by Green Car Reports | Jul 3, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Jaguar Land Rover’s involvement in hydrogen fuel-cell development goes well beyond backroom tinkering. In a media Q&A following a company update Friday, Jaguar Land Rover’s executive director of product engineering, Nick Rogers, clarified the project reported...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 2, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Hyundai reveals more about the Santa Fe plug-in hybrid. Ford explains why it’s now rating batteries by usable capacity. And Tesla managed to defy expectations with Q2 deliveries. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Tesla is reportedly scaling down plans for its...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 2, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Tesla delivered more vehicles in the second quarter of 2020 than it did in the first quarter of the year, despite other automakers’ reports of deliveries down by 30% or more. Yes, we’re talking about the second quarter of 2020—when the coronavirus pandemic...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 2, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Ford announced the opening of its order banks for the 2021 Mustang Mach-E electric SUV Wednesday. With that, Ford released adjusted power and torque specs for the Mach-E—reflecting a 3% to 4% boost in rated power over previous preliminary estimates. But in the...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 2, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The next-generation Hyundai Santa Fe will get a plug-in hybrid powertrain, the first time one has been offered in Hyundai’s mid-size family crossover. The model is likely to be sold in the United States, but Hyundai has only released specifications for the...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 2, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Tesla’s planned Giga Berlin factory may soon get downgraded to Mega Berlin. The automaker is scaling down the German factory, pulling back from plans to manufacture batteries onsite, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing revised planning documents for the...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 1, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Lucid claims to be ahead of the pack in aerodynamics with its appropriately named Air. A clean-energy plan presented on Capitol Hill aims to end sales of new internal-combustion cars by 2035. And we have first drive impressions of the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime. This and...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 1, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Congressional Democrats unveiled a new clean energy action plan Tuesday that would emphasize electric cars, but it steps back from some aspects of the previous Green New Deal plan. Dubbed the Climate Crisis Action Plan, it includes a provision that would end sales of...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 1, 2020 | Automotive Technology
It’s appropriate that a car named Air produced good results in the wind tunnel. Lucid Motors says its upcoming electric car will be the world’s most aerodynamically efficient luxury car when it goes into production later this year. The Air achieved a drag...
by Green Car Reports | Jul 1, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Right about the time I’d passed 30 miles of all-electric driving with the RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid, I knew this experience was going to be different. There was plenty of charge left. With an expected EPA-rated 42-mile range from a big 18.1-kwh battery pack, the RAV4...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The long-anticipated Nissan electric crossover nears its debut. Jaguar Land Rover is working on a fuel-cell SUV. And would you send $5,000 to a company that hasn’t yet delivered a product? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Nikola Motor Company is taking $5,000...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Nissan will reveal the production version of its long-awaited electric crossover based on the Ariya Concept on July 15 in Yokohama, Nissan confirmed Monday at its global automaker’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Although Nissan USA confirmed the date of the debut to...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Jaguar Land Rover may shift its zero-emission vehicle strategy somewhat if a hydrogen fuel-cell SUV reportedly under development has any chance of making it to production. The automaker will receive UK government funding to develop a prototype called...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 30, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The Nikola Badger has only been shown to the public as a handful of renderings, but the company is taking $5,000 pre-orders for the electric pickup truck. Nikola plans to fully reveal the truck at its Nikola World 2020 event December 3-5. Nikola has shown prototype...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 29, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The upcoming Cadillac Lyriq EV will spark a new look for the GM luxury brand. A UK company shows us its minimalist style translated to buses. And Porsche reveals the base-model Taycan. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. GM has teased some of the design details...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 29, 2020 | Automotive Technology
In China on Monday, Porsche revealed the first details for a version of the Taycan electric car it hasn’t officially shown anywhere else in the world: a rear-wheel-drive, single-motor version. As with the Taycan 4S, the base model offers a choice between a 79.2-kwh...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 29, 2020 | Automotive Technology
An electric bus is the latest in what the UK-based Arrival calls an “ecosystem” that will also include electric ride-sharing cars, taxis, delivery vans, and charging infrastructure. Sporting the same minimalist design as Arrival’s recently-unveiled...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 29, 2020 | Automotive Technology
General Motors has set a new debut date for the reveal of the first fully electric vehicle from its Cadillac luxury brand. On August 6 the automaker will hold a “virtual debut” event that’s likely to release pictures of the production-bound concept as well as some...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 28, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Owning a classic car doesn’t have to involve tailpipe emissions, or the high repair bills that often come with vintage gasoline engines. U.K.-based Lunaz offers electric conversions of classic from Jaguar, Bentley, and Rolls-Royce. Lunaz is currently taking...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Which carmaker ranked last in a leading study of new-vehicle quality? Why is it that one company plans to use battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell technologies together? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 27, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The eagerly anticipated premiere event for the Lordstown Endurance electric pickup prototype held Thursday revealed very little new information about the product. Instead, the event included an aspect that Silicon Valley—or Detroit, usually—likes to keep out of its...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
The Ford F-150 Hybrid is out, and it doesn’t appear to go for the gold in gas mileage. Mercedes-Benz has a new partner to help make its cars perpetually upgradable machines. And California is mandating that commercial trucks go electric. This and more, here at Green...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
California has made significant progress in reducing emissions with a zero-emission vehicle mandate for passenger cars, which requires the largest-volume automakers to sell battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Now the Golden State aims to tackle commercial...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia are partnering to develop a new computing architecture for future cars. Launching in 2024, this will allow Tesla-style over-the-air (OTA) software upgrades and pave the way for autonomous driving, Mercedes said in a press release Tuesday. In...
by Green Car Reports | Jun 26, 2020 | Automotive Technology
With the release of tech details for the long-awaited 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid—and the rest of a redesigned lineup of F-150 trucks Thursday—Ford has passively sketched out much about its future for electrified trucks. And that includes the F-Series Electric that’s due...
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