Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One of the challenges Clean Fleet Report takes seriously is to test the EPA fuel economy ratings for the cars, crossovers and trucks we review, knowing efficiency is a top priority when looking to purchase a new vehicle. But with the 2022 Kia Niro Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) we obliterated the “official” number in our real world driving.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 23, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We drive the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid, next year''s Chevy Impala replaces its mild hybrid with a start-stop system, and a Tesla owner visits a BMW dealer to drive an i3 electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2014

Car dealers maximize their profits by selling the highest number of cars at the highest possible prices in the least possible time. Plug-in electric cars are unfamiliar to most buyers, and require more explanation--sometimes a great deal more--along with specific types of support during and after the sale.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Early adopters, ecology-minded citizens and, increasingly, drivers who want very low running costs are now buying plug-in electric cars. But many have reported frustrations at the dealership, from a lack of interest to salespeople who actively steer them away from electrics toward gasoline cars. That much we know.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The stories abound: A car buyer walks into a dealership, educated about the electric car she wants to buy.and the salesperson tries to convince her she doesn''t want that car after all. She really wants a gasoline car, he argues.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Alfa Romeo’s first plug-in hybrid is built at the Giambattista Vico Stellantis plant in Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples, Italy – one of the company’s most advanced production sites. The Tonale will begin arriving at dealers in June. Alfa Romeo announced the official start of retail production for the all-new 2024 Tonale PHEV.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Oh, and could you get used to 32 miles of all-electric driving and 30+ mph when in hybrid mode? It was more than a hybrid—it was a plug-in hybrid. The plug means the 2021 Pacifica has a 32-mile all-electric driving range, which for most people is far more than they will drive in their daily routine. How It Works.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Today, we got January sales updates, Tesla Model S racing, some thoughts on taking back cities from cars, and dealers getting worried over electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. A racing.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Now an eight-year veteran on the Australian scene, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was the world’s first plug-in hybrid SUV. A new generation of the pioneering mid-sizer has just launched, with 45 per cent larger battery (now 20kWh), a pure electric range of up to 84km (NEDC), all-wheel-drive and seating for up to seven.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Electric cars worry traditional car dealerships. Tesla sells cars nationwide without dealers—even if buyers have to drive over state lines to get them in some cases. Electric cars eat into one of dealerships' main profit centers, service, because they don't need oil changes, spark plugs, or even air filters.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

With awareness of the 2014 BMW i3 battery-electric car starting to rise--it will arrive at dealers in late April or early May--it''s sometimes easy to forget that BMW has a second plug-in car following close behind.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

China-based BYD unveiled a full spectrum of electric passenger cars at the Internationale Automobilausstellung (IAA) in Munich: five all-electric cars and a sixth new energy model, the DENZA D9, an exclusive European premiere of the premium BYD sub-brand, DENZA. million NEV (plug-ins including plug-in hybrids) car sales.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Tiguan is currently the most successful Volkswagen with annual production of well over half a million units – now the new Tiguan is coming to the VW dealers. To coincide with its European market launch, the plug-in hybrid drives (eHybrid) are now available with two outputs (150 kW and 200 kW).

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2017

Electric-car owners and advocates have a tenuous relationship with the franchised independent car dealers who are the only legal way to buy a new vehicle in the U.S. Tesla excepted, if you want to buy a new car, you have to go to a dealership over which the carmaker has only limited control. Horror stories abound.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors continues its battle with car dealers, this time in Ohio. plug-in electric-car sales numbers for November, and some numbers for Norway, where 12 percent of new cars sold last month turned out to be electric. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Even as it considers launching Australia’s cheapest battery electric vehicle, Mitsubishi Australia is warning a slow roll-out of renewable energy will impact the uptake of EVs in Australia. The ek X is likely to be used in clinics with consumers, shown off to dealers and will potentially be loaned out to media for drive impressions. “I

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2017

Today, a rare Porsche plug-in hybrid surfaces, we've got the month's green-car deals, Tesla is battling car-dealer lobbyists (again!), and advocates take electric cars to Washington, D.C. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Ten years ago last month, the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 17, 2016

It's often said that franchised auto dealers are one of the bigger impediments to sales of plug-in electric cars. Vehicles with plugs require more explanation, the financial calculations are often more complicated, and home and public charging stations add a further layer of complication.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There''s more Tesla news today (of course), with the electric-car company winning a court battle to sell cars in Massachusetts but facing a grim prediction by one analyst of its Model 3 price three years now now. Plus the smallest Mercedes is flying out of dealers, and a new French plug-in hybrid offers clues to future Nissans.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2012

But buried toward the bottom of its current press releases on all three of its plug-in electric cars is a sentence that notes, "The all-new C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid begins arriving this fall at EV Certified Ford dealers in 19 markets."

