Green Car News
-
It stands to reason: Take all vehicles off the roads, and the air will get cleaner. But now we can answer the question, "How much?" And it turns out that the answer is, "A lot." In a new paper, A national day with near zero emissions and its effect on primary and secondary pollutants, published in Atmospheric Environment, researcher Ilan Levy looks at one naturally occurring annual test of the effect of removing all vehicles from the roads of cities. It's Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, one of the Jewish High Holy Days. On this day, essentially every resident of Israel ceases all...
-
Third National Plug-In Day & Weekend Coming Sept 28-29
For the third year in a row, plug-in cars drivers and advocates will turn out to promote electric driving and educate potential buyers.
Stephen Edelstein -
California Gets Serious About Funding Hydrogen Fueling Stations
A bill passed by the California Legislature last week will provide funding for 100 hydrogen fueling stations in the state.
Stephen Edelstein -
GM Developing Tesla Model E Rival: 200-Mile, $30,000 Electric Car?
GM's Tesla-rivaling electric car could be powered by a new type of battery with greater energy density, which would create more range without dramatically raising price.
Stephen Edelstein -
Sorting Out The Superchargers: Doing Tesla Math For Forbes
Business publisher Forbes released a piece yesterday that it couched as a rebuttal to a Green Car Reports article published last week. We reported on Tesla's efforts to install 18 new Superchargers by the summer of 2013, a goal it announced months ago. The Forbes piece claims that Tesla had met its...
David Noland -
Next Volt Engine, Diesel MPG, GM History, Is Coal Dying? Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports, we've got photos of the new--and rather nice-looking--2014 Mazda 3 sedan, news about the future of coal for generating electricity, and a look at General Motors repeating history with its newest hybrid. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We think we just got a look...
John Voelcker -
KLD Energy Technologies says its redesigned motor and battery pack will improve efficiency.
-
2014 Chevy Malibu Gas Mileage: Making Eco Mild Hybrid Irrelevant, Again?
The 2014 Chevrolet Malibu gets a new base engine, and with it come new, higher fuel-efficiency ratings from the EPA. But does the improved gas mileage mean the Malibu Eco model no longer has a reason to exist? For the new model year, Chevy made a large number of changes to the year-old vehicle...
John Voelcker -
Is The Writing On The Wall For U.S. Coal?
Stricter limits on new power plant greenhouse gas emissions and a weak export market have put the American coal industry on the ropes.
Stephen Edelstein -
2014 Mazda 3 Sedan Live Photo Gallery: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show
The all-new 2014 Mazda 3 was revealed at the end of June, but only as a five-door hatchback--the model that will be the mainstay in Japan and Europe. Now we've had our first look at the 2014 Mazda3 four-door sedan in person; it was displayed at last week's Frankfurt Auto Show. The pictures show the...
John Voelcker -
Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R Concept: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show (Video)
See the Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R, the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show concept that packs the technology from Toyota's Le Mans prototype into an everyday hatchback body, in this video.
Stephen Edelstein -
Chevy Volt's Next Range Extender: New Opel 1.0-Liter Three-Cylinder Engine?
It's been rumored for a while that the next-generation Chevy Volt electric car would get a new, smaller, three-cylinder engine as a range extender. Now we've seen what that engine could be, in the guise of a 1.0-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine unveiled by GM's German arm, Opel, at this...
John Voelcker -
At the 2013 G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, world leaders agreed to begin the process of ending oil subsidies, and to phase out HFCs.
-
2015 BMW i8, Offer For Fisker, Tesla Scrambling: This Week In Social Media
This week we noted that Tesla is scrambling to meet its self-imposed Supercharger installation deadline. Oddly enough, though, once we posted about the topic, Tesla quietly removed the "Summer 2013" section of the map from its website. Also making headlines this week is Fisker Automotive, as a...
Joel Feder -
Electric Airplanes, Electric Food Carts, Fisker Finds A Buyer: Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports, we've got news coming from everywhere. Fisker Automotive may have found itself a buyer after all, while Forbes imagines what would happen if Google bought Tesla. We've also got the GreenWing eSpyder electric aircraft plus electric food carts in New York City, proving...
Stephen Edelstein -
Could Google Buy Tesla? Should It?
Speculating on what will happen to Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] can be endlessly entertaining, and the discussions have taken up terabytes of server space already. But last week, a Forbes contributor suggested an intriguing notion: Should search giant Google buy Tesla? The conventional wisdom has been...
John Voelcker -
Reducing Emissions, One NYC Street-Vendor Cart At A Time
New York's food vendors are going electric, thanks to a pilot program that replaces generators with a connection to the grid.
Stephen Edelstein -
Coal Makes Electric Cars Bad? No, Plug-Ins Show Coal As Bad
Every so often, electric-car skeptics will attack the idea of using grid electricity to power a car by bringing up coal. "Yeah," the argument goes, "but you're just burning coal instead of gasoline in your electric car--so how's that any better?" There is, of course, a fair amount of science that...
John Voelcker -
The EPA is expanding its used car gas-mileage label tool. It now allows sellers to create a graphic for online ads.
-
Would You Pay $40,000 For An Electric...Airplane? Now You Can
GreenWing Internation is preparing to ship kits of its eSpyder electric airplane to customers in the U.S. and Europe.
Stephen Edelstein -
Plug-In Race Cars, Stalling Focus Electrics, CNG Volkswagens: Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports: The Porsche 918 Spyder and Nissan ZEOD RC take to the track, Volkswagen has big plans for electric and CNG cars, and customers say their Ford Focus Electrics are suddenly stalling.
Stephen Edelstein -
Signed Offer For Fisker Automotive Sent To Energy Department
The fate of Fisker Automotive has been hanging for months, but now an offer for the company has been "signed" and is "on the table." At least that's the word from Ingo Voigt, who with Fritz Nol is one of a pair of German investors who want to buy the company. "I am proud to tell you that we just...
John Voelcker -
Ford Focus Electric Drivers: Has Your Electric Car Suddenly Stalled?
The NHTSA has recieved reports of Ford Focus Electric cars stalling while being driven, and is investigating the matter.
Stephen Edelstein -
Plug-In Cars On Racetracks: Porsche 918 Spyder, Nissan ZEOD (Video)
Both the Porsche 918 Spyder and Nissan ZEOD RC are taking the track. The Porsche set a record lap at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, while the Nissan is set to do a demonstration at Fuji Speedway, as Nissan prepares it for the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Stephen Edelstein