Toyota on Tuesday announced plans to launch 30 electric vehicles across its main Toyota brand and Lexus luxury brand by 2030, unveiling a dozen concepts previewing some of those models. The lineup covers a wide variety of vehicle types, including a sports car (the Toyota Sports EV), an SUV that seems to be inspired by the defunct Toyota FJ Cruiser...
The company’s Lexus brand will only sell electric cars by 2030 in China, Europe and the United States.
Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn calls out the company’s approach on EVs. The Biden administration lays out its approach for 500,000 national EV chargers. We look at the VW ID.4 and why it’s on our Best Car To Buy shortlist. And Hyundai has priced the Ioniq 5. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 lineup now...
Electric vehicles, and their potential to greatly cut our carbon footprint over their useful life, can make the most difference if they’re adopted in mass-market numbers. And among all of this year’s Best Car To Buy finalists, it’s the Volkswagen ID.4 that has the greatest potential to truly go big. Just over five years ago, as...
Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan CEO who oversaw the launch of the Leaf and was later arrested for alleged financial misconduct, has resurfaced with some harsh criticism of automakers' current EV plans. In a nearly two-hour interview first noted by Automotive News, Ghosn lays into plans from Nissan and established automakers, calling their plans to...
The White House on Monday released its EV Charging Action Plan, outlining steps toward a previously announced goal of a national network of 500,000 charging stations. The plan calls for establishment of a Joint Office of Energy of Transportation to coordinate work by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Transportation (DOT) on charging...
Hyundai has released starting prices for its Ioniq 5 electric SUV, due for first deliveries later this month. The base Ioniq 5 SE with the 58-kwh battery pack and rear-wheel drive will start at $40,925, including destination, while a base SE model with the larger 77.4-kwh pack and rear-wheel drive will start at $44,875. Those represent the...
Ford is aiming to ramp up production of the Mustang Mach-E. Mazda is in on the “self-charging” marketing spin. And VW plans an electric camper van. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ford is planning to more than triple production of its Mustang Mach-E electric SUV by 2023, with an additional ramp-up that will start next year...
It may not be cheap, but swapping the combustion engine in your car for an electric one is getting easier.
Mazda this past week revealed a hybrid version of its Mazda 2 hatchback for Europe, with what’s under the hood billed as “full self-charging.” Confused? What the Mazda 2 Hybrid has is an application of Toyota’s familiar hybrid system, as already offered in the closely related Yaris Hybrid—neither of which are...
Volkswagen last week confirmed a camper version of its upcoming ID.Buzz electric van. Dubbed ID.California, the electric camper van was mentioned in a VW business update as a new "model derivative" to be manufactured at its Hanover, Germany, commercial-vehicle factory. That language, along with VW's previous confirmation that ID.Buzz models will...
Amid a push to become the largest producer of EVs by later in the decade, Ford plans to triple production of the Mustang Mach-E electric SUV by 2023. The automaker is now targeting annual production of over 200,000 units by that year, in response to customer demand, Ford spokesperson Mike Levine tweeted on Friday, adding that Ford plans to start...
Which automaker is developing a full-size truck for “incredibly high volume.” Which highly anticipated electric truck might get its own “crab” mode? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 10, 2021. This week, we announced our 2022 Best Car To Buy...
The company will make electric pickups at an existing plant and batteries at a factory built with a partner, a person with knowledge of the plan said.
A top General Motors executive has confirmed that the Chevrolet Silverado EV will arrive in 2023, with production starting early that year. The timing, reported by Automotive News, is sooner than the late-2023 timeline previously suggested, yet it sets the Silverado EV—or Silverado E as it’s been called at times—up for an arrival...
EV battery recycling won't become a major business until 2030, according to a new report from research firm Wood Mackenzie. Recycling used EV battery packs has been discussed as a way to lessen demand on resources, but it will be difficult for recyclers to achieve competitiveness on cost and volume, or even find enough battery packs to recycle...
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The White House on Wednesday announced a goal to make all light-duty vehicles in the federal fleet electric by 2027, and to make all federal vehicle acquisitions electric by 2035. As a first step toward President Biden's previously discussed goal of making the entire federal fleet electric, this was one of several new environmental goals announced...
Herbert Diess, who angered workers by mentioning the possibility of job cuts, will hand over some authority to a deputy.
GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Earlier this week we announced our shortlist of five vehicles, one of which will be...
GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Earlier this week we announced our shortlist of five vehicles, one of which will be...
