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The sport of drag racing has been with us almost as long as the automobile has. Over the last decade, advances in high-power lithium-ion batteries have given rise to a new variant: electric drag racing. But before modern batteries existed, how could you possibly make a competitive electric dragster? DON'T MISS: Tesla P85D Destroys Dodge Challenger Hellcat On Dragstrip: Electric Car Thrashes 707-HP Hemi (Video) Well ... how about with a monstrous Allison V-12 engine, a generator, four starter motors for jet engines, and two spools of thick, high-capacity electrical cable? That's exactly what...
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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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Chrysler Conundrum: Truck Sales Mean Buying Emission-Credits From Tesla, Toyota, Honda
Chrysler bought emissions credits from Tesla, Toyota, and Honda, a new report says.
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2016 Toyota Prius, 2016 Chevy Volt Marketing, Nissan & BMW Charging Partnership: Today's Car News
The 2016 Toyota Prius makes headlines today.
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Nissan, BMW Partner To Provide More Fast-Charging For Electric Cars
Nissan and BMW claim to have add DC fast-charging stations at 120 locations in 19 states.
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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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The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid keeps and expands on all the good points of the first-generation Volt, while fixing a number of the old car's quirks. As we wrote in September, "The new Volt's a great car, and brings practical electric drive to U.S. drivers without a shred of range anxiety." But, we noted, "We just hope that Chevrolet's marketers can figure out how to tell that story soon, quickly, and persistently." DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt First Drive: Plug-In Hybrid Home Run More than a year ago, Chevrolet's global chief marketing officer, Tim Mahoney, said marketing...
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Volkswagen Hires Kenneth Feinberg To Set Payments For U.S. Diesel Owners
Volkswagen has retained an attorney to handle TDI customer claims.
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Here's What The Tesla Model X Assembly Line Looks Like
See the Tesla Model X assembly line in a new video.
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2016 Toyota Prius: Most Fuel-Efficient Car Without A Plug, Ever
It was the first hybrid car to be sold in the U.S., beating the now-legendary Toyota Prius by a few months. It was a tiny two-seater with a three-cylinder engine, spats over the rear wheel openings to reduce aerodynamic drag, and a host of highly advanced technologies for its time. It was the 2000...
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VW TDI Delay, EPA Funding Cut, Dead Hybrid Battery Question: Today's Car News
We have stories on the VW diesel scandal and environmental policy today.
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Budget Bill Cuts EPA Funding, But Keeps Clean Power Plan Intact
A new budget bill cuts EPA funding, but leaves Obama's Clean Power Plan intact.
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Hyundai is widely viewed as one of the most aggressive car companies in the world. In global industry terms, it's relatively young, having designed and sold its first car only in 1975. But the South Korean company has ambitious plans, including many on the green-car front; it wants to have the industry's second-widest array of green cars, presumably after Toyota, which sells more than two dozen hybrids globally. The 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is its third iteration on a hybrid mid-size sedan, and the Plug-In Hybrid model that accompanies it is the first for the Sonata lineup--all in the past...
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VW Gets More Time To Figure Out TDI Diesel Emission Update
The California Air Resources Board is extending a deadline to review VW's proposed emissions updates.
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Why You Should Pay Attention To 48-Volt 'Hybrids'
Mild-hybrid systems could proliferate as carmakers work to improve fuel economy, supplier Delphi says.
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Dead Hybrid Battery: What Should I Do? (Owner Question)
Every once in a while, other media outlets will ask for advice from Green Car Reports on various fuel economy or car technology questions. We recently received one concerning a 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, which the owner had left unused for several months. The car wouldn't start after that, and when...
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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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Musk On VW, Ford F-150 Hybrid, 2015 Mercedes S550e Driven: Today's Car News
Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen make headlines today.
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A Chinese environmental group is suing Volkswagen over its "defeat device" software.
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Honda Civic
It's important to understand how important a car the Honda Civic compact sedan is in the U.S. market. Between the Civic sedan and its coupe sibling, Honda sells more than 300,000 of them a year--or roughly 20 times this year's sales of the Chevy Volt. The Civic nameplate is more than 40 years old...
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Ford F-150 Hybrid Pickup Truck By 2020 Reconfirmed, But Diesel Too?
Ford's CEO says the company will launch a hybrid F-150 by 2020. Is it planning a diesel too?
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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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2017 Hyundai Ioniq, Mercedes-Benz 'ELC,' Most Fuel-Efficient Carmaker: Today's Car News
Hyundai, Mazda, and Mercedes-Benz make headlines today.
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Chevrolet Volt
The first Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car won all sorts of awards in 2011, the year it was introduced. But it didn't win that year's Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, because we deemed the world's first mass-priced high-volume battery-electric car more significant. That car, the...
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