The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell gets some minor changes for 2020. The electric Mini Cooper is ready for reservations in the U.S. Polestar says that its upcoming fully electric car is good for towing. And there’s a new speed record for street-legal EVs. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Cold-weather operation has been improved in the... Electric Mini Cooper, Polestar 2 towing, Clarity Fuel Cell improvements: Today’s Car News
The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell gets some minor changes for 2020. The electric Mini Cooper is ready for reservations in the U.S. Polestar says that its upcoming fully electric car is good for towing. And there’s a new speed record for street-legal EVs. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Cold-weather operation has been improved in the... 
The Polestar 2 electric crossover may be one of the first compact electric cars to be rated for towing any significant amount. Polestar announced a 3,300-pound tow rating for the upcoming model Wednesday, along with an optional power-folding towbar for flexibility. The company confirmed to Green Car Reports that U.S. versions of the Polestar 2... 
Mini USA has opened the order banks for the 2020 Mini Cooper SE, the brand’s first electric car in many years, a revival of the formula that earned a lot of enthusiasm a decade ago in the Mini E, and its first to be mass-produced. The Mini Cooper SE is “based on, and dimensionally almost identical” to the Mini Hardtop 2-door... 
The cold-weather startup performance of the 2020 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell has been improved. If this feels like a low-priority item for a California car (with limited availability in Japan, too), let the irony fall like snowflakes: This piece of fuel-cell refinement was likely partly in preparation for a now-cancelled network of Air Liquide fueling... 
A new Electrify America partnership means you might not have to wade through a big-box parking lot to find a very fast road-trip charger. Ford confirms its electric F-150 and its battery will be made in Michigan. We look at what didn’t quite make our Best Car To Buy contenders list. And how speedy will electric Minis get? This and more... 
Change comes, but not always in the ways you expect it. That’s a lesson that burbles up from the depths of the mainstream vehicle market when we look at the types of green cars we expected by the end of the decade, and what we actually got. With each model year, despite the faster-than-expected gains in the affordability of lithium-ion... 
In November the United Auto Workers ratified a four-year contract with Ford—one that included an agreement to invest more than $6 billion in U.S. plants and, as was reported then, included plans to keep high-visibility electrification plans for the F-150 in Michigan. Tuesday, Ford made good on that plan for its Michigan plants, confirming... 
Up until now, most of the high-power DC fast chargers that Electrify America has installed for electric-car drivers have been at Walmart stores and big shopping centers. But soon the charging network will look to a new venue: the bank. By the end of 2020, Electrify America will make available about 40 DC fast-charging stations (locations), with a... 
Opposition from the President cuts the EV tax credit’s future. from the President Rivian is packing more energy into less space. And Ford has been more particular about how dealers advertise the price of the Mustang Mach-E. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Rivian will achieve its 400-mile (or more) range rating partly by including... 
Despite strong support for the extension and expansion of the federal EV tax credit, the effort appears to have run out of juice in Washington—specifically, at the Oval Office. The proposal, which in November had bipartisan support in the Senate, was on Monday cut out of a massive $1.4 trillion federal spending bill due to be passed this... 
The LA Auto Show reveal of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E last month created a lot of buzz from electric-vehicle fans and Mustang fans alike—so much, it seems, that Ford is making some preemptive moves to make sure its dealerships aren’t sharks in the cool blue waters. In a bulletin sent to its dealers in early December—and... 
Until the infrastructure can catch up—and well beyond then, if you’re talking about go-anywhere electric trucks like those from Rivian—big batteries will be a necessity for getting more people switching to EVs. Rivian has accepted that from the start with its R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV, with battery packs that start... 
The Mercedes-Benz EQC isn’t arriving in the U.S. this year or next year. The latest plug-in hybrid model from Mini has been rated by the EPA for range and mileage. Downtown Detroit ends the decade a little less of a charging desert. And we highlight our three nominees for Best Car To Buy 2020. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. While... 
Carmakers have become increasingly attuned to the idea of reducing carbon footprint and emissions in their manufacturing and emissions, and car shoppers have become more demanding and discerning.We’re happy to have made the requirements for our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy narrow enough to point to a select few vehicles. In continuing a... 
The home base for the U.S. auto industry has long been downtown Detroit. And as much as that industry has wanted to talk the talk about electrification the past several year, it hasn’t walked the walk in its home turf. Detroit almost made it to the end of the decade without a single DC fast charger. Until recently—like just three... 
One of the best arguments for plug-in hybrids is that they’re one-size-fits-all vehicles, enabling owners to plug-in when they’re going about their normal weekday commute routine—keeping the miles all or mostly electric—and yet giving them the freedom to go well beyond where charging networks might easily permit on the... 
The top-selling luxury-vehicle brand in the U.S. now isn’t likely to have a fully electric vehicle back in its American lineup until 2021. According to Bloomberg, Daimler AG revealed the delay in an emailed statement to dealers—and that it made the design as a strategic one, to focus on growing demand for it in Europe. Now the due date... 
Which EV requires that owners return to the dealership for an upgrade, so they can then get future upgrades? How are shoppers’ priorities shaping up for future electric trucks like the Tesla Cybertruck? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 13, 2019. This week... 
In China, EV automaker Xpeng’s owners will be able to access Nio’s underused charging and battery-services network. Globally, Cadillac will go mostly electric by 2030. And here in the U.S., the Toyota Highlander is looking like a bargain. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The Toyota Highlander Hybrid starts under $40,000... 
Before Tesla actually entered China, the electric automaker Nio had built a reputation as the Tesla of China, for good reason: It built an extensive network of DC fast chargers and energy services—to the degree that, just as with Tesla and its Supercharger network, the company seemed to be building something that other automakers might be...