California on Thursday approved a $437 million utility-based program that will add 38,000 new electric-car charging stations over five years. Approval from the California Public Utilities Commission gives Southern California Edison (SCE) the green light to start installing those stations, increasing charging infrastructure in the state that is by...
Bollinger Motors hasn't yet begun deliveries of its electric B1 SUV and B2 pickup truck, but on Thursday the company unveiled a third model. It's an electric delivery van called the Deliver-E, which Bollinger said will start production in 2022. While it shares powertrain components with the B1 and B2, the Deliver-E doesn't fit alongside the other...
Most Americans don’t have the information they need to effectively reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. You might be one of them.
It’s been a long time since Los Angeles has provided any update on its push to use more electric cars—including 200 BMW i3 EVs—in its police fleets. Now many of them have ended up listed at New Century BMW, a dealership in Alhambra, in the greater Los Angeles area, as first reported last week by The Current Review. New Century...
Which upcoming electric vehicle was the inspiration for a song? Which automaker has big plans to lease the battery separately? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending August 28, 2020. Lucid announced that its Air electric luxury car will have a 113-kwh battery pack, a...
That electric Corvette might still be coming—or GM is just looking to apply the Vette’s expertise on its upcoming EVs. The Mustang Mach-E electric SUV gets remixed into a song. And we drive the Mercedes-Benz GLB and wish it were an EQB. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Detroit-based electro musician Matthew Dear has remixed...
Sometimes what vehicles have gained through thoughtful improvement and brilliant design is overshadowed by what they gave up along the way. Yes, I’m talking about the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB. And yes, the whole time I was driving it last month I was haunted by the fact that it’s not offered with an all-electric powertrain like its...
There are many, many songs that mention one of the icons of gasoline-swilling, open-road Americana: the Ford Mustang. Meanwhile, there are very few electric Ford Mustangs in the world, and even fewer songs about electric Ford Mustangs. Leave it to Ford to change those things—both of them. Later this year, the start of deliveries of the Ford...
General Motors is moving engineers from its Chevrolet Corvette development team to its electric-vehicle program, InsideEVs reported Thursday. Specifically, GM moved the engineers from its Global Products Programs group to the Autonomous and Electric Vehicles group, according to the report. The current head of the Corvette team, Tadge Juechter...
Mahindra aims to develop commercial EVs with REE. Kia previews its upcoming Sorento Plug-In Hybrid. And don’t call the Volkswagen ID.4 electric crossover a Tesla Model Y killer. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The Kia Sorento Plug-In Hybrid SUV has been detailed for the European market, and it arrives there in early 2021. With this...