Low gas prices and Americans’ love affair with SUVs is killing several hybrids as Toyota prepares to end production of the U.S. version of the Prius V “wagon” and Ford says farewell to the U.S. versions of its C-Max. [Estimated…
Car dealers and EV shoppers apparently aren’t mixing well yet. More than three years after a landmark study by California university researchers found that the state’s EV shoppers were poorly served by most car dealers, a broader study of dealerships…
Honda Motor Co. has set the starting price of the new Clarity PHEV, or plug-in hybrid vehicle, at $34,290 in standard trim, $37,490 in the upscale Touring trim. Because of its relatively large battery, the midsize, 5-seat Clarity PHEV sedan…
NOTE: Congress has approved and the president has signed into law an income tax bill that retains the present federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles. The federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles, popularly known as the EV tax credit, would…
Crossovers are all the rage and Toyota knows when to join the parade. Thus the 2019 Prius V is morphing from hybrid wagon to hybrid crossover utility vehicle (CUV), if spy photos coming out of Germany are to be believed. (UPDATE,…
Plug-in hybrid SUVs keeping coming, with the latest a pair of Range Rover PHEVs from Land Rover – the Range Rover P400e and Range Rover Sport P400e. Both Range Rover PHEVs are slated for a U.S. introduction next summer, as…
A lot of people still seem to think electrified cars and trucks are a passing fad, but don’t count the crystal ball gazers at many of the world’s major automakers – Ford and General Motors most recently – in that…
Honda is launching the redesigned 2018 Accord this month – but not the new Accord Hybrid, which has to wait until early in the actual 2018 calendar year for its debut. [Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute, 30 seconds.] Still, the…
The 2018 Honda Clarity Plug In Hybrid has received an EPA all-electric range rating of up to 47 miles. That’s the best of any midsize plug-in hybrid sedan and third-best of all PHEVs in the market, behind the compact BMW…
Making things easier to do always helps with public acceptance and EV charging giant ChargePoint has added a “tap-to-charge” payment function to its network of more than 40,000 public plug-in vehicle chargers in the U.S. and Canada. The company hopes…