Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The fourth of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Kia Soul EV. It''s the Korean maker''s first-ever electric car sold in the U.S., DON''T MISS: Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The.'

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The fifth and final of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Volkswagen Golf range. DON''T MISS: Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The Nominees (Video).'

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The first of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Audi A3 TDI, the diesel version of Audi''s new compact luxury sedan. DON''T.'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

Every 2015 Buick model will come standard with a rearview camera. While they’re not standard on every car, yet, it’s rare to operate a new vehicle without them. 97% of the backing crashes in this study involved striking another vehicle, which corresponds with US crash data analyses.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Today we have the first plug-in electric car sales figures for October, the EPA range and efficiency figures for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf, and the fourth of our five 2015 Best Car To Buy nominees, the 2015 Kia Soul EV. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Based on emission levels recorded in vehicle tests, car registration data analyzed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the report “CO 2 emissions performance of car manufacturers in 2012” shows that in 2012 all major car manufacturers met their targets for their fleet. Cars sold by these companies made up 94.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

China’s new car market continues to be affected by the economic slowdown and the introduction of car purchase restrictions in eight key cities, according to the latest analysis by JATO Dynamics. New passenger car registrations in the world’s largest market totalled 18.9 million in 2015, an 11% increase on 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, will deliver a 2015 International CES keynote address focused on the latest advances in autonomous vehicle technology. They keynote will also feature the world-debut of a new car concept.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Volvo Cars, protective gravity sports gear manufacturer POC and Ericsson will present an innovative safety technology connecting drivers and cyclists at the International CES in Las Vegas next month. —Klas Bendrik, VP and Group CIO at Volvo Cars. Since spring 2013, all new Volvo cars are equipped with Auto brake for cyclists.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2016

if Twizy is included) and 23,086 units registered in 2015. In other terms, in 2015, one out of 5 electric cars sold in Europe was a Renault Z.E. Renault’s total sales in Europe for 2015 were 1,613,499 units; EVs thus represented 1.4% of market share and 18,453 new registrations in 2015. compared to 2014.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The fueleconomy.gov site is DOE’s most-visited, attracting more than 30 million user sessions in Model Year 2021—more than any year since 2015. Four of the models on the guide’s “best in class” list of cars by size are conventionally fueled. ORNL researchers are also working on launching phone apps for fueleconomy.gov.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 28, 2014

New-car ratings, driving impressions, and a lot of lengthy discussions go into picking our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award winner each year. We explained our process yesterday, along with all of our nominees for the 2015 award, but this year we thought we''d add a new element.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Renault-Nissan will provide the EVs to Orange by 2015. Orange will use the electric vehicles mostly for car-sharing purposes between its buildings and installations in France. Orange currently has about 2,000 pool vehicles in France with about 100 cars (hybrid, electric, diesel, etc.) available for car-sharing purposes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

2015 target: 130 g CO 2 /km. Cars sold in Europe in 2013 were collectively 4% more efficient than the year before, according to provisional data from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The average CO 2 emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 g CO 2 /km; the target for 2015 was 130 g/km. Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Roughly 145,000 new electric vehicles (EV) were sold in Europe in 2015—double the 2014 tally, according to a recent T&E report. That would take the total number of EVs on the road to more than half a million cars. The T&E report found that the growth in sales matched the slow increase in the variety of electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The third of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Hyundai Sonata Eco, the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid version of the Korean maker''s mid-size sedan. This new-for-2015 version of the Sonata is the sole model to use a turbocharged 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Opel will expand its small car range in the summer of 2015 with the new 5-door, entry-level Karl. With Karl, ADAM and the new generation Corsa, all launched in less than 30 months, Opel will have, as of next year, the strongest portfolio in the mini and small cars segments in its history, and one of the youngest on the market place.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Nearly half—48%—of rail tank cars carrying Class 3 flammable liquids in 2019 in the US met the new safety requirements, up from 33% in 2018, according to Fleet Composition of Rail Tank Cars Carrying Flammable Liquids: 2020 Report released today by the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Porsche AG is entering a third Porsche 919 Hybrid for the 24-hour race in Le Mans (France) on 13-14 June in 2015. As a dress rehearsal for the event, the car will be entered in the six-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) on 2 May. There is no final decision yet about the driver line-up for this third car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The battery-electric Fiat 500e is now available as a 2015 model year at Fiat studios in California and Oregon for $199 a month for 36 months with $999 due at signing. 2015 Fiat 500e. Sales of the Fiat 500e expanded to Oregon earlier this year. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

