The 2022 Lexus UX 250h hybrid luxury crossover enters the new model year with minor changes, continuing Lexus' strategy of emphasizing conventional hybrids over vehicles with charge ports. The only major change is the addition of new exterior colors, including Grecian Water (blue), Cloudburst Gray, and Cadmium Orange, and the option for body-color...
Nissan on Thursday announced an "intention" to make battery-electric cars account for more than 40% of its United States sales by 2030, with additional sales from other electrified models, such as hybrids and plug-in hybrids. That represents a more aggressive target than that unveiled by the Biden Administration that overshadowed it the same day...
An electric trailer could solve the largest problem when towing with an electric vehicle: You might only go half the distance on a charge while towing. To compensate, EV shoppers who plan to tow beyond city limits need to opt for the largest possible battery pack. But that means you’re hauling around many hundreds of pounds of extra...
Which upcoming EV is claimed to dominate the Tesla Model Y in fast-charging? Which 40-mpg hybrid pickup might be in short supply for at least a few months? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending August 6, 2021. In a first drive of the 2022 Audi E-Tron GT, we couldn’t...
A curbside charging project in Kansas City shows what could be done in many U.S. cities. The electric car sales charts aren’t just pointing to a Tesla market anymore. And could the most affordable Tesla for China be powered by cells from another EV maker? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. According to a report, BYD might as soon as...
EV sales are surging, well above previous quarterly and yearly levels—both in California and in the U.S. as a whole. That information comes from the California-based EV advocacy organization Veloz, in its quarterly sales update released Thursday. It’s good news, especially as Capitol Hill moves to consider not just a pending...
The Kansas City Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) will install streetlight-based EV charging stations under a pilot program evaluating curbside charging. First spotted by photovoltaics industry trade journal PV Magazine, the program calls for installation of 240-volt Level 2 charging stations integrated with streetlight poles at locations...
Chinese automaker BYD might supply its Blade lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery tech to Tesla for Chinese-market electric cars, according to a report from a local news source. BYD will begin supplying batteries to Tesla in the second quarter of next year, and Tesla is already testing vehicles equipped with these batteries, according to the...
A push to increase sales of electric vehicles favors companies that already have all-electric cars on the market and could penalize those that don’t.
President Biden, surrounded by labor and business leaders from the American auto industry, signed an executive order on Thursday setting a national goal to have half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 be electric.
