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Electric Ford F-Series, Lincoln crossover, Tesla charger, Chinese minivan: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

And Chinese automaker GAC showed a U.S.-designed All this and more on Green Car Reports. Ford plans to build an all-electric F-series truck. Lincoln's making electric "elegant." Tesla has released a new portable Level 2 home charger. designed concept at the Detroit auto show.

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Tesla layoffs, US-built VW electric car, an electrified Detroit: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which Chinese automaker showed an electric minivan in Detroit? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 18, 2019. What upcoming SUV will underpin a new "elegant" electric from Lincoln?

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Chinese company expands overseas

Green Cars News

The latest edition of our Green Piece Column looked at the ‘ones to watch’ in the green car race – but perhaps there is another new name that could make a serious impact in the motoring world. It is a significant step as Chinese automakers begin to establish themselves as serious competitors in the new automotive age.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Of all the ‘upstart’ green car companies, Tesla is the closest to breaking out into the mainstream. Fisker Automotive.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Malcolm Bricklin] said a working proof of concept would be built in six months and that the cars would be in production by 2009.

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