by Green Car Reports | Mar 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe. And will an activist strategy about oil stoke interest in Aptera? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A study from...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
As gas prices plummet toward the $2-per-gallon mark on a national level—with some regions already reporting $1 gas—forecasts are suggesting the bargain pump prices will last at least through the summer. The cheap gas, at a national-average $2.01 as of Monday morning,...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Is it a good idea to market an efficiency-focused car around oil dependence when national-average gas prices are headed toward $2.00 a gallon? A video recently last Tuesday by Aptera takes exactly that angle—introducing the company’s electric three-wheeler in light of...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
A new study confirms what electric car drivers already know: that EVs are cleaner than gasoline cars, even when emissions from electricity generation are factored in. Electric cars are in fact cleaner than gasoline cars in 95% of the world, according to a joint study...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 29, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Trains are about to go electric. Battery-electric, that is. While electrical propulsion has been the preferred way to move trains for most of a century, the idea of moving them longer distances via battery is one that’s just now being realized. Like long-range...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 28, 2020 | Automotive Technology
What carmaker is planning to make the next-generation version of its top-selling model all-electric? What new home device might make the Nissan Leaf a little greener? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Pickups haven’t become more fuel-efficient at the rate of other vehicles. Storing electric vehicles requires being thoughtful about the battery. And the 3-Series plug-in hybrid is back. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. BMW’s has rolled out a new plug-in...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Many EV commuters are suddenly affected by orders to stay at home and, if possible, to work from home. With the electric car parked for extended times, what’s the best strategy for not damaging the battery? The general advice hasn’t changed much over the...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Nearly all vehicle types now achieve more than double the gas mileage that they achieved in 1975, when the EPA started compiling trends for vehicle emissions and fuel economy. All except pickups, that is. While the U.S. fleet of new vehicles has been becoming more...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The 2021 BMW 3-Series plug-in hybrid gets a redesign, migrating to the G20-generation 3-Series platform and gaining more electric range in the process. BMW will offer the plug-in hybrid sedan, which was first announced in 2019, in both rear-wheel drive 330e and...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Honda has the sedan with the highest city gas mileage. The Nissan Leaf is about to become more useful—as a home energy device. And Toyota is partnering to make more hydrogen fuel-cell semis. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Provided you’re not ready to...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
In the wake of Japan’s 2011 earthquakes, Nissan was particularly proud of the ability set its new Leaf electric car was given from the start, and how it could be utilized—to keep the lights on in an office building for a short time, or power a home for a full day, or...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The 2021 Honda Insight hybrid enters the new model year with minor changes, including more safety tech. Gas mileage ratings remain unchanged, at 52 mpg combined (55 mpg city, 49 mpg highway) for all trim levels except the top-level Touring, which is rated at a...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Toyota has advocated for the use of hydrogen fuel cells in commercial trucks as well as passenger cars, and appears to be stepping up those efforts. The Japanese automaker will work with its Hino commercial-vehicle subsidiary to develop a fuel-cell heavy-duty truck....
by Green Car Reports | Mar 25, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Magna shows what it can do with EVs with a prototype I-Pace, and we drove it. Mercedes-Benz has an electric van on the way. And yes, the pandemic is reducing transportation air pollution. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The current shutdowns over coronavirus...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 25, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Scalable and modular has been the future for top-tier automotive suppliers like Magna for the better part of this century so far. But in the march toward electric cars, those resourceful suppliers are acutely aware that it takes more than that to get automakers...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 25, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The unprecedented social distancing measures put in place by many countries to slow the spread of coronavirus have already produced a measurable effect in one important area—emissions. The slowdown of human activity in many of the world’s most populous, most...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 25, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Ahead of a planned European market launch later this year, Mercedes-Benz decided to show off the cold-weather performance of its EQV electric van. Engineers spent several weeks testing the EQV in Arjeplog, Sweden, a town inside the Arctic Circle that is popular with...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 24, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Jaguar Land Rover plans some larger electric SUVs. Volkswagen is teasing us again with a Microbus conversion—this time, one you might potentially be able to buy. And the Polestar 2 is now being made in China and mostly on schedule. This and more, here at Green Car...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 24, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Volkswagen plans to launch a new electric vehicle inspired by the classic Microbus, but in the meantime the automaker has partnered with eClassics on an electric conversion of the original. The two companies previously teamed up on an electric Beetle conversion, which...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 24, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The coronavirus threat itself, and perhaps the economic fallout that lingers, will likely affect the rollout schedule—or perhaps even the production viability—for some of the electric cars we were looking forward to this year or next. The electric-car brand from Volvo...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 24, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Jaguar Land Rover plans to convert a United Kingdom factory to produce three new electric models, including the already-confirmed XJ sedan and two SUVs, according to Autocar. The automaker announced in 2019 that the Castle Bromwich factory will transition from...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 23, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Charging connectors make sense on lampposts, as shown in a UK project. Hybrids make up a larger percentage of Fiat Chrysler sales, and yet it has the lowest average mpg. And Porsche re-ups its intent to electrify its top-selling model. This and more, today at Green...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 23, 2020 | Automotive Technology
In 2019, Fiat Chrysler sold a higher percentage of hybrid vehicles—of its total U.S. sales—than Toyota. And yet for the eighth straight year, FCA is anticipated to post the lowest U.S. fleet fuel economy among vehicle makers. That comes from the 2019 EPA Automotive...
by Green Car Reports | Mar 23, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The great thing about electric-car charging is that it can take advantage of existing grid infrastructure. A new project in the United Kingdom demonstrates the benefits of that. Siemens built charging stations into 24 lampposts on roughly a half-mile of Sutherland...
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