Honda built its original reputation around affordable small cars like its Civic.  Yet decades on, segueing into an era of EVs, it has no battery-electric equivalent to the Civic. As Honda’s global CEO alluded this past week in a Q&A with Green Car Reports and various automotive and tech media at CES, it doesn’t see…

Porsche reports that its global car sales during the fourth quarter of 2023 amounted to 77,499 (down 12% year-over-year), while the total volume in 2023 reached 320,221 (up 3.3% year-over-year). Meanwhile, sales of the all-electric Porsche Taycan (all versions: Taycan, Taycan Cross Turismo, and Taycan GTS) significantly improved in the second part of the…

The Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Cupra, and more) reports 2,524,100 global vehicle sales during the fourth quarter of 2023 (up 14.4% year-over-year). The total volume in 2023 amounted to 9,239,500 (up 11.8% year-over-year), close to the 2020 level (9.3 million). In terms of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales, the company…

Mercedes-Benz reports 72,313 car sales in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2023 (excluding commercial vans), which is 1% less than a year ago. In 2023, the company sold 282,229 cars, a result that meant sales were down 1.6% year-over-year. At the same time, Mercedes-Benz all-electric car sales are booming, reaching new…

EVs could help drive down electricity rates by better-utilizing grid infrastructure, according to three recent studies summarized by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), an energy-policy advocacy organization. These studies describe a shift to a higher, but better-distributed electricity load that makes better use of infrastructure and thus more consistently covers the costs…

The conflicts in the Red Sea area and attacks on transport vessels are starting to affect the European economy, which sources components from Asia. According to Reuters, Tesla announced that it will have to suspend most of its electric car production at the Tesla Giga Berlin-Brandenburg plant in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany for two…

Audi global car sales during the fourth quarter of 2023 increased by 20% year-over-year to 508,600, while the full-year result amounted to 1,895,240, rebounding by 17.4% to the highest level in a few years. More importantly, all-electric cars are starting to account for about a tenth of the company's global sales volume. …

Here's a nice Friday surprise for any muscle car fans out there wondering if an electric future has anything in for them: the first pre-production photos of the car that's expected to be called the 2025 Dodge Charger have emerged. And it looks extremely close to the excellent Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept that's been making…

In December, new passenger car registrations in Germany amounted to 241,883, which is a significant 23% drop compared to a year ago. In 2023, 2,844,609 new cars were registered (up 7.3%). However, after a surprising elimination of generous incentives for all-electric cars ($4,930 / 4,500 euro), which was applied on December 17, the EV…

How soon is the revamped Tesla Model 3 Highland arriving in the U.S.? Which company spent more of its CES presentation talking about gaming, TV, and movies than the EV it’s helping make? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 12, 2024.…