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First Compressed Natural Gas and Propane-Capable 2016 Ford F-150 Rolls Off the Line at Kansas City

First Compressed Natural Gas and Propane-Capable 2016 Ford F-150 Rolls Off the Line at Kansas City

The first 2016 Ford F-150 with the ability to run on clean-burning compressed natural gas has rolled off the assembly line, making Ford – America’s truck leader – the only manufacturer to offer a CNG/propane-capable half-ton pickup. “Whether running on gasoline, gaseous fuel or both, the 5.0-liter V ... Continue reading

Hyundai Motor Introduces IONIQ, the First Car to Offer a Choice of 3 Electrified Powertrains

Hyundai Motor Introduces IONIQ, the First Car to Offer a Choice of 3 Electrified Powertrains

Hyundai Motor has announced the name of its advanced, alternative-fuel compact vehicle due for launch in 2016: the Hyundai IONIQ. The car will be available with electric, plug-in gasoline/electric hybrid, or gasoline/electric hybrid powertrain – the first car from any manufacturer to offer customers these three po ... Continue reading

World's Largest Ultra-fast EV Charging Station Goes Live in Beijing, Fully Charging Commercial Vehicles in 10 Minutes

World's Largest Ultra-fast EV Charging Station Goes Live in Beijing, Fully Charging Commercial Vehicles in 10 Minutes

Equipped with Microvast's ultra-fast charging battery, a Foton electric bus stops by a charging point after a few loops of operation. Trained staff plug in the charger and within 10-15 minutes the electric bus's battery is refilled to maximum operating capacity and ready to go again. This now happens everyday in many b ... Continue reading

Green Light for Porsche Mission E +VIDEO

Green Light for Porsche Mission E +VIDEO

Porsche to invest around a billion euros - More than 1,000 new jobs Stuttgart. The first 100% electrically powered Porsche is on its way. The supervisory board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG today gave the green light for the Mission E project. ... Continue reading

Green Car Journal Announces Finalists for 2016 Green SUV of the Year

Green Car Journal Announces Finalists for 2016 Green SUV of the Year

Green Car Journal has announced its five finalists for the prestigious 2016 Green SUV of the Year™ award to be presented at the 2016 Washington Auto Show. Finalists include the BMW X1 xDrive28i, Honda HR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Mazda CX-3, and Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. "After years of focus on building more efficient and env ... Continue reading

More Powerful and Efficient: Audi R18 Celebrates World Premiere in Munich

More Powerful and Efficient: Audi R18 Celebrates World Premiere in Munich

New hybrid race car for the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours Unchanged driver line-up in the DTM High demand for new Audi R8 LMS GT3 sports car MUNICH -- November 30, 2015: The brand with the four rings will be entering the 2016 motorsport season with the most powerful and efficient race car Audi has ever built. The new Audi R18 ... Continue reading

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Named Plug-In Vehicle of the Year by the Scotsman

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Named Plug-In Vehicle of the Year by the Scotsman

Mitsubishi’s best-selling game-changer the Outlander PHEV has been named Plug-In Vehicle of the Year by Scotland’s national newspaper. The Scotsman, which has been testing one of the vehicles over the long term, said the world’s first 4x4 plug-in hybrid SUV had ‘lived up to its ecocredentials and im ... Continue reading

Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell Wins Innovation Award

Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell Wins Innovation Award

ix35 Fuel Cell awarded top place in Design/Innovation category, decided by members of the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers Innovative ix35 Fuel Cell was world’s first mass-produced Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Revolutionary SUV powered by hydrogen - emitting nothing but water HIGH WYCOMBE, UK -- November 27, ... Continue reading

New FIAT 500 wins City Car Award

New FIAT 500 wins City Car Award

The new FIAT 500 TwinAir 85hp has scooped the City Car Award in the Next Green Car Awards 2015. The Next Green Car judging panel praised that the revised look of the FIAT 500, which has successfully refreshed the iconic design that made the car such a success in the UK, while the new interior is complimented for its im ... Continue reading

Open Charge Alliance Advances International Standardization to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption Worldwide

Open Charge Alliance Advances International Standardization to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption Worldwide

OCA Selects OASIS as the Standard Development Organization for Electric Vehicle Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) AMSTERDAM -- November 25, 2015 ; The Open Charge Alliance (OCA), a global consortium of public and private electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure leaders, today announced it has chosen to standardize the Open ... Continue reading

Next Green Car Awards 2015

Next Green Car Awards 2015

Today sees the announcement of the winners for the Next Green Car Awards 2015, which recognises the UK’s best green cars for 2015. The winners of the Next Green Car Awards 2015 have been carefully selected from a green car shortlist featuring 44 new models competing across 10 categories (nine vehicle segments plus ... Continue reading

Nissan LEAF 30kWh EV Named Small Family Car at Next Green Car Awards

Nissan LEAF 30kWh EV Named Small Family Car at Next Green Car Awards

The latest version of Nissan’s 100% electric LEAF, the recently-launched, longer-range 30kWh model, has been named Best Small Family Car at the 2015 Next Green Car Awards – an award the previous generation model also received in 2013. The awards’ shortlisted models were selected according to Next Green C ... Continue reading

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV named SUV of the year at Next Green Car Awards

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV named SUV of the year at Next Green Car Awards

Mitsubishi Motors in the UK is celebrating again after the lauded Outlander PHEV picked up Next Green Car’s SUV of the Year. Next Green Car is a website dedicated to helping car buyers find, compare and purchase a greener, more economical car. The annual Next Green Car Awards identify the greenest and best new car ... Continue reading

All-New Renault Kadjar Wins Best Crossover at Next Green Car Awards

All-New Renault Kadjar Wins Best Crossover at Next Green Car Awards

Only two months after launching in the UK, the All-New Renault Kadjar is already picking up silverware, after collecting Best Crossover at the Next Green Car Awards. The brand-new family-sized crossover won the environmental prize after overcoming opposition from rivals including the Fiat 500X 1.6 MultiJet II, Honda HR ... Continue reading

EVgo Announces Three Major Partnerships In One Big Week

EVgo Announces Three Major Partnerships In One Big Week

EVgo (ee-vee-go) is charging forward and changing the game for EV drivers all over the country. In a week of major announcements coming at the LA Auto Show, EVgo added embedded charging programs with two of the world's largest auto makers and launched an association to make charging more accessible to all EV drivers. " ... Continue reading

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