The Polestar 2 electric crossover may be one of the first compact electric cars to be rated for towing any significant amount. Polestar announced a 3,300-pound tow rating for the upcoming model Wednesday, along with an optional power-folding towbar for flexibility. The company confirmed to Green Car Reports that U.S. versions of the Polestar 2... Polestar 2 electric car tows up to 3,300 pounds—including in US form
The Polestar 2 electric crossover may be one of the first compact electric cars to be rated for towing any significant amount. Polestar announced a 3,300-pound tow rating for the upcoming model Wednesday, along with an optional power-folding towbar for flexibility. The company confirmed to Green Car Reports that U.S. versions of the Polestar 2... 
Mini USA has opened the order banks for the 2020 Mini Cooper SE, the brand’s first electric car in many years, a revival of the formula that earned a lot of enthusiasm a decade ago in the Mini E, and its first to be mass-produced. The Mini Cooper SE is “based on, and dimensionally almost identical” to the Mini Hardtop 2-door... 
The cold-weather startup performance of the 2020 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell has been improved. If this feels like a low-priority item for a California car (with limited availability in Japan, too), let the irony fall like snowflakes: This piece of fuel-cell refinement was likely partly in preparation for a now-cancelled network of Air Liquide fueling... 
A new Electrify America partnership means you might not have to wade through a big-box parking lot to find a very fast road-trip charger. Ford confirms its electric F-150 and its battery will be made in Michigan. We look at what didn’t quite make our Best Car To Buy contenders list. And how speedy will electric Minis get? This and more... 
Change comes, but not always in the ways you expect it. That’s a lesson that burbles up from the depths of the mainstream vehicle market when we look at the types of green cars we expected by the end of the decade, and what we actually got. With each model year, despite the faster-than-expected gains in the affordability of lithium-ion... 
In November the United Auto Workers ratified a four-year contract with Ford—one that included an agreement to invest more than $6 billion in U.S. plants and, as was reported then, included plans to keep high-visibility electrification plans for the F-150 in Michigan. Tuesday, Ford made good on that plan for its Michigan plants, confirming... 
Up until now, most of the high-power DC fast chargers that Electrify America has installed for electric-car drivers have been at Walmart stores and big shopping centers. But soon the charging network will look to a new venue: the bank. By the end of 2020, Electrify America will make available about 40 DC fast-charging stations (locations), with a... 
Opposition from the President cuts the EV tax credit’s future. from the President Rivian is packing more energy into less space. And Ford has been more particular about how dealers advertise the price of the Mustang Mach-E. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Rivian will achieve its 400-mile (or more) range rating partly by including... 
Despite strong support for the extension and expansion of the federal EV tax credit, the effort appears to have run out of juice in Washington—specifically, at the Oval Office. The proposal, which in November had bipartisan support in the Senate, was on Monday cut out of a massive $1.4 trillion federal spending bill due to be passed this... 
The LA Auto Show reveal of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E last month created a lot of buzz from electric-vehicle fans and Mustang fans alike—so much, it seems, that Ford is making some preemptive moves to make sure its dealerships aren’t sharks in the cool blue waters. In a bulletin sent to its dealers in early December—and...