Toyota on Tuesday night introduced yet another new crossover SUV, and it appears to test just how many ways the automaker can divvy up what’s become the heart of the American vehicle market. The 2025 Toyota Crown Signia is a five-seater that’s hybrid-only, with all-wheel drive across its lineup. The interior looks very roomy, and...
Making the Camry all-hybrid is a big move. Alongside shifting preferences toward SUVs and pickups, the Camry has kept its crown as the bestselling car in the U.S. for decades. Going all-hybrid says much about Toyota’s level of confidence in its hybrid system and the role it serves to play in the immediate future. Right now, the outgoing...
Volvo revealed its first minivan, and it’s a long-range, road-trip-worthy EV. Karma has another new product plan. And why is it a problem that EV owners are driving less? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With the full reveal of the Volvo EM90 electric minivan this past weekend—for now only positioned for China—Volvo is...
California’s Karma Automotive has revealed two new designs for fully electric vehicles, as part of a revamped portfolio for the brand. Karma says that as part of an effort “reintroducing the Karma brand,” it plans a flagship fully electric coupe called Kaveya, boasting all-wheel drive, scissor doors, and more than 1,000 hp in its...
A new study has found that EVs aren't being driven as much as internal-combustion cars, indicating they aren't replacing as many miles driven in combustion vehicles as previously thought. Researchers from George Washington University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examined odometer readings from 12.9 million used cars and 11.9...
Volvo believes an electric minivan could be the future of luxury vehicles—in some markets at least. The automaker on Saturday fully revealed the all-electric EM90 and confirmed the opening of pre-orders in China. Volvo confirmed Chinese sales when it first announced the EM90 in August, and didn't discuss other markets in this latest...
China and the U.S. both gained from their economic integration. As they pull apart, each is finding it will be hard to fully replace the other.
Most Americans still don’t see an EV as their next vehicle. The upcoming Polestar 4 comes from South Korea as a trade workaround. Canoo remixes its electric pickup with some military punch. And what did Tesla confuse in some of its EVs with the steering yoke? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. According to a recent poll from Ipsos...
Tesla may have installed the wrong airbag for Model S and Model X owners who opted to switch from the available steering yoke back to the steering wheel, or vice versa. That’s according to recall documents posted late last week by the federal government and dated November 3. The frontal airbag itself is different between the two steering...
The move is the oil giant’s first foray in the production of a metal vital for electric vehicle batteries.
Canoo this week unveiled a civilian spinoff of the electric pickup truck it delivered to the U.S. Army last year for evaluation. Dubbed the American Bulldog, the pickup is based on the Canoo Light Tactical Vehicle which, when first shown nearly a year ago, featured dual-motor all-wheel drive and 600 hp, plus Kevlar armor, a raised suspension, and...
Polestar 4 electric SUVs destined for North America will be built at a Renault plant in Busan, South Korea, alongside a previously announced assembly plant in China. Revealed Thursday by Renault and then confirmed by Polestar the following day, the arrangement will see manufacturing in South Korea start in the second half of 2025, following a...
Most Americans are unlikely to buy an EV as their next car, yet a slim majority of Americans support government incentives for those that do want to go electric, according to a recent Ipsos/Yahoo Finance survey. The survey, based on what Ipsos described as a "nationally representative probability sample of 1,025 general population adults age 18 or...
When is a fully electric Jeep Wrangler arriving? Where might the next Chevy Bolt EV be built? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending November 10, 2023. The 2025 Volvo EX30 electric crossover is coming soon and sets a new stride for the Swedish brand, with a size not much larger...
The Toyota Camry Hybrid is soon getting all-wheel drive. Battery tech in the Polestar 5 could allow some very fast charging. Lucid lets the Air charge other EVs. And VW claims again it’s working on a $35,000 EV for the U.S. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Polestar offered up a number of technology announcements and product previews...
Volkswagen is once again planning to bring an affordable electric vehicle to the U.S. market—and it’s setting a target under $35,000. According to reporting from Reuters, from one of its own trade conferences in Detroit, VW Group of America product strategy chief Reinhard Fischer confirmed the new product focus for North America...
The redesigned 2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid will debit November 14 at the 2023 Los Angeles auto show, Toyota has revealed, hinting that it will add all-wheel drive to the hybrid version of the ubiquitous mid-size sedan for the first time. All-wheel drive Toyota hybrids are nothing new, but up to this point the Camry Hybrid has only been available with...
The Lucid Air tops other EVs in EPA-rated range, meaning drivers will have plenty to spare after most trips. Now they can use it to charge other EVs. Lucid on Thursday announced that it is enabling this function, dubbed RangeXchange by the automaker, via an over-the-air (OTA) software update and adapter. This will enable an Air to charge another...
An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software.
The electric vehicle brand Polestar has announced that it plans to make the first EV with extremely fast-charging, semi-solid-state battery cells from the tech firm StoreDot. The announcement was made as part of a Polestar Day event held in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the companies demonstrated both the charging of StoreDot’s...
