Do you look forward to wireless charging at home? Take our Twitter poll

2018 BMW 530e iPerformance wireless chargingLast week, news came that could make finally help bring wireless charging to more electric-car drivers. Qualcomm, one of the biggest players sold its Halo wireless charging business to one of its biggest rivals, WiTricity. Not unlike DC fast charging, one of the biggest problems bringing the new technology into widespread use was competing...

Porsche Taycan testing, Ford electric SUV: Today’s Car News

Porsche Taycan prototypeNew spy shots reveal quite a bit about the new Porsche Taycan. And on an abbreviated holiday schedule today, we run down what we know about Ford's upcoming 300-mile SUV. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Spy photographers caught a Porsche Taycan undergoing winter testing with a bare minimum of camouflage—beyond some dummy tailpipes on...

Best deals, Kia Soul EV, Toyota ad, Tesla dog mode: Today’s Car News

Audi Q4 e-tron concept teaser sketchIt's official on Rivian and Amazon. Tesla introduces a new Dog Mode to keep dogs cool in parked cars. Final EPA range estimates are released for the 2020 Kia Soul EV. We run down the best deals on hybrid, plug-in, and electric cars for February. And Toyota falls back on an old advertising theme: You don't really want plug in, do you? All this and...

Commentary: Toyota Corolla Hybrid ad brags about not plugging in

2017 Toyota Prius Prime, Catskill Mountains, NY, Nov 2016In Toyota's latest ad for its new Corolla Hybrid in Britain, it's 2002 all over again. The ad shows the new Corolla Hybrid (in non-U.S. hatchback form) bypassing all kinds of road transportation alternatives from different eras—from a stagecoach and an early brass-era car to 1950s hot rods and, finally—an electric car plugged in and...

Best deals on hybrid, plug-in, and electric cars for February 2019

2019 Hyundai Ioniq ElectricPresidents' Day Weekend typically brings deals in car showrooms. And this month is no exception. As electric-car fans wait for a slew of new models to hit the market this spring, some of the same cars that have made up recent months' best deals appear again. Two, however, are recent entrants. Our partners at CarsDirect who come up with our list of...

Dogs are cool, especially in Teslas with new Dog Mode

Tesla Model 3 Dog ModeJudging from recent news reports, it's all too easy to focus on the limitations on electric cars—range, recharge speeds, and most recently, their cold weather performance. Some things, though, electric cars can do that others can't. Take Tesla's new Dog Mode, announced by CEO Elon Musk on Twitter on Wednesday. The new feature, being pushed...

Mileage or money? Fiat Chrysler pays for missing fuel economy targets

 2019 Ram 1500 North EditionIt turns out there's more than one way for automakers to meet fuel-economy targets. One is to develop and sell more fuel-efficient cars and trucks. The other—as demonstrated over the years by quite a few automakers—is to pay fuel economy fines to the U.S. Treasury as a course of doing business. That's the course Fiat Chrysler took for...