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Green-car demand stalls for July as Tesla prepares Model 3 deliveries
- Danny King
- Aug 3, 2017
Hybrid and plug-in sales growth from U.S. automakers fall off, offsetting gains from Nissan and Honda.
US green-car sales rise 15 percent in May spurred by strong plug-in demand
- Danny King
- Jun 5, 2017
Ford, General Motors and Tesla all boost plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales for May.
Green grow the EV and hybrid sales in April
- Danny King
- May 4, 2017
US automakers General Motors and Ford lead gains as Americans buy more hybrids and plug-ins.
March 2017: The green-sales-are-still-charged-up edition
- Danny King
- Apr 10, 2017
US green car sales rose 20 percent from a year earlier thanks to higher plug-in vehicle demand.
December: The-happy-holidays edition
- Danny King
- Jan 8, 2017
US green-car sales jump 23 percent from a year earlier, while plug-in vehicle demand rises 61 percent.
Tesla unbundles all sorts of features to qualify for German EV incentives
- Danny King
- Nov 11, 2016
Navigation, backup camera, memory seats are now optional on German's Model S.
October green car sales: The that's-more-like-it edition [UPDATE]
- Danny King
- Nov 3, 2016
GM, Nissan and Tesla gains are offset by Toyota's hybrid-sales declines in October.
Henrik Fisker teases more images of Emotion luxury electric vehicle
- Danny King
- Oct 31, 2016
Fisker's new company touts electric vehicle with a 400-mile single-charge range.
Mercedes EQ name trademark may be for EV sub-brand
- Joel Stocksdale
- Aug 11, 2016
Mercedes prepares to tackle the premium electric vehicle market with a new name.
Nissan experimenting with car sharing, electric cars
- Joel Stocksdale
- Aug 2, 2016
The future of the auto industry is electric cars that we share and use as mobile storage batteries.
Mercedes-Benz GLC plug-in hydrogen fuel-cell coming in 2017
- Danny King
- Jun 13, 2016
Mercedes-Benz will offer a plug-in hydrogen fuel-cell GLC compact crossover starting next year.
Audi CEO announces new electrified car each year starting in 2018
- Brandon Turkus
- May 12, 2016
Audi CEO Rupert Stadler dropped two big bombshells at the company's Annual General Meeting.
Tesla Model S is Canada's best-selling plug-in for Q1
- Danny King
- May 10, 2016
Tesla Model S sales in Canada jump in March, and leapfrog Chevrolet Volt's for the first-quarter lead.
Ford wants 25% of models to be hybrids, plug-ins in China
- Danny King
- Apr 26, 2016
Ford looks to meet China's emissions mandate, receive incentives, by broadening its advanced-powertrain fleet.
Ford's EV Consumer Satisfaction Survey | Autoblog Minute
- Autoblog Staff
- Aug 19, 2015
Ford commissioned a survey of 10,000 electric vehicle owners, posing the following question: What would will you buy next?
BMW i3 called 'most revolutionary car' since Ford Model T
- Danny King
- Jan 16, 2015
Tear-down expert Munro & Associates analyzes BMW i3 plug-in and finds enough there to call it the best-engineered car in decades. Since the Ford Model T, in fact.
Porsche planning more plug-ins
- Noah Joseph
- Jan 5, 2015
Without getting into specifics, Porsche's marketing chief has indicated that more plug-in hybrids are in store for the German automaker. But just which model or models will be the next to plug into the grid?
For Audi, Quattro name means something for hydrogen cars, too
- Danny King
- Dec 5, 2014
Forget Dueling Banjos. Audi is proposing "Dueling Motors" for its Audi A7 Sportback H-Tron Quattro concept vehicle. All in the name of appropriate pickup, of course.
Volkswagen charges up new Passat GTE for the trip to Paris
- Noah Joseph
- Sep 29, 2014
We all know that the letters GT stand for Gran Turismo, but tacking on another letter can evoke a different meaning altogether. GTO for Ferraris (or Pontiacs), GT-R for Nissan supercars, GTA for high-performance Alfa Romeos (or car-theft video games, or metropolitan Toronto)... The list goes on and on, but few are as familiar with the idea as Volkswagen, which uses the letters GTI for hot hatches, GTD for their diesel counterparts, and most recently, GTE for plug-in hybrids.
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