Today, we take a first look at the Fisker EMotion 400-mile electric car, tally October plug-in electric car sales, and look at a remarkable step to improve the energy efficiency of homes in one California city. All this and more on Green Car Reports. A transition to electric cars will require more than 10,000 job cuts, according to Volkswagen's... Fisker EMotion, Oct electric car sales, net-zero homes: Today’s Car News
Today, we take a first look at the Fisker EMotion 400-mile electric car, tally October plug-in electric car sales, and look at a remarkable step to improve the energy efficiency of homes in one California city. All this and more on Green Car Reports. A transition to electric cars will require more than 10,000 job cuts, according to Volkswagen's... 
Wireless electric-car charging seems to offer a somewhat more convenient experience. Instead of plugging in a charge cord, drivers simply park their electric cars over a pad, usually on the floor of a garage. But what if they didn't even have to do that? DON'T MISS: Plugless charging for 80 percent of electric cars by end of 2017: Evatran Evatran... 
Among U.S. states, California continues to lead the way in policies that aim to cut carbon emissions. The Golden State has ambitious emission-reduction targets, and has implemented policies for both transportation and energy to achieve them. But the city of Santa Monica has just done something unprecedented—even for California. DON'T MISS... 
While it plans to launch 10 new electric cars by 2025, Mercedes-Benz is far from done trying to improve the efficiency of internal-combustion engines. The German luxury automaker is giving its lineup of engines a major overhaul, in fact. It plans to introduce a new family of 4-, 6-, and 8-cylinder engines, with the new engines starting to arrive... 
As it works to pull itself out of the quagmire of the ongoing diesel-emissions scandal, VW Group has ambitious plans to add more electric cars to its lineup. Right now, the only electric car Volkswagen sells in multiple regions under its own brand its the e-Golf, an all-electric variant of the popular hatchback. But the company plans to launch 30... 
Today, Tesla debuts a larger PowerWall 2.0 energy-storage battery pack, Mercedes-Benz plans to launch 10 electric cars by 2025, and Faraday Future teases the electric car it will unveil at CES in January. All this and more on Green Car Reports. In case you missed it, we have news on Volkswagen diesel buybacks, the 2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, and... 
When it comes to electric cars, China has some of the most generous incentives of any country. But in its attempt to promote greener vehicles, China has largely ignored hybrids to focus on cars with plugs. Efforts so far have concentrated on what the government calls "New Energy Vehicles," a category that encompasses electric cars, plug-in... 
Stricter global emissions standards have led many automakers to downsize engines, but that trend may be about to reverse itself. Cutting displacement is a relatively straightforward way to improve fuel economy. But as regulators move toward adoption of more realistic testing procedures in the wake of the Volkswagen diesel scandal, automakers may... 
Faraday Future will unveil its first production electric car at CES in January, and last week it released a short teaser video previewing that vehicle. The short video features a camouflaged test vehicle driving around a track, but offers little information about Faraday Future's first model. Text that accompanies the video notes the quietness of... 
After unveiling its Generation EQ electric SUV concept at the 2016 Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz announced some ambitious future electric-car plans. Late last week, the luxury carmaker said a production model based on the Generation EQ will be the first of no fewer than 10 electric cars it will sell under a new EQ sub-brand. That would seem to...