Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2020

AAA and Electrify America have partnered on an electric-car subscription venture in California. Under the program, AAA Car Subscription now has 55 2018 Volkswagen e-Golf hatchbacks available for long-term rental in Sacramento, the two companies announced via press release Tuesday.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. Hydropower station dam in Chengdu.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2017

The global debut of the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car is just a month away, and now another teaser image has been released. This one's a design sketch showing a drawing of the car's side profile, suitably shaded to obscure some of the details.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2018

When the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car was unveiled last fall, the company said it would have a range of "140 miles or more." DON'T MISS: 2018 Nissan Leaf. That had risen to "150 miles or more" by the end of last year, and now we have the final confirmed figure.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Electric cars keep getting cleaner, despite efforts by the EPA and NHTSA to roll back pollution standards on cars and powerplants. That's the conclusion of the latest report from the Union of Concerned Scientists which annually measures the environmental impact of driving an electric car.

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Cleaner Electric Cars 2018 EPA 146

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will start to appear at Nissan dealers in January, the company said Monday. That availability came in an announcement that the second-generation electric car officially went into production the same day at Nissan's sprawling assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2017

With the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car due to be unveiled to the world in Japan on September 6, the company continues to release bits and pieces of teaser information. It also provided a photo of the electric hatchback's rear corner, showing a very different taillight.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2017

While the 2018 BMW i3 will formally debut next week at the Frankfurt auto show, the company has released details ahead of time on the updates to the lineup of its compact electric car.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The simulcasted global events are over, the cars have been driven back out of the arenas, and electric-car fans are evaluating the new 2018 Nissan Leaf that was unveiled to the world last night.

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2018 Nissan Electric Cars Cars 117

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Meanwhile, electric-car shoppers waited eagerly for details of the 2018 Nissan Leaf, the second-generation car that finally premiered in early September. We've now driven both cars, and can take a high-level look at how they stack up against each.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

With the 2018 Nissan Leaf due to arrive at U.S. dealers in four or five months, next year is shaping up to be a very interesting test of what buyers want in battery-electric cars. Much of the focus has been on the new car's range rating, projected to be 150 miles combined when it's confirmed by the EPA.

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2018 Nissan Electric Cars Range 108

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

OK, now the 2018 Nissan Leaf has made its debut, and we know the prices, specifications, and standard and optional features of the updated electric car with a projected 150 miles of range. Deliveries of the 2018 Leaf will start early next year, but meanwhile the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has been on sale throughout the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

When visiting an automaker's proving ground to drive cars still under development, security is extensive. In late June, we drove a pre-production 2018 Nissan Leaf at the company's Tochigi Test.

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2018 Nissan Electric Cars Cars 120

Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2018

Now owners of the new 2018 Nissan Leaf are complaining that the car's "fast" charging is not always as fast as advertised. Owners have found that the car's electronic management software dials back charging speeds with each successive fast charge on any given trip. As Tesla has shown, not all fast charging is created equal.

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2018 Nissan Charging Electric Cars 118

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

After lavish launch events around the world, the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will go on sale next month in Japan and early next year in North America. The second generation of the world's best-selling electric car, however, faces a very different landscape than did its predecessor in December 2010.

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2018 Nissan Electric Cars Sale 97

Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2017

More Nissan Leaf electric cars were sold in 2014 than in any model year before or since, fully 30,000 of them. Now Nissan is offering to extend those leases—and in the process, it's given us a little more information on the upcoming 2018 Nissan Leaf. DON'T MISS: 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Volvo Cars is teaming up with Swedish steel maker SSAB to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel for use in the automotive industry. As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2018

It's one of the major questions for any electric-car buyer: How long will the battery pack last? Now a new video looks at that question, comparing the different thermal-management technologies in the batteries of the new 2018 Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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2018 Nissan Electric Cars 2017 118

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Volvo Cars successfully placed its first green bond, raising €500 million from a diverse group of institutional investors and further increasing the company’s financial flexibility. As a first tangible step towards its 2040 vision the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2019

The International Energy Agency reported on Tuesday that global warming emissions reached a record level in 2018, despite efforts in the U.S., Europe, and China to reduce emissions with more sales of electric cars and cleaner power. Greenhouse gas emissions increased faster in 2018 than during any of the past six years.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This evening, the 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will make its long-awaited debut at events in Tokyo, Las Vegas, and elsewhere around the world. The Leaf remains the world's highest-volume electric car, with more than 280,000 of the first-generation cars delivered since December 2011 (112,000 of those in the U.S.).

