Track Mode released to make more of Tesla Model 3 Performance

2018 Tesla Model 3Tesla confirmed last Thursday that Track Mode has started rolling out for the Model 3 Performance, in an update for vehicles that have already received Version 9 of the automaker’s vehicle software. The company emphasized that Track Mode is intended specifically for closed circuits. It’s primarily a series of updates to the vehicle...

Faraday Future loses final founding executive

Artist’s impression of Faraday Future’s proposed plant in Hanford, CaliforniaFaraday Future is a startup electric carmaker founded by a Chinese investor and five executives with experience in building cars and electric cars. Now that the company seems to be in its final throes of its latest financial crisis, the last of those executives has reportedly left the company. READ THIS: Does Faraday have a Future? Latest...

VW is planning to build 50 million electric vehicles

Herbert DiessVolkswagen already had ambitious goals to ramp up electric-vehicle production to a rate of up to three million EVs annually by 2025, and potentially hit 10 million vehicles around 2027 if all goes right. But its plans look even more bullish on electric, considering the number of vehicles it's now supposedly signed up to build over a longer stretch...

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...

Chevrolet adds hydrogen-powered Silverado concept to the mix

Chevrolet Silverado ZH2 conceptHydrogen fuel cells may have a place on the battlefield. That's the conclusion that Chevrolet drew when it introduced the fuel-cell powered Colorado ZH2 for military use in 2016. We even had a chance to ride in it. Now the company is doubling down on the strategy with a full-size fuel-cell pickup, the Silverado ZH2, which appeared on the brand's...

VW, Mercedes-Benz agree to fix diesels in Germany

Mercedes-Benz GLS350d spotted testing near DenverVolkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have each agreed to spend up to $3,430 in Germany to update their older diesel cars with new emissions systems that comply with regulations, Reuters reported Thursday. The agreement mirrors one in the U.S. in which Volkswagen paid owners between $5,000 and $10,000 in addition to the cost of repairing or buying back...

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...