 591 Supercharger sites.
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Electric Car Price Guide, 'Greenest' Cars, 2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid: Today's Car News
We have lots of electric car news today.
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Of the three vehicles using GM's newest hybrid system, we know rather less about the 2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid than we do about either the Chevrolet Volt or the Chevy Malibu Hybrid. But with first media drives of the conventional CT6 now published, we know a bit more than we did before. For one thing, while the various gasoline versions of the CT6 large luxury sedan for the U.S. will be built at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, the plug-in hybrid CT6 will only be built in China. DON'T MISS: 2016 Cadillac CT6 First Drive (Motor Authority) That means that U.S. buyers of next year's...
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ACEEE Names 'Greenest' And 'Meanest' 2016 Cars
Measuring the energy efficiency and environmental friendliness of different vehicles is easy if they're powered by gasoline, less so when the energy comes from grid electricity. This leads to perpetual debates over the assumptions used on the source of electricity and its carbon footprint, among...
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China To Phase Out Electric-Car Subsidies By 2021, Let 'Market Decide'
China will phase out electric-car subsidies, which could open the door for more plug-in hybrids.
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VW CEO Müller: Automotive Future Must Not Be Left To Silicon Valley
Like many automakers, Volkswagen Group has had a research facility in Silicon Valley for many years. In 2011, Its Electronics Research Laboratory--first launched in 1998--tripled its size and moved northward from Palo Alto to Belmont. It now has almost 100 people. But new VW Group CEO Matthias...
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Tesla Says Autopilot Self-Driving Will 'Revolutionize Your Commute'
Tesla releases a video demonstrating its autonomous-driving features.
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Chevy Bolt EV Vs Tesla, Diesel Sales, Electric Car Sharing: Today's Car News
Electric cars and diesel cars make headlines today.
Stephen Edelstein