5 Major Obstacles for Electric Vehicles in America
Sonata PHEV | Source: Hyundai A year is a long time in the world of electric vehicles. When we looked at the biggest problems facing EVs at the start of 2015, issues like image and cost still played a...
View Article5 Electric Vehicles Headlining the Best Sales Month Ever
Source: Tesla With most EV news centering around the Tesla Model 3 these days, we have to stop and remind ourselves that we’re not playing fantasy baseball here. Unlike Model 3, which some people hope...
View ArticleThe 5 Best-Selling Electric Vehicles From a Record April
The updated Model S | Source: Tesla If you like consistency, you are going to love the state of the electric vehicle market. EVs sold at record levels for the sixth straight month in April, a month in...
View Article5 Best-Selling Electric Cars From a Record June
Tesla Motors increased its dominance in the segment with two of the best-selling electric cars of June. | Source: Tesla If you want to see real milestones for electric vehicle sales, take a look at the...
View ArticleTesla Crushed the Pack in June Electric Vehicle Sales
Tesla Model S and X dominated June electric vehicle sales. | Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images There was a brief moment when the race for plug-in vehicle sales narrowed between the Chevy Volt and Tesla...
View Article7 Plug-In Hybrids With the Most Electric Range in 2016
Ford Fusion Energi has been among the plug-in hybrids with the most electric range since its debut. | Eric Schaal/Autos Cheat Sheet Plug-in hybrids offer a great product to consumers looking to reduce...
View ArticleAmerican-Made Electric Cars Dominate the Sales Charts
American-made electric cars like Tesla Model S and Model X dominate U.S. sales in 2016. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Americans are getting beat, they keep...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Car Engines for 2016
Source: BMW With another year having come and gone, it means that there is a whole new year of new powertrains and engines to look forward to. As auto technology progresses, so do propulsion systems,...
View ArticleHere’s Where All the Cheap Electric Vehicles Are
Nissan Leafs from the 2012 model year and older are the type of cheap electric vehicles on sale near L.A. | Source: Nissan The electric vehicle segment has been a tricky one to navigate in its first...
View ArticleWho Leads, Who Lags in Electric Cars in US? New Survey Names Them
Chevrolet Bolt | Chevrolet A major obstacle to widespread adoption of electric cars is that they’re not offered for sale everywhere. Collectively, automakers offer a significant number of all-electric...
View ArticleDoes the Chevy Bolt EV Make the Chevrolet Volt Irrelevant?
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV Sometime during the last three months of this year, the first 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be delivered to its buyer in a blaze of flash photography and publicity. The 200-mile...
View Article10 Great Concept Cars That Fell Short as Production Models
2007 Chevrolet Volt Concept | Chevrolet Just because an automaker hauls a concept car to an auto show doesn’t mean it will ever get made (we’re looking at you Cadillac Elmiraj, Nissan IDx, and Buick...
View Article5 Electric Vehicles That Drove an August Sales Record
The totals from August add up to another electric vehicle sales record | General Motors The records have been rolling in for the plug-in car segment in 2016. With the results from August in, there have...
View Article5 Electric Vehicles That Powered an All-Time Sales Record
Though Chevy Bolt EV should boost plug-ins to new highs, a new electric vehicle sales record was set in September | General Motors It will take a few more years and a few more long-range models before...
View ArticleHow Electric Cars Fared in Consumer Reports Reliability Tests
The latest electric car reliability ratings brought good and bad news | Miles Willis/Getty Images The brand new cars that auto journalists test tend to be glorified versions of the ones consumers buy....
View ArticleHow Chevrolet Volt Sales Crushed Tesla in October
After months of Tesla dominating, Chevrolet Volt sales got back in the plug-in race | General Motors We follow the electric vehicle sales race pretty closely here. Earlier in 2016, we even suggested...
View Article5 Best-Selling Electric Vehicles of October
Chevrolet Volt led the pack as Tesla deliveries dropped in October | David McNew/Getty Images In a year of record electric vehicle sales, you could look at the total from October 2016 (10,832 units)...
View Article6 Best-Selling Electric Vehicles From a Record November
Prius Prime landed in the top 6 in November electric vehicle sales in its first month on the US market | Toyota If you believe the electric vehicle sales trends of 2016, the coming year will set a new...
View Article10 Electric Vehicles That Topped the Sales Charts in 2016
Tesla’s two models dominated 2016 electric vehicle sales | Spencer Platt/Getty Images By any measure, 2016 was a huge year for electric car sales. First, the grand total of 159,139 deliveries (per...
View ArticleThe 2017 Chevy Volt Is the Hybrid That Will Finally Win You Over
2017 Chevrolet Volt | James Derek Sapienza/Autos Cheat Sheet You’re looking at one of the most important models in GM history. When the Volt concept debuted at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, it was the...
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