The Tesla Model S was the first long-range premium electric car, and it’s been on the market for seven years. And yet just now, for the 2020 model year, arrives what some might see as its first formidable fully electric rival from Germany: the Porsche Taycan. Although when Porsche first showed its Mission E Concept, at the 2015 Frankfurt... Tesla Model S vs. Porsche Taycan: How the two electric cars compare
The Tesla Model S was the first long-range premium electric car, and it’s been on the market for seven years. And yet just now, for the 2020 model year, arrives what some might see as its first formidable fully electric rival from Germany: the Porsche Taycan. Although when Porsche first showed its Mission E Concept, at the 2015 Frankfurt... 
In its first big test, the passenger-car hydrogen economy appears to be failing. A June explosion at a hydrogen production facility in Santa Clara, California, owned by hydrogen producer Air Products shut off the fuel supply to many of the hydrogen filling stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Months later, many of the region’s hundreds of... 
Ford executives this earlier this week stepped up the anticipated timeline for the upcoming electric Ford F-150 pickup. It’s now due in 2021, according to several reports. And it coincides with a concerted effort from Ford to promote electric cars. That includes a series of ads, coming soon—spending level undisclosed—based on an... 
EV sales in California are booming. We get to tell you what it’s like to ride in the Porsche Taycan electric car. And Porsche pushes out specs and info, and pulls the final wraps off the Taycan, triggering a mother lode of stories from our editors. All this and more at Green Car Reports. Today marked the full-stop information drop regarding... 
Porsche doesn’t believe in one-pedal driving. And its electric vehicles—including the 2020 Porsche Taycan—aren’t going to have the feature. “It is easier to control braking point and deceleration with one pedal, the brake pedal,” bluntly summed Ingo Albers, Porsche’s director overseeing chassis and some of... 
The 2020 Porsche Taycan is the German sports-car maker’s first all-electric car. It’s also the most serious competitor yet to the Tesla Model S, the groundbreaking luxury electric car that’s in its seventh year on sale. A good deal of information about the Taycan electric sedan has already been released or leaked. Much of its... 
The 2020 Porsche Taycan is the German maker’s sixth model line, its first-ever electric car, and remarkably expensive, starting at $152,250 for the Turbo and $186,350 for the Turbo S. Those are prices comparable to the similarly named models of the 911, its legendary sport coupe. It rides on an entirely new platform, code-named J1, that will... 
Even as sales of small cars drop in California and across the country, sales of electric cars continue to climb, breaking past 5 percent of the market so far in 2019. In its quarterly California Auto Outlook, the California New Car Dealers Association reported that even while sales of cars—besides SUVs and pickups—have fallen in the... 
It’s time for electric school buses to take to the streets. Volkswagen is settling up with owners over misstating fuel economy numbers. And a survey confirms that Americans do indeed want better mileage. All this and more on Green Car Reports. For a vast swath of the U.S., it’s back-to-school day. And while the big yellow school buses... 
There was a time when freezing federal vehicle emissions and fuel economy standards was something that automakers, a wide range of companies, and a very significant portion of the American public might have backed. But that isn’t the case today. A new nationally representative survey from Consumer Reports, conducted in June but released last...