Kia Niro EV: Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee

2019 Kia Niro EV - Best Car To Buy 2020The electric-vehicle invasion hasn’t exactly happened the way it was supposed to some years ago—with mass-market models getting longer-range batteries or becoming even more affordable. Instead, Tesla has shown that electric vehicles can elbow in from the top and middle of the market, with an aesthetic that takes on premium brands...

Audi E-Tron: Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee

2019 Audi E-Tron - Best Car To Buy 2020The 2019 Audi E-Tron fits in—as a well-styled, contemporary SUV, as a superb luxury vehicle, and as an Audi. And it just so happens to be an electric vehicle. That’s the way Green Car Reports has more or less summarized Audi’s first fully electric vehicle after multiple experiences up close with it. The E-Tron is one of three...

GCR Best Car To Buy 2020: Green cars that didn’t make the cut

2019 Porsche Cayenne E-HybridChange 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...

Why haven’t you bought a Tesla Model 3 yet? Take our Twitter poll

2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range electric car, road test in greater Atlanta area, Feb 2018We just named the Tesla Model 3 Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy for 2019 for its combination of innovation, functionality, and performance. Like other Teslas, the Model 3 is designed to be an electric car meant to ignite buyers' passion. It isn't just a car you buy to do good for the world by driving electrically; it's a car you buy because you...

Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019: Tesla Model 3

2018 Tesla Model 3The Tesla Model 3 is Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2019. It’s the second time a Tesla product has won our annual award, which was captured by the Tesla Model S in 2013. Many have called the Model 3 Tesla’s “iPhone moment.” But that was the Model S—the shock to an auto industry that had dismissed its very premise...

Eight years of winners show how plug-in vehicles have evolved

2011 Nissan LeafAs we’re on the eve of naming our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019 award winner, a quick glance back at our previous winners offers several points of perspective. One of them is that the field has evolved tremendously since then, in such a relatively short time. Another is that the pace of environmentally-focused automotive technology...