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Las Vegas 2018 Nissan Electric Cars 96

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Today, we have spy shots of the 2018 BMW i3 electric car, estimations of which automakers will lose their electric-car tax credits first, and an argument for liquid hydrogen as a replacement for jet fuel in airplanes. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Tax Credit Tax 2018 BMW 91

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

GAC R&D Center) introduced three co-developed electric concept cars at Auto Guangzhou 2018, featuring futuristic designs that address the diverse needs of China’s drivers. They also address the trend towards car sharing—one of the fastest growing urban mobility concepts worldwide.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Anticipated increases in electric-car production in 2018 and later now have battery suppliers scrambling to add manufacturing capacity. However, it is unclear which electric cars the new plant's lithium-ion cells are intended.

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2018 Hungary Electric Cars Lithium Ion 96

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

Nissan unveiled the Nissan Sylphy Zero Emission, Nissan’s first electric car made in China for Chinese consumers, at Auto China 2018 in Beijing. The car also includes Nissan Intelligent Mobility technologies such as Lane Departure Warning, Intelligent Emergency Braking, Rear Cross Traffic Alert and Blind Spot Warning.

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2018 Nissan China Auto 186

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Today, we've got a new state fee proposed for hybrids and electric cars, a 2018 Fiat 500e preview, a Tesla cross-country road trip, and a chart explaining the challenge for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The first generation of mass-priced electric cars with ranges of 60 to 90 miles simply didn't have enough range to be used outside predictable daily commute duties and local errands around town. Sure, four-fifths of vehicles in the U.S.

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Electric Cars 2018 Nissan Cars 117

Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2018

” That pair of sentences perfectly summarized the several hours we spent last month with the 2018 Tesla Model 3 kindly loaned to us by reader Jeff Southern of Atlanta. “The Tesla Model S was a moment. The Model 3 is a product.”

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2018 Miles Atlanta Tesla 130

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Today, we've got an unexpected and very specific safety issue in BMW i3 electric cars, a battery boost for a forgotten vehicle, a look at electric airplanes, and a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV preview. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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2018 BMW Electric Cars Sale 74

Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 31, 2021

Genesis teased a new concept electric car. Genesis a luxury car manufacturer has teased its upcoming electric coupe concept car ahead of its debut. In the teaser video, we can see the design of the car and it did mention introducing the Genesis X Concept and is believed to be an Essentia electric coupe. .

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2018

This past Tuesday, the 2018 Nissan Leaf—an entirely redesigned second generation of the pioneering electric car—officially went on sale in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The objective is to deliver 400,000 electric vehicles to the Chinese market in 2020 and 1.5 million electric vehicles in 2025. It is planned that the new joint venture with JAC should produce its first jointly developed electric vehicle in 2018. 11 brands of the Volkswagen Group are represented in China.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Even with solid increases, other electric-car sales paled in comparison with numbers from Tesla in September and for the third quarter of 2018. The next highest sellers, were the Chevrolet Bolt EV, with 3,949 sales from July to September, and the Nissan Leaf just behind with 3,767 for the quarter.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

If any electric car aside from the Tesla Model 3 can be called "long-awaited," it would be the redesigned 2018 Nissan Leaf. In the event, the second-generation Leaf has arrived as a 2018 model.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2017

Today, one of the better electric-car ideas we've seen in years, a Tesla question about music, a scientific controversy turned bitter, and a bit more information on the upcoming 2018 Nissan Leaf. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 3, 2017

Despite a slower-than-expected start, plug-in electric cars are gaining momentum on the North American market. Not only are sales rising, so is consumer interest: according to a survey by AAA, shoppers’ interest in electric and plug-in hybrid cars is now neck to neck with that of pickup trucks.

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