Henrik Fisker's latest startup vehicle brand took to the pre-CES scrum Sunday with what it says is a production version of the Ocean crossover. What Fisker hasn't confirmed yet are where the Ocean will be built, or which company will supply the batteries to provide its 300-mile electric range. The Ocean follows Fisker's EMotion sedan from the...
Toyota is doing good with its Corolla and RAV4 hybrids—and in the case of the RAV4, selling a lot of them. Byton says more about who’s providing content for its very large screen. BMW reworked some i3’s for limo duty. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. The startup automaker Byton has revealed more about what kind of...
The top-selling Toyota hybrid vehicle in the U.S. over the past year wasn’t part of the Prius family—or, technically, a passenger car. In 2019, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid wins that crown. According to Toyota’s 2019 year-end sales summary, released Friday, Toyota sold 92,525 RAV4 Hybrid SUVs to U.S. buyers in 2019, versus just 69,718...
Americans especially can get stuck in a bigger-is-better mentality—and services like Uber Black, which tends to equate larger vehicles with greater luxury, don’t help in any green gains claimed by such services. Seemingly in reaction to this, BMW is using this week’s CES 2020 in Las Vegas to make the point that compact and...
Just two years ago at CES, Byton revealed the M-Byte, a sleek, fully electric SUV that drew a whole lot of attention at the show especially for two reasons: its jaw-dropping 48-inch Shared Experience Display that spanned the full width of the dash, and its projected $45k starting price. To the first point, Byton is bringing that screen to...
Sometimes the market speaks decisively about what it wants, and we can make a tremendous impact by simply playing matchmaker rather than pushing back. That’s how we’d sum our feelings about the RAV4 Hybrid Limited we had at our annual Best Car To Buy roundup this past fall. It made such a strong case for itself, with an EPA-rated...
Which plug-in hybrid offers the longest electric-only range? What’s our pick for the most influential new passenger vehicle of the past decade? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 3, 2020. Read up on our Best Car To Buy finalists, the Audi E-Tron, Kia Niro EV...
Honda isn’t sounding as bullish about electric cars as it did a couple of years ago; think hybrids instead. Tesla finishes the decade on a strong note and aims globally in 2020. And BMW could be working on an electric flagship sedan to rival the Model S and Audi E-Tron GT. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Tesla enters a new year...
Honda has said that it wants electrified vehicles to make up two-thirds of its global sales by 2030. That goal is nothing new; it was announced back in 2016. What is new is that Honda plans to emphasize hybrids (and perhaps plug-in hybrids) over electric vehicles, well into the next decade. Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo, in a recent interview with...
The electric-car maker said it made more than 100,000 vehicles in the last three months and put overall 2019 deliveries at 367,500.