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As many electric-car buyers will tell you, franchised auto dealers can pose a large and tedious impediment to actually buying the plug-in car you want. Now Audi has told its.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2016

Greater electric-car adoption requires both dealers and carmakers to be strongly committed to selling plug-in vehicles. Years of anecdotal evidence from shoppers shows such commitments are often lacking—and that has now been confirmed in a wide-reaching report issued by the Sierra Club.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 12, 2017

Ah, local car-dealer ads on television. DON'T MISS: This family has 2 Chevy Bolt EV electric cars, uses no. You've likely seen them, usually during the local ad minute on national shows, often late at night or in the cheaper slots.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If you were a car dealer, would you decide not to sell a plug-in electric car because you had to buy a $5,000 tool to service it? We didn't think so.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Today, we've got a pair of articles on the Tesla Model 3, including a poll; a quiet but important electric-range boost for the 2018 Volvo XC90 T8; and some (more) bad news about car dealers. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The USPS is.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Green cars can''t help reduce emissions or save gasoline if no one buys them. sales of plug-in hybrids and electric cars have been strong in some areas, but weak in others--and it may be because dealers are emphasizing green too much. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In just five months, more than 3,100 BMW i3 electric cars have been delivered to U.S. That''s a fast pace out of the box, and it indicates that BMW is serious about plug-in electric cars in a way that many other major automakers aren''t.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2017

The Toyota Prius Prime is a far better car than its plug-in hybrid predecessor, and it seems likely to become one of the higher-volume plug-in electric cars on the U.S. If, that is, Toyota's own dealers prove willing to sell it—or even find out that it exists.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Included in the Solterra’s price is a free five-year service plan, five years of roadside assistance, a set of carpets, a cargo tray and a 2kW AC charging cable with a 10-amp wall plug. Subaru slashes $8000 off Solterra electric car, but it’s still more expensive than Tesla Model Y appeared first on EV Central.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Canada's first three Chevrolet Bolt EVs were registered in October, no doubt for media test-drives and dealership training ahead of the 238-mile electric car's Canadian launch. dealers, their counterparts north of the border will clearly.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

will install a network of intelligent charging points at the home addresses of owners of the new Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid and at all Toyota dealers in the Netherlands. The company expects to install between 1,300 and 2,500 charging points at the homes of owners in 2012, and 117 double charging points at Toyota dealers.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2014

Depending on where you live, there may be certain electric cars that aren''t available at your local dealer. chief Jason Stoicevich said the 500e plug-in car.' For buyers outside California, that''s been the case with the Fiat 500e--but it will soon become available in a second state.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2013

You see it all over: the meme that "electric cars are a sales failure." Yet California is experiencing shortages of electric cars, with many dealers saying they''ve entirely sold out of plug-in electric cars. So are electric cars.'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hyundai introduced its refreshed IONIQ car lineup in a North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. IONIQ Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid and Electric cars all receive refreshed exterior and interior designs, added infotainment technology and new Hyundai SmartSense active safety features and driving assistance systems.

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EV Central

MAY 7, 2024

Fresh data reveals used electric vehicles are now in high demand as buyers look to cash in on low retained values and tax benefits related to novated leasing. days to sell in March through dealers. percent of used cars sold were EVs,” Odgers warned. This is the first time EVs have featured on the list, let alone topped it.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A major challenge for electric-car advocates is finding enthusiastic dealers who are willing to put in the effort to explain and promote them.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2015

It''s long been known that getting some car dealerships to sell plug-in electric cars can be a challenge. Politics sales dealers Chevy Volt Tesla Motors New car sales Dealership plug-in cars state laws' Politics sales dealers Chevy Volt Tesla Motors New car sales Dealership plug-in cars state laws'

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