More than 10,000 vehicle orders were placed for the 2015 Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan ( earlier post ) on the day the vehicle ordering system opened on 8 May, and more than 17,000 vehicle orders were placed in the first two days, Chrysler said. The Sterling Heights (Mich.) Assembly Plant (SHAP) is at full production through mid-July.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2023

While over 10% of Chinese car sales are now electric, the entire life cycle of EVs still generates carbon emissions. Shaojun Zhang and colleagues conducted comprehensive “cradle-to-grave” assessments of EVs in 2015 and 2020, covering […]

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

Sales of new passenger cars and LCVs in Russia decreased by 457% in December 2015, with a 35.7% In December 2015, sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia decreased by 123,682 units to 146,963 cars, according to AEB AMC. Expectations for the new year are muted.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The second of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Honda Fit, the well-regarded subcompact five-door hatchback. It''s the third generation of the car sold in North America, and it''s got a new powertrain, dubbed with Honda''s EarthDreams label, that includes an updated 1.5-liter

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2015 Honda Buy North America 93

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2014

Opel is planning to introduce OnStar across its passenger car range in selected European markets beginning in 2015. With OnStar 4G LTE, the car becomes a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, giving easier access to apps and services that require a high-speed cellular or data connection, for up to seven mobile devices. More than 6.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

McLaren-Honda revealed its new MP4-30 racer for the upcoming 2015 FIA Formula One (F1) World Championship. The car is fitted with Honda’s RA615H Hybrid power unit. Earlier post.). The McLaren-Honda MP4-30 is the only chassis on the grid to be fitted with Honda’s new RA615H Hybrid power unit.

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Honda 2015 Hybrid Power 150

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

And while their geeky, sexy, danceable ''science experiment'' is definitely memorable, after driving the 2015 Kia Soul EV we have to wonder if perhaps the Energizer Bunny would have been a better cheer-creature. More than any non-Tesla-badged, all-electric car so.'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Global sales of SUVs surged 22% in 2015, supporting an overall increase in global sales of light vehicles of 1.7% in 2014-2015, according to data released by global market research company Euromonitor International. SUVs overtook lower medium cars to become the largest automotive segment in 2015, accounting for 22.9%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

announced that the compact battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ) has been rated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at 126 city, 105 highway, and 116 combined Miles per Gallon of Gasoline Equivalent (MPGe), and given a range of up to 83 miles. 2015 e-Golf. Volkswagen of America, Inc. EPA ratings for select EVs.

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2015 EPA Miles Range 239

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

The number of diesel car, SUV, full-size pickup trucks and vans in operation reached 8 million in 2016. smaller than the some 300,000 added to the US vehicle parc in 2015, but still demonstrated resilience in a market that had 25% fewer model choices available. The 2016 increase in diesel sales was about 6.7%

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A total of 45,173 cars are involved in the recall, including 198 2015 Ford Fiestas, 41,061 2016 Fusions, and 3,914 2016 MKZs. The recall notes that only cars registered in warm states are affected, such as Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. A previous recall issued in 2020 involved many more cars for a similar issue.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The average US household will spend about $550 less on gasoline in 2015 compared with 2014, as annual motor fuel expenditures are on track to fall to their lowest level in 11 years, according to projections by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Gasoline prices are forecast to go even lower in 2015.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2015 Audi S3 e-tron plug-in hybrid will launch in Germany this winter, the 2015 Hyundai Sonata Eco debuts, and why lithium-ion batteries degrade over time. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Is a spiffy paint-color option the only green thing about the 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2014

Remember when every new electric car that launched was surrounded by a fanfare? And that''s not a bad thing--it means enough electric cars are hitting the market that we can accept them as we might any other vehicle. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive is one such vehicle.'

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2015 Mercedes Electric Cars Cars 156

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The BMW i3 electric car appears ready to enter its second model year with a few more items on its list of standard equipment. DC fast charging, seat heaters, and satellite radio will be standard on 2015 BMW i3 models, according to an interview with a pair of BMW executives.

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BMW 2015 Standards Electric Cars 161

Green Car Reports

JULY 24, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2015 Nissan Leaf gets a handful of updates, a test ride of the Harley-Davdison Livewire electric motorcycle, and the 2015 Toyota Yaris debuts with a new face. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2015 Nissan Leaf electric car sports a handful of updates. We take.'

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