With the debut of the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS show car at Frankfurt Tuesday, the German automaker is pointing to more than just future electric vehicles. The EQS “points the way to the future of Mercedes-Benz,” the automaker declares, and says that it provides an outlook on “a new dimension in sustainable luxury.” Under... Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS rethinks the S-Class as all-electric
With the debut of the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS show car at Frankfurt Tuesday, the German automaker is pointing to more than just future electric vehicles. The EQS “points the way to the future of Mercedes-Benz,” the automaker declares, and says that it provides an outlook on “a new dimension in sustainable luxury.” Under... 
Hyundai is channeling nostalgia for a past product that Americans never had with its 45 concept car revealed Tuesday at the Frankfurt auto show. But that won’t get in the way of Americans appreciating the design of this strikingly different concept—or seeing it as retro. The concept, according to Hyundai, evokes “emotional... 
Nissan has reportedly shown its all-electric crossover to dealers, but it isn’t coming soon. Porsche has upped its investment in Rimac. Hyundai and Kia are investing in very fast charging—in Europe. And the first of VW’s affordable electric cars is revealed in full. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Volkswagen has... 
Porsche announced last week that it has increased its investment in Rimac Automobili, the Croatian electric sports-car maker. It now holds 15.5 percent in Rimac, a step up from June 2018, when the German sports car maker purchased a 10 percent stake. What’s one established sports-car brand—and part of the greater Volkswagen Group, with... 
Four years since the start of a scandal that forever changed it, Volkswagen has made its strongest move yet to putting that era behind it. On Monday VW revealed the production ID 3, the first of what it hopes will be many millions of vehicles built on a dedicated fully electric platform. Although details are mostly unchanged from when Volkswagen... 
Faraday Future names a new CEO. Lamborghini shows that supercapacitors work well for saving energy and going fast. And Mercedes-Benz introduces the latest revamped member of its plug-in hybrid family. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLC350e plug-in hybrid will charge faster, go farther all-electric on a charge... 
Sometimes one model year makes quite the difference; and such is the case for the Mercedes-Benz GLC350e plug-in hybrid. The 2020 version of this model will get refreshed styling, the luxury automaker’s latest cabin interface, and its new, third-generation plug-in hybrid hardware. With more torque, more smoothness, and more battery, the... 
The Right to Repair movement aims to help shield owners from efforts by the carmakers to make repairs more difficult or complicated without the manufacturer’s special access to tools, parts, and diagnostics. So far that hasn’t stopped Tesla from doing, well, about exactly that with its original Roadsters. But it hasn’t deterred... 
What electric car, formerly called the Mission E concept, made its debut this past week? Where are there many fuel-cell vehicles but not enough hydrogen to keep them filled? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 6, 2019. It’s been a Porsche Taycan kind of week... 
The Trump administration is aiming to revoke California’s ability to regulate tailpipe emissions. Volkswagen is making a new electric Beetle—but it’s not quite what you might think. Two-speeds are coming—to EVs. And we take a look at Ford’s latest and probably most important hybrid. All this and more at Green Car...