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2016 Chevy Volt Teased, 2016 Honda HR-V Details, Audi A7 Fuel-Cell Plug-In Car: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

We have staff on site at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show to bring you the latest green-car news, including more details on the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, the 2016 Honda HR-V, and the Audi A7 h-tron quattro, which combines elements of hydrogen fuel-cell and plug-in hybrid powertrains. Combining hydrogen fuel cells.'

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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Chevrolet Volt

Green Car Reports

The first Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car won all sorts of awards in 2011, the year it was introduced. But it didn't win that year's Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, because we deemed the world's first mass-priced high-volume battery-electric car more significant.

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2016 Chevy Volt Coming: A Look Back At GM's Range-Extended Electric Car (News Video)

Green Car Reports

The Chevy Volt has been on sale for three and a half years now, and it''s never quite lived up to the big expectations that GM and the world had for it. But this week, the company confirmed that a new 2016 Volt will debut in January, at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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2016 Chevy Volt, Tesla Gigafactory And Tucson, Electric-Car Batteries: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: What we know (so far) about the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, Tucson makes a bid for the Tesla Motors battery "Gigafactory," and why standardized electric-car battery swapping won''t happen. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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2016 Toyota Prius Vs 2016 Chevrolet Volt: Video Test

Green Car Reports

They're both green-car leaders--in the public eye and in EPA energy-efficiency ratings. But the new 2016 Toyota Prius and 2016 Chevrolet Volt take very different approaches to delivering that efficiency. The newest Prius is the latest generation of the world's best-known, and best-selling, hybrid car.

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2016 Chevy Volt Teased, Ram EcoDiesel Mileage, 2015 Hyundai Sonata Driven: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports, we''ve got a little bit of everything. The 2016 Chevrolet Volt is teased ahead of its January Detroit Auto Show debut, Ram 1500 EcoDiesel pickup drivers beat official mileage ratings in real-world use, and we test the gas mileage of the 2015 Hyundai Sonata. Tech from the i3 and i8.'

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2016 Chevy Volt Powertrain Details, Tesla Competition, 2015 Audi A3 TDI: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we''ve got the first details on the second-generation Voltec electric-drive system that will power the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, analysis of how Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz plan to compete with Tesla Motors, and the 2015 Audi A3 TDI is the first of our five nominees for Green Car Reports 2015 Best Car To Buy award.

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