Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Today we look at a way to test battery-electric cars against hydrogen fuel-cell cars, a teaser for an Infiniti Geneva Motor Show concept, and Audi''s purchase of patents for fuel-cell technology from Ballard Power Systems. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

A first drive of the VF 8 last year led to a rare takeaway that you simply shouldn’t buy one. It appears Green Car Reports was not alone in this conclusion, as the VF 8 was similarly panned by other publications. In January, it revealed a pickup truck concept and a tiny SUV called the VF 3. Despite U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending. Toyota Urban SUV Concept And never mind the Nissan Leaf, apparently—or the Chevy Bolt EV. Two automakers this past week, both known for affordable gasoline cars, dashed hopes of seeing more affordable EVs anytime soon.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

All this and more on Green Car Reports. Refrigerated trucks are a small but crucial piece of the commercial van market; now Nissan has an all-electric refrigerated van concept.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 31, 2020

Strange things are afoot when a manufacturer decides to show an advert for a range of concept vehicles you can’t buy, but this is the world we live in now.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 6, 2024. In a first drive of the 2025 Porsche Taycan , we found that with improvements to performance, efficiency, and charging, this grand-touring electric sports car lives up to its original mission—and much more.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 31, 0001

Strange things are afoot when a manufacturer decides to show an advert for a range of concept vehicles you can’t buy, but this is the world we live in now

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show opens to the public today with a glittering display of green cars taking pride of place. The show, based at the Los Angeles Convention Center will host more than 30 significant world and North American debuts and feature more than 900 vehicles from sports cars and sedans to crossovers and minivans.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. The large battery block is bolted to the floor structure of the Audi e-tron quattro concept.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The critical need for government leadership in the emergence of electric vehicles dominated a recent Green Fleet Management discussion in Toronto, hosted by Fleet Challenge Ontario. Whether or not cities, or anyone else for that matter, can afford to buy electric vehicles is a real concern. They need to do much better than this.

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EV Adoption

APRIL 9, 2023

Electrify America DCFC Located at a Home Depot in Massachusetts | Image via Green Car Reports 4. On the positive side, apartment dwellers who are considering buying or leasing an EV but don’t have access to a charger at their apartment complex may end up buying an EV knowing that they can charge at the nearby Walmart.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

According to the FLA’s head of motor finance Paul Harrison, this is the key for long-term demand for new cars when the economy recovers. More damning in their criticism of the scheme is the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), which has described the concept as “environmentally short sighted”. Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Toyota has long been one of the leading carmakers in the world of green cars. As the world’s largest passenger car producer, Toyota continues to lead the field in research and testing a number of new technology vehicles. What is it that makes Toyota, a leader in the field of green car technology?

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car. They are busy proving, despite automaker resistance, that the plug-in hybrid concept is worth pursuing. And these advocates have successfully prodded Toyota to dangle a concept PHEV before our eyes. They could make PHEVs and EVs today, but they don't want to.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Postal Service announced last week that it will buy six electric vans from the startup Canoo for its delivery fleet. Dodge Charger Daytona Concept And is very quick EV acceleration a safety feature ? Which automaker CEO sees EV acceleration as a safety feature? In the U.S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" The first after-market conversion company, built Felixs car, currently provides vehicles mainly to fleets.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2009

The eagerness to reward green car buyers for their purchases now looks likely to extend to Israel, where the finance ministry is planning new regulations on car purchasing according to Reuters. It is expected that the cars with the highest fuel consumption levels, such as SUVs, will face increased taxes and duties.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Those wishing to participate will be able to tie into the multi-site webchat from Green Car Congress tomorrow, as well as directly on GM’s FastLane Blog , the EV World site, or the GM-Volt site. The concept that Tony [Posawatz] used of a plug-in ecosystem is perfect for what we are trying to do. Bob Hayden.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

“The reason is, in order to improve the hydrogen infrastructure you need to use and consume it—so if you make it chargeable at home, then those people won’t consume the hydrogen,” summed Toyota Mirai chief engineer Yoshikazu Tanaka to Green Car Reports in 2020, explaining why a charge port had been considered for that model but ruled out.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. Virtually any car, truck or bus can be made or redesigned as a long-range PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

Which generation buys the most EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 22, 2024. BMW Vision Neue Klasse X concept BMW provided a first look at another concept previewing its next generation of EVs. Which automaker recalled nearly 150,000 U.S.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The green car race may have been dominated by Japanese and German manufacturers to date, with American automakers playing catch-up, but now it is the French who are fighting back with Peugeot, Citroen and Renault all revealing a greener outlook…. The green car race: the French are coming.

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Baua Electric

MAY 19, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 17, 2024. Honda 0 Saloon concept Honda has confirmed that it plans to make two million EVs annually by 2030. Which EV charging network remains slated for growth, with nearly the entire team laid off? In Q1, U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996.

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