Most Fords will be hybrid or electric by 2025 … in China

2012 Ford Focus Electric launch, New York City, January 2011 - Nancy GioiaFord has aggressive electrification plans for China. In a recent announcement, the U.S. automaker said that 70 percent of the vehicles it sells in the country by 2025 will be hybrids—either plug-in or conventional—or fully electric. Ford builds vehicles in China through a joint venture with Chongqing Changan Automobile Company, and the...

Honda CR-V Hybrid SUV debuts in Shanghai: U.S. sales possibility obvious

Honda CR-V Hybrid introduced at 2017 Shanghai auto showIt's one of the more frequent questions on consumer car sites: why aren't there any hybrid crossover utility vehicles? The Ford Escape Hybrid reigned alone in the first segment from 2004 through 2012, and then Ford simply walked away from the segment. It took until last year for the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to arrive, quickly racking thousands of...

Is the science of climate change open to debate? Poll results

Chrome exhaust pipeIt's mixed news these days for those concerned about continuing manmade climate change. On the one hand, global carbon emissions were flat for the third year in a row, increasing numbers of global corporations have lined up to support climate-change reduction efforts, and electric power is getting cleaner as coal slowly ebbs as a fuel despite the...

Modified ‘new’ 2015 Volkswagen TDI diesels come with big discounts

2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI SEIf you're itching to climb into a brand new, 2015 Volkswagen TDI, the german automaker wants to sweeten the deal for you. Volkswagen has begun selling its fixed, 2015 model year TDI diesel vehicles and the marque has given dealers a bit of firepower to help move cars from dealerships to driveways. The vehicles include the Beetle Coupe and...

2017 Tesla Model X electric-car pricing, feature changes

2017 Tesla Model XTesla has released updated pricing and features for its 2017 Tesla Model X all-electric crossover utility vehicle, including lower prices for both the 75D and 90D models. Like the changes released at the same time to the Model S sedan, the new lineup increases the distance between the two lower-end models and the top-of-the-range 100D and P100D...

VW Electrify America plan for electric-car charging across U.S. released

BMW i3 and Volkswagen e-Golf electric cars using Combined Charging System (CCS) DC fast chargingTwo billion dollars is a lot of money. When VW Group of America agreed to fund a $2 billion project to spread zero-emission vehicle infrastructure across the U.S. as part of its settlements in the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal, that immediately changed the playing field for electric-car fast charging. Now the first of four phases of the...