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Green Car Reports' top 10 greenest cars for 2019

Green Car Reports

Green Car Reports’ top 10 fuel-efficient vehicles all have one thing in common: plugs. Efficiency went further and farther for 2019 model-year vehicles in almost every sense of the two words. But where they go from there is anything but common among the vehicles.

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Honda CR-V fuel-cell, affordable Renault 5 EV, Fiat concepts: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

And Honda details another impressive-looking hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle, as infrastructure questions remain. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Honda has revealed the upcoming fuel-cell version of its Honda CR-V and, once again, it will only be. Renault brings back its hot hatch in affordable EV form.

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Fuel-cell Honda CR-V drive, Polestar 4 pricing, Ferrari and SK: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

And we review the fuel-cell version of the Honda CR-V. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Polestar 4 has a price. Ferrari’s teaming up with the battery supplier SK On.

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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. Timing and sequencing of energy technology policy. Source: OECD. Click to enlarge.

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China iCET releases 2014 Green Car China report ranking mainstream cars by green and health impacts

Green Car Congress

Only hybrids performed very well on both the green rating and the smog index. China’s Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) recently released its 2014 Green Car China Annual Report , an evaluation of mainstream vehicles on sale in China by their lifecycle impacts and their health impacts. Green rating.

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Why Green Car Reports Writes About Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars

Green Car Reports

It would seem pretty obvious that a site called Green Car Reports would cover zero-emission vehicles that will soon go on sale from major global automakers. But cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells turn out to be as controversial as plug-in electric cars, albeit for different reasons--and among different constituencies.

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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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