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With electric trucks and SUVs coming, is it time to reevaluate what a green car means?

Green Car Reports

Over the past ten years, the green-car landscape has made progress in fits and starts. Since the 2011 Nissan Leaf that we named our original Best Car To Buy—rated at just 73 miles—electric cars have evolved rapidly. Lucid announced a model.

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Chevy Bolt EV payment, Hertz brakes on Tesla, two-wheel electric car: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A concept EV challenges the notion that electric cars need four wheels, or even three. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Hertz backs away from its ambitious EV plans. One company pushes ahead with plans for U.S.-made made solid-state cells. The 2020-2022.

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Toyota ranks last in global green car report, accused of anti-climate lobbying

The Driven EV News

The post Toyota ranks last in global green car report, accused of anti-climate lobbying appeared first on The Driven. Global report ranks Toyota at the bottom of the pile on decarbonisation, while another damning report exposes the carmaker’s anti-climate lobbying efforts.

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The Green Car Manifesto No One Asked For

CleanTechnica EVs

I want to talk about green cars that don't suck.

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Hyundai Ioniq 5: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist

Green Car Reports

Among all the new electric cars coming out this year, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the one that best shows that affordable EVs don’t have to look and feel like everything else. There’s room to reformat the car and mix in some rad cues from the past, without losing focus on a future that doesn’t involve tailpipe emissions.

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Lucid Air: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist

Green Car Reports

California’s Lucid has produced an electric car with an EPA-rated 520 miles—enough to beat the Tesla Model S in range and efficiency. That, in a car offering up to 1,111 hp, which exceeds the Plaid's 1,020 hp. And it can make shorter road-trip charging stops, with up to 300 miles restored in 20 minutes.

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Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023 finalist

Green Car Reports

The EQS SUV is related to the EQS hatchback that arrived late last year, and while it’s built on a version of the same EVA2 skateboard architecture as that flagship electric car, in many respects it’s a completely different vehicle—and more of a trendsetter in the U.S. vehicle market.

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