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This story has been updated to clarify Electrify America's steps to stabilize the affected charging units, and the as-yet-undetermined timeline to bring them back to full charging power. Drivers of the Audi E-tron electric SUV aiming for a holiday-week road trip could be up for a longer wait at the charging station. It's no fault of the vehicle... 
Genesis plans a new electric sedan. Electric cars in Europe are required to be noisier today. Volkswagen makes Europe's new WLTP tests understandable in a video. And Nio recalled cars in China to address battery fires. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Genesis expanded its EV plans to include an electric sedan as well as an SUV. So far it... 
Electric cars in the European Union no longer benefit from their signature silent acceleration. Instead, they need to sound like gas cars. A new law taking effect in the EU Monday aims to improve safety by ensuring that pedestrians—including those who are sight impaired or distracted—can hear electric cars as they approach. The new law... 
From the U.S., we most often encounter European WLTP standards in the context of sizing up plug-in driving range for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids that haven’t yet been rated by the EPA. The Worldwide Harmonised Light-Vehicle Test Procedure, is however taking form as the most comprehensive emissions program in the world, replacing... 
Chinese startup automaker Nio is recalling nearly 5,000 of the ES8 SUVs that it has sold in China following a spate of fires in their battery packs. Nio says the pack assembly is the problem. A module in the pack can rub against a cable that samples voltage and eventually wear through the insulation—causing a short that leads to a fire. The... 
The first electric car for Hyundai's Genesis brand is due in 2021. Manfred Fitzgerald, the brand's global executive vice president, noted to Australia's Drive that the company is working on a new electric platform that is likely to spawn both a sedan and an SUV, with the sedan likely to come first. Though Genesis has shown several EV concepts over... 
If the future is electric, the latest electric-car startup company looks more like the future than most. Dutch startup company Lightyear is developing a futuristic-looking sedan with sleek aerodynamics, wheel-hub motors, and 53 square feet of solar panels on the roof and hood. That could amount to about 795 watts of solar power—about... 
Who made a new appearance as a pitchman for gas guzzlers? What company says gas and diesel engines will live on for decades—even as it pulled forward plans to build more electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 28, 2018. Beginning with Tesla models... 
Drivers of the Audi E-tron electric SUV aiming for a holiday-week road trip could be up for a longer wait at the charging station. It's no fault of the vehicle, and it's not a widespread issue; but if you have an E-tron it would be cause for some advance planning. The charging network Electrify America has had to temporarily reduce the power of 30...