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Toyota energy storage, Mercedes EQB details, Ford CEO on EV shakeout: Today’s Car News

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Mercedes puts a price on its EQB electric SUV. And Ford’s CEO sees EVs as the spark for a big industry consolidation. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Is the auto industry headed for a big shakeout, and a price war over EVs? In a financial.

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Auto Industry's MPG Report Card, Dealer Dilemma, GM Mid-Size Pickups: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: The auto industry is making good progress in meeting gas-mileage goals, why dealers are a bottleneck for electric-car sales, and the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks are on their way to showrooms. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid $249 lease tops June plug-in, hybrid, electric car deals

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Although the cheap low-interest or no-interest financing deals for new vehicles have mostly gone away, as the auto industry recalibrates supply to a new coronavirus-recovery norm for demand, many of them are still good through June in the green-car sector—leading to some standout deals for electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hybrid vehicles. (..)

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Finalist for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018: Hyundai Ioniq

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Hyundai is known in the auto industry as an aggressive and very capable competitor, and the world's largest makers watch it closely and take it very seriously. The company didn't introduce its first hybrid car in the U.S. until 2011 and, frankly, that year's hybrid Sonata sedan wasn't very good.

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Reality check: CHAdeMO fast-charging stations still outnumber CCS ones

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Five years ago, a frequent matter of debate here at Green Car Reports was whether CCS or ChAdeMO would become the electric-car DC fast-charging standard of choice in the U.S. auto industry behind it—and then the Korean industry joining later—was.

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2017 electric-car sales (and insurance), auto-industry moaning, grid holds up just fine: Today's Car News

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Today, sales reports are coming in for last year—electric cars did well—and we explain why auto-company whining is nothing new. Also, fossil fuels aren't the only source of climate chance, and we look at plug-in car insurance rates. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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China to crack down on green-car subsidy cheating: report

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Over the past few years, both national and state Chinese governments have heavily subsidized electric cars in an aggressive attempt to promote mass adoption. Electric cars are seen as an important way to combat the country's notorious air pollution, and develop the domestic auto industry.