Car Prices Capped, Many PHEVs Dropped, Rebates Reduced California’s popular clean car rebate program has been significantly altered, with tighter restrictions on which vehicles are eligible for rebates and lower rebate amounts for most buyers. The most dramatic of the…
Mazda is finally entering the EV market with the MX-30, a five-seat crossover-styled hatchback that launches next year in Japan and Europe with a U.S. variant to follow. The sporty EV debuted at the Tokyo auto show this week. Mazda…
Californians have long enjoyed a special perk when buying hybrid cars: The hybrid battery warranty is longer than offered most in other states. Toyota is changing that, announcing this week that for all electrified cars from the 2020 model year…
A RAV4 with a plug and an all new Mirai with rear-wheel drive and Lexus looks and about 400 miles of range are coming from Toyota. The company famously has promised that every model in its lineup with have an…
Headlight Glare Costs Chevy Bolt a Top Rating Tesla’s Model 3 and Audi’s e- tron EVs and Hyundai’s Nexo fuel-cell electric crossover won the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s top award – giving lie to recent White House claims that…
COMMENTARY Well, the Trump Administration has gone and undone it – revoked California’s right to set its own tougher-than-federal rules limiting vehicular pollution. I say the state’s “right” because it was, in fact, a right granted by an act of…
Hyundai’s new electric race car, the Veloster N ETCR, is the highly modified touring coupe we thought it might be. [Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.] The company pulled the covers off of its first battery-powered racer at the Frankfurt auto…
North Americans won’t get the new electric car from Volkswagen, but we’re talking about it because the VW ID.3 EV hatchback is a portend of things to come when the German automaker brings the larger members of its ID family…
Hyundai is giving its 2020 Ioniq EV a big battery boost – in Europe at least – along with faster charging capability and a bump up in horsepower. The Ioniq EV is on display at the Frankfurt auto show this…
Taking that extra step to show the world it is all-in on electric cars, Hyundai is planning to unveil its first electric race car at the Frankfurt auto show on Sept. 10. Automakers traditionally use racing as a test lab…