Today, Donald Trump nominates a climate-science denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Congress questions $2 billion in zero-emission vehicle infrastructure funding from the Volkswagen diesel scandal, and a new study claims it is better to recycle electric-car battery packs than reuse them. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

Several automakers have experimented with "second-life" reuse of electric-car battery packs, but a new report claims it is better to simply recycle them.

After polling our Twitter followers on which Green Car Reports articles were most valuable, we asked which articles were least valuable. Here are the results.

Could soft contact lenses be the key to supercapacitors for electric cars? U.K. researchers think so.

Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's nominee for EPA administrator, is a climate-science denier who has sued the agency he is tapped to lead multiple times.

Nissan is finally rolling out an upgrade for the 2G telematics system in older Leaf electric cars, just 24 days before provider AT&T shuts off its 2G network.

Members of Congress continue questioning $2 billion in funding from the Volkswagen 2.0-liter diesel settlement set aside for zero-emission vehicle infrastructure.

We rounded up all of the 2017 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety Pick+ winners.

Finally, Toyota details a host of new powertrain components, including 8-speed and 10-speed automatic transmissions, and hybrid and plug-in hybrid systems.

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