The 2020 Nissan Leaf adds more value at the base level of its lineup. More consumers are interested in electric cars, while interest in autonomous tech might be fading. And what’s the Best Hybrid To Buy? This and more, today at Green Car Reports. According to a major global study released earlier this week by the consulting firm Deloitte... EVs hot, AVs not; Best Hybrid To Buy; 2020 Nissan Leaf: Today’s Car News
The 2020 Nissan Leaf adds more value at the base level of its lineup. More consumers are interested in electric cars, while interest in autonomous tech might be fading. And what’s the Best Hybrid To Buy? This and more, today at Green Car Reports. According to a major global study released earlier this week by the consulting firm Deloitte... 
Here in the U.S., automakers are making huge investments in research and development for advanced vehicle features and autonomous technology, while several automakers—Toyota, for instance, and recently Honda—are being cautious about investing in an electric-car future. The 2020 Global Automotive Consumer Study, from the consulting firm... 
Audio systems could be a bit different for electric vehicles. Smart is moving to China. And what’s the best electric car to buy? This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Mercedes-Benz and Geely have formed a joint venture to effectively move its Smart electric city-car brand to China, with plans for expansion. The brand already withdrew... 
Range numbers aren’t just a deterrent for electric-car ownership; they’re a source of anxiety for automakers developing EVs. As evidenced by a growing subset of displays at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, suppliers are betting automakers will be interested in anything that could potentially add a mile or more of real-world... 
Mercedes-Benz and Geely announced on Wednesday that its fully electric city-car brand, Smart, is going Chinese. The companies have secured the regulatory approvals to formally establish Smart as a global joint venture based in Hangzhou Bay, Ningbo, and will have sales organizations in China and Germany. Mercedes parent company Daimler, and Geely... 
Sony created its own electric car. Mercedes-Benz embraced science fiction while discussing a more eco-conscious battery future. And Bollinger takes a next step toward producing its heavy-duty electric trucks. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Bollinger Motors has filed for a set of patents applying to the engineering and layout of its... 
Bollinger Motors announced Wednesday that it has filed for patent protection for its electric trucks, as the company moves toward expected announcements of the models’ production location and partner company. The filings include mechanical and electrical architecture of the vehicles, the electric drivetrain, its modes of operation and... 
Fisker released a price and more information on its upcoming Ocean electric SUV, though it’s still lacking some key information. We tell a tale of charging misadventures (and some lessons). And the Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring is a plug-in hybrid, but a luxury vehicle first and foremost. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Testing... 
East Ellijay, Georgia, might be considered part of the outermost exurbs north of metro Atlanta, or a gateway to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where in October Internet Brands Automotive editors rounded up the cohort of Best Car To Buy nominees for Green Car Reports, Motor Authority, and The Car Connection. A charging station there was... 
Toyota is doing good with its Corolla and RAV4 hybrids—and in the case of the RAV4, selling a lot of them. Byton says more about who’s providing content for its very large screen. BMW reworked some i3’s for limo duty. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The startup automaker Byton has revealed more about what kind of... 
The top-selling Toyota hybrid vehicle in the U.S. over the past year wasn’t part of the Prius family—or, technically, a passenger car. In 2019, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid wins that crown. According to Toyota’s 2019 year-end sales summary, released Friday, Toyota sold 92,525 RAV4 Hybrid SUVs to U.S. buyers in 2019, versus just 69,718... 
Americans especially can get stuck in a bigger-is-better mentality—and services like Uber Black, which tends to equate larger vehicles with greater luxury, don’t help in any green gains claimed by such services. Seemingly in reaction to this, BMW is using this week’s CES 2020 in Las Vegas to make the point that compact and... 
Just two years ago at CES, Byton revealed the M-Byte, a sleek, fully electric SUV that drew a whole lot of attention at the show especially for two reasons: its jaw-dropping 48-inch Shared Experience Display that spanned the full width of the dash, and its projected $45k starting price. To the first point, Byton is bringing that screen to... 
Sometimes the market speaks decisively about what it wants, and we can make a tremendous impact by simply playing matchmaker rather than pushing back. That’s how we’d sum our feelings about the RAV4 Hybrid Limited we had at our annual Best Car To Buy roundup this past fall. It made such a strong case for itself, with an EPA-rated... 
Which plug-in hybrid offers the longest electric-only range? What’s our pick for the most influential new passenger vehicle of the past decade? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 3, 2020. Read up on our Best Car To Buy finalists, the Audi E-Tron, Kia Niro EV... 
Honda isn’t sounding as bullish about electric cars as it did a couple of years ago; think hybrids instead. Tesla finishes the decade on a strong note and aims globally in 2020. And BMW could be working on an electric flagship sedan to rival the Model S and Audi E-Tron GT. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Tesla enters a new year... 
Honda has said that it wants electrified vehicles to make up two-thirds of its global sales by 2030. That goal is nothing new; it was announced back in 2016. What is new is that Honda plans to emphasize hybrids (and perhaps plug-in hybrids) over electric vehicles, well into the next decade. Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo, in a recent interview with... 
Although many who follow the growth of electric cars eagerly await the release of Tesla’s fourth-quarter and annual delivery numbers for 2019, the Tesla of 2020 and beyond is a truly global manufacturer. Tesla confirmed that it delivered its first 15 Chinese-made Tesla Model 3 sedans Monday—to Tesla employees. Tesla also told Reuters... 
