by Green Car Reports | Jan 22, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The Cruise Origin jumps ahead to a completely driverless future. Canoo starts taking names for its subscription service. And Tesla is finally good to service its vehicles in Michigan. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The California startup Canoo has opened...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 22, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Tesla’s direct sales-and-service model works beautifully in some states, while in others it’s still definitely a work in progress. Don’t blame Tesla for this one; the reason why is rooted in dealership-franchise laws—specifically, in Michigan’s case, a 2014 law that...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 22, 2020 | Automotive Technology
During the launch of the Cruise Origin driverless car, GM’s Cruise declared driving as we know it—and ride-sharing as we know it—obsolete. “This is the end of the human-driven, gasoline-powered single-occupant car, and the beginning of the future—the future beyond the...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 22, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The California-based mobility-services company Canoo has officially opened its waitlist. Canoo will be an automaker by some definitions, with a set of unique, futuristic vehicles; but it diverges from conventional automakers in nearly all other respects. Through an...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 21, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Subaru is planning a big shift toward hybrids and electric cars. VW’s targets seem far off, according to one analysis. And Tesla cries foul about unintended-acceleration claims. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. As Volkswagen’s CEO presses for more urgency in...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 21, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Last week, in a speech to executives in Germany, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was critical about the automaker’s pace so far toward electric vehicles. Diess underscored, according to the Financial Times, that shifting to electric vehicles would require “a radical...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 21, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Outdoorsy, crunchy, and active are surely among the descriptors that Subaru has carefully cultivated into its brand identity and owner base over the years. And while those sound like an ideal jumping point for going electric, Subaru still needs to assure its loyal...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 20, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Tesla said Monday that claims that its cars could suddenly accelerate without warning are without merit and were made by a profit-seeking investor. “This petition is completely false and was brought by a Tesla short-seller,” the company wrote on its...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 20, 2020 | Automotive Technology
New Jersey is going electric, with a $5,000 vehicle incentive and a comprehensive plan. Audi’s latest plug-in hybrids arrive soon and supplement its EVs in the lineup. And Volvo is planning to make electric SUVs and their battery packs in South Carolina. This and...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 20, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Audi is wholly embracing vehicles that plug-in. While that includes fully electric vehicles like the E-tron SUV, or the E-Tron GT performance car and Q4 E-Tron compact SUV that are both due to go on sale by early next year, plug-in hybrids are part of that push, too....
by Green Car Reports | Jan 20, 2020 | Automotive Technology
New Jersey made a big move last week to back up its Garden State motto, with one of the greenest state plans for encouraging electric vehicles in the nation. The legislation, passed last Monday and then signed by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy on Friday, Under it, a...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 20, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston. Now Volvo has confirmed a battery...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 19, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The larger-scale electrification of big, task-oriented municipal vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and even dump trucks is bound to happen eventually. Sometimes, the bluntest, heaviest tool for the job really isn’t the best one for the task anyway. And a startup...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 18, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Why did our power grid get cleaner than expected in 2019? How is it that Teslas will talk? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 17, 2020. Fresh off the U.S. debut of the Nissan Ariya concept, in Las...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 17, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Tesla’s potentially facing an unintended-acceleration investigation. Kia plans for many more electric vehicles. And the Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid returns, but only to California. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The federal government says that it will...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 17, 2020 | Automotive Technology
An estimated 500,000 Tesla vehicles pose the risk of exhibiting sudden unintended acceleration, according to Reuters, and a petition filed to NHTSA on behalf of Tesla owners. If the petition is approved, NHTSA will investigate the widespread claims across...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 17, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Hyundai’s Kia Motors unit is in many respects a separate automaker from Hyundai, with its own design and manufacturing facilities. Now, Kia is getting specific about its goals for going electric. With an announcement Wednesday, coinciding with an investor day, Kia...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 17, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The often-overlooked Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid is the closest thing on the market to the discontinued (and much-loved) Chevrolet Volt. Although a bit quirky-looking, the Clarity is more spacious and comfortable than the Volt ever was, and it remains the plug-in...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 16, 2020 | Automotive Technology
VW diesel settlement funds are putting more electric school buses into service. Porsche’s Taycan Turbo S gets a sub-200-mile range rating. And Nissan’s top design executive talks electric-vehicle platform-sharing among the automaker’s alliance brands. This and more,...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 16, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Nissan hasn’t launched a completely new dedicated electric vehicle in nearly 10 years. That’s all set to change soon with the introduction of not just one or two new EVs, but an entire new family of them—and potentially, by the middle of the decade, more than a dozen...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 16, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Of all the kinds of vehicles that can be made electric, school buses sure make a lot of sense. Electric school buses have fewer maintenance needs and no noise pollution. And they curb diesel emissions—including fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and carbon...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 16, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Last month, results posted for the Porsche Taycan Turbo confirmed an EPA range of just 201 miles. Earlier this week, the EPA posted numbers for the higher-performance Taycan Turbo S, and it achieved an even lower number: 192 miles. That’s a 4.5-percent drop versus the...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 15, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Coal plants closed and electric cars got greener. Honda looks to trucks for its fuel-cell technology. And the Lucid Air has a debut date. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With a passenger-car hydrogen infrastructure moving slowly but development on hydrogen...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 15, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Lucid has announced that a formal introduction for its Air electric luxury sedan will be held in April—perhaps coinciding with the New York Auto Show. It’s also opened reservations for the Air, which is due for deliveries by very early next year. For $1,000, you get a...
by Green Car Reports | Jan 15, 2020 | Automotive Technology
One campaign pledge the Trump administration hasn’t been able to keep, as of yet, is the revival of the U.S. coal industry. U.S. coal power plants shut down at their second-fastest rate ever in 2019, according to new data from Thomson Reuters and the federal...
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