Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2018

Porsche has plans for not one, but two 911 hybrid variants for the next-generation sports car. A new report predicts that electric cars will exceed half the worldwide market by 2040. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. A reader checks in after living with two Chevrolet Bolt EVs for a year.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

What electric car, formerly called the Mission E concept, made its debut this past week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 6, 2019. It’s been a Porsche Taycan kind of week.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A Williams Hybrid Power flywheel energy storage unit is at the heart of the new Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid. The vehicle recently completed the 1,000km of Zhuhai in China ahead of all other GT cars with fewer stops for petrol.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2015

Today, we've got a report of a hatchback version of the new 2016 Chevrolet Cruze, potential differences between Tesla and Panasonic on electric-car battery development, and the end of the line for the Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid supercar. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Martin Winterkorn said that “ The Porsche Mission E and the Audi e-tron quattro concept are nothing less than a quantum leap for our industry ”—both vehicles have an all-electric range of 500 kilometers (311 miles). Wind noise is low on board the car, and there are no engine noises in an electric car in any case.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 12, 2015

Why did winter hurt the performance of one Porsche we drove? And what surprise did electric-car maker Tesla drop on us Wednesday morning? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, April 10, 2015. The Week In Reverse'

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) has approved its most expensive car yet to qualify for its Plug-in Car Grants. The world’s first plug-in hybrid from an established car brand in the executi[.]. Hybrid cars Porsche'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Executives say the 2015 Volvo XC90 plug-in hybrid may go on sale next summer, the 2014 MINI Cooper starts at $20,745, and President Obama promoted natural-gas fueling stations in Tuesday''s State of the Union Address. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Think of.'

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Today, we have a drive report on the 2016 Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid, details on stop-sale orders for Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen diesels, and information on Nissan's 200-mile electric-car battery pack. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2016

Today, an online configurator for all Tesla Model X variants appears, the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid scores well in crash tests, and BMW launches its ReachNow car-sharing service in Seattle. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show opens to the public today with a glittering display of green cars taking pride of place. The show, based at the Los Angeles Convention Center will host more than 30 significant world and North American debuts and feature more than 900 vehicles from sports cars and sedans to crossovers and minivans.

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2010

After its parallel full hybrid technology was featured in both the new Porsche Cayenne S and the new Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid, Bosch has outlined its commitment to electric vehicles and predicted a surge in market share.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 11, 2009

The future is green for Tesla Motors and its partner Daimler AG, as they plan to launch two plug-in electric vehicles in the near future. In an interview with the Green Car Advisor , Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk also said that Tesla would be replacing its current generation Roadster with a larger, four-seat sports car in 2013.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Last week, Porsche’s new Panamera SE-Hybrid became the most expensive car so far to qualify for the Office for Low Emission Vehicle’s (OLEV) consumer Plug-in Car Grants (PiCG) worth up to £5,000. Electric cars Hybrid cars Porsche The Green Piece'

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

More details at: Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO. The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric-car technology that most carmakers had dismissed as impractical until recently. Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO. Venture funds back green cars. by Reuters.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Hackenberg, the first-generation modular longitudinal matrix was used in 2007 for the A5, followed by the A4, A6, A7 Sportback, A8, Q5 and Q7 as well as the Porsche Macan. The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid drive is also an MQB vehicle, as are the Volkswagen brand's Golf GTE, Passat GTE and Tiguan GTE plug-in hybrids.

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2011

The Green Piece. Last week, luxury car maker Jaguar announced that it would be making one of its newest models a hybrid after confirming that its C-X75 hybrid model would be going into production (see article). Tuesday May 9, 2011.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

Volvo believes the principal of hybrid cars being exempt from the charge is outdated. The problem in the case of hybrid cars however, is that their emissions vary widely. DRIVe with start/stop technology (pictured below) emits a mere 104g/km of CO2 and was recently named as the What Car? Green Car of the Year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

The announcement is specifically for VW-branded vehicles and does not apply to other brands in the VW portfolio (Audi, Porsche, SEAT, Bentley, etc.). Volkswagen said it plans to spend about 16 billion euros ($19 billion) for investment in the future trends such as “e-mobility, hybridization and digitalization” by 2025.

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