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Land Rover and Tesla make headlines today.
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China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June Alone
The Chinese vehicle market is now the world's largest, and has been for a few years now. And the country's government-industrial complex has ambitious plans to dominate global production of plug-in electric vehicles, both for reasons of competitiveness and as one effort to start to reduce its...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, June 2015: Dial 'S' For Summer (UPDATED)
On July 1, Canadians celebrated the country's founding on the three principles of Peace, Order, and Good Government. The same day, electric-car advocates took heart from the announcement of a pro-plug-in policy by one of the front-runners in the country's federal election this fall. But given that...
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Diesel Vehicles Pay Back In 3-5 Years, Study Finds, Due To Lower Depreciation
Diesels have a lower cost of ownership over three to five years, a new study finds.
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2016 Range Rover Diesel Models To Carry $1,500 Premium Over Gasoline Version
Land Rover prices its two new diesel models.
Stephen Edelstein -
Russian Plutocrats Crave Tesla Model S; Electric Carmaker Resists
Tesla has quite a following in Russia.
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Kia and Tesla make headlines today.
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Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe Gets Huge Sales Incentive: UPDATE
The Honda CR-Z gets a huge incentive as sales lag.
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How To Cut Vehicle Emissions 90 Percent: Get Rid Of Human Drivers
A fleet of autonomous electric taxis could largely replace private cars, researchers argue.
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2016 Kia Soul EV To Go On Sale In Oregon, Washington; Some Dealers Get DC Quick Charging
Kia will sell its electric car in two more states.
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Higher Heavy Truck Fuel Efficiency May Be Easy, Save Huge Amounts Of Oil
Trucks can benefit from fuel-saving features already used on many cars.
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2016 Mercedes GLE550e Driven, BMW Plug-In Hybrid Prototype, Fisker Karma Update: Today's Car News
BMW, Fisker, and Mercedes-Benz make headlines today.
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Until quite recently, luxury SUVs and plugging in didn’t really go together. Yet with the introduction of the 2015 Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid, the upcoming 2016 BMW X5 xDrive40e, and soon the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE550e Plug-In Hybrid, this corner of the market has entirely changed. All three offer a modest range of around 20 miles of all-electric driving, as part of multi-mode hybrid systems that aim to provide performance that’s as quick—or quicker—than their base gasoline counterparts. ALSO SEE: Tesla Model S Owner Loyalty Probably Unparalleled In Industry In...
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New Fisker Targets Mid-2016 For U.S. Production Of Luxury Plug-In Hybrid
Fisker expects to restart production by next year.
Stephen Edelstein -
NRG eVgo Electric-Car Fast Chargers Future-Proofed To 100 KW
NRG eVgo plans to focus more on facilitating intercity electric-car driving.
Stephen Edelstein -
BMW To Add Another Plug-In Hybrid? If So, Not For U.S. Sale
BMW unveils a prototype 2 Series Active Tourer plug-in hybrid.
Stephen Edelstein -
New Stella Solar Electric Car Produces More Energy Than It Uses
Dutch students return with an updated version of their solar "family car."
Stephen Edelstein -
BMW Hydrogen Prototypes, Uber CEO Loves Tesla, U.S. Average MPG: Today's Car News
BMW and Tesla make headlines today.
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As the cost of advanced technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of vehicle travel rises, car companies have increasingly partnered to share those technologies and their costs. Now BMW has shown the first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle prototypes from its partnership of several years with Toyota, which aspires to be the global leader in fuel-cell cars just as it is today in hybrids. DON'T MISS: BMW Unveiled Not Just One, But Three Plug-In Hybrids Last Week (Dec 2014) At a media event in France, the German company showed off Toyota fuel-cell technology built into both a BMW 5-Series GT...
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Average Fuel Economy Reaches 25.4 MPG In U.S. Vehicles During First Half
June new-car average fuel economy may have been affected by SUV sales.
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BMW: Water Injection Can Boost Power And Cut Fuel Consumption
BMW demonstrates water injection as an efficiency-boosting measure on a 1-Series prototype.
Stephen Edelstein -
Uber CEO To Tesla: Sell Me Half A Million Autonomous Electric Cars In 2020
Uber is reportedly interested in Tesla autonomous-car development.
Stephen Edelstein -
Tesla Model S Range, CA Electric-Car Rebate Changes, Solar Impulse In Hawaii: Today's Car News
Electric cars and a solar-powered airplane make headlines today.
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In June: Leaf, Volt Wane After May Surge: FINAL UPDATE
New cars and trucks are selling at a blistering pace in the U.S. right now, adding to a seventh consecutive year of volume growth for the industry. But with half the year gone, sales of plug-in electric cars are in something of a holding pattern despite a surge last month, pending the launch of two...
John Voelcker