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Cadillac Optiq preview, $22,000 VW EV, hydrogen hybrid engines: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda commit to a new generation of engines. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2025 Cadillac Optiq EV arrives later this year, and Green Car Reports recently got up close with it. VW gets on board with affordable EVs. And Cadillac’s most affordable EV makes its debut.

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OECD paper presents and analyzes policies and programs to foster market growth of green cars

Green Car Congress

Given the specific barriers, suggests author Andrea Beltramello, there is a role for government to support the development and diffusion of green vehicles, including through policies to strengthen the markets for green cars.

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Finalist for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019: Tesla Model 3

Green Car Reports

Just 16 months passed from when Tesla first showed its Model 3—and we got our first ride in a Model 3 prototype with its VP of engineering Doug Field—to when it made the first batch of deliveries.

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Cadillac Optiq preview, $22,000 VW EV, hydrogen hybrid engines: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda commit to a new generation of engines. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2025 Cadillac Optiq EV arrives later this year, and Green Car Reports recently got up close with it. VW gets on board with affordable EVs. And Cadillac’s most affordable EV makes its debut.

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Polestar 2: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist

Green Car Reports

Take a performance heritage, a focus on sustainability, Swedish engineering at the core, and an interface that’s all about “Hey Google,” and you’ll end up with a beeline to the Polestar 2.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. Our nameless reviewer felt , back in 2006, that the Vue's panel gaps made it the "automotive equivalent of a shotgun shack" and calculated that the Green Line version would require 90,000 miles of driving with $2.15/gallon

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BMW i8 beats Mercedes S 500 PHEV, Golf GTE to win World Green Car award in New York

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The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) was named the World Green Car at the World Car Awards in New York. The BMW i8 was also one of the finalists in the category World Luxury Car at the World Car Awards. Its battery-electric sibling, the BMW i3, took the same award in 2014.

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