Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Electric-car owners may want to consider a road trip to Canada. Sun Country Highway (SCH) has just opened an extension of its network of charging stations to cover the length of Highway 401 between Detroit and Montréal.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

At the Detroit auto show on Monday morning, Cadillac previewed GM's new platform for electric cars, Infiniti previewed a new look for its upcoming electric lineup with a new SUV concept. Nissan reinvented the sedan with its new electric concept. All this and more on Green Car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2019

In time with the Detroit auto show, Chinese automaker Geely announced its first electric car planned to go on sale worldwide. Called the GE11, Geely's first global electric car is a sedan about the size of a Honda Civic or Insight, with a similar sloping fastback design.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

General Motors is adding two shifts and about 2,500 hourly and salaried jobs at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build the new Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan and the next-generation Impala large sedan alongside the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

German automakers have 16% of the electric car market in the US, according to Matthias Wissmann, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2017

China is now the world's largest new-car market, but no native Chinese manufacturers sell passenger cars in the U.S. GAC appeared this week at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show with three vehicles, including an electric car and a concept plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 5, 2015

We''ve got a report on 2014''s plug-in electric-car sales--including a sales record for the Nissan Leaf--as well as a preview of the upcoming green cars set to be unveiled at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show next week. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Today we''re looking back and looking ahead.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last week, ahead of the Detroit auto show, General Motors announced that it would shift its electric-car focus from building relatively affordable Chevrolets to expensive luxury Cadillacs. The company also showed images of a concept of its first electric Cadillac SUV.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2014

General Motors confirmed this morning that the revised 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be released at next January''s Detroit Auto Show. And the company released the first teaser image of the car, showing a more rounded rear to the liftgate of what will likely continue as a compact five-door hatchback.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2016

presidents in history have visited the Detroit Auto Show in its century-plus of existence: Dwight D. At various points during the day, the president lauded the ongoing recoveries of the city of Detroit itself as well as the domestic automakers, including the. Only three U.S.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 4, 2021

Volvo spinoff brand Polestar is adding more showrooms—and not just in the coastal cities considered most friendly to electric cars. Polestar on Monday announced plans for 15 new showrooms, with the first set to open this spring in Austin, Boston, and Denver.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2014 Detroit Auto Show is upon us, and we''re bringing you all the details on the (few) greener vehicles from the show. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla Motors will upgrade electric-car wall chargers for.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In the world of green cars, Nissan is best known for its Leaf electric car--which is the world''s best-selling electric vehicle ever, with more than 100,000 delivered. At last month''s Detroit Auto Show, Green.'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2012

We’re less than a week away from the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and that means automakers are eagerly dropping hints about what we’ll be seeing next week. For BMW, that means posting six screenshots from its unreleased iOS smartphone application for the 2013 BMW i3 electric car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2014

This week''s headlines included everything from the Tesla Model X to the 2014 Nissan Leaf electric car. Here''s a look at what happened in the green-car universe: We took a look at some upcoming vehicle debuts at next week''s 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and also laid some electric-car trivia upon you.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

On Sunday night, General Motors showed renderings of a future long-range, all-electric SUV to be offered roughly three years hence by its Cadillac luxury brand.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The 1917 Detroit Electric Model 68 in these photos was painstakingly restored over a period of years by owner Donald Davidson, who is only the car's third owner in 98 years. It's shown with Electric Auto Association board member Chris Neff's 2014 BMW i3 REx, which may be able to out-accelerate the.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. We expect the Detroit-Hamtramck plant will be the first facility in the US owned by a major automaker to produce an electric car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: New York City issues a road map for electrifying one-third of its taxi fleet, detailed pricing information the 2015 Audi A3 sedan is released, and Nissan''s design director discusses future electric-car plans. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

US Secretary of Transportation Ray Hood announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) will work closely with the city of Detroit, Michigan to complete the environmental review process for the 9.3-mile The vehicle in the red circle is an Edison electric car. Woodward Avenue in 1917. Source: DOT, Shorpy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2017

Today, we've got a report from our very, very brief drive in the Chevy Equinox Diesel compact crossover, some interesting survey data on how much electric-car range is "enough," another Tesla-trashes-supercar dragstrip video, and musings on a new Detroit factory and why it's where it is. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2018

Today, we've got some wrapup articles from both last week's Consumer Electronics Show and this week's Detroit auto show, thoughts on the electric-car tax credit, and greener wheels in Costa Rica. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2014

While one mother is taking today off as a weekend, tomorrow she and her daughter will likely don their work clothes and head back to the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant that builds the Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR extended-range electric cars. Earlier this week, te Detroit.'

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2014

Yesterday''s multi-hour presentation of the five-year plan for the combined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was called "Chryslerpalooza" by local Detroit reporters who sat through it. The first green news was that Chrysler will build small numbers of plug-in hybrid minivans and large SUVs to meet emission regulations.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Mazda is planning its next-generation Skyactiv engines, the Nissan e-NV200 electric London taxi debuts, and we preview the green production cars and concepts set to debut at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

Detroit News. GM plans to offer a full battery-electric car in China in the next two years to meet demand spurred by the Chinese government. The Detroit automaker already has begun testing its pure electric technology on a demonstration fleet of Chevy Sails in China, but still has hurdles to overcome.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 9, 2017

Today, the Volkswagen ID Buzz electric-car concept debuts at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, the 2018 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck will get a diesel engine option, and a new study indicates electric-car battery costs have fallen substantially over the past few years. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2013

Not content with grabbing headlines with the world’s fastest electric vehicle (see article), Detroit Electric is at it again: after announcing a strategic partnership in China. The company will team up with Geely Automobile Group to develop electric vehicles and related systems in the Chinese market.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Swiss design firm Rinspeed does not produce vehicles for sale, but it has built quite a number of unusual concept cars over the years. Its latest work will be displayed at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show and the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, which run within days of each other next month.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2013

The world’s fastest electric car has made its global, public debut at the Shanghai Motor Show: the Detroit Electric SP:01 (pictured) is a two-seat pure electric sports car that can race to an incredible top speed of 155mph while travelling from [.].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2017

The electric car that became the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV reset industry norms overnight when it was unveiled as a concept car at the 2015 Detroit auto show.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2015

Starting a new company is always somewhat difficult, but that’s particularly true in the car business. Even when the new company shares its name with one of the original manufacturers of electric cars. ALSO SEE: Detroit Electric SP:01 - The New Tesla Roadster?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Advance news on the green concept cars to be shown at next month's Detroit Auto Show continues to trickle out. The latest: a further evolution of the all-electric Volvo C30 three-door hatchback concept. It's the second European electric concept car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

At the Detroit auto show, Nissan today revealed the IMs concept, a vision that sees the sedan as existing in a quite different, all-electric “elevated” form.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 19, 2013

After an absence of more than 70 years, Detroit Electric is returning, with new plans to production electric cars. First established in 1907, the carmaker has ambitions to become Detroit’s four carmaker and the first to produce a fully electric sports car in Michigan.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2014

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. This is Green Car Reports'' video news for the week of.'

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The venerable Jeep Grand Cherokee, one of the longest-running SUV brands on the market, will be coming to the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit as an all-electric car. But it isn’t heading to Detroit as an official release on the Chrysler stand.

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