We've heard of automakers cobbling together cars with hardware store-grade wood before, but this is a new one. Meet Honda's newest tool for dealers to service the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX SUVs: a pair of 4x4x8 wooden posts. Yes, you read that correctly. Honda is sending dealers a pair of wooden posts, much…
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This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 22, 2023.
In a first drive of the BMW…
Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai and Genesis brands) global vehicle sales in November amounted to 365,576, which is 5.0% more than a year ago. Year-to-date, the company sold over 3.8 million vehicles (up 7.6% year-over-year). Unfortunately, November did not bring any progress on the electrification front as the numbers were very similar to the ones…
Electric scooters have been through quite a roller coaster ride in recent years. From being the darlings of the e-mobility space to pretty much becoming outcasts in many parts of the world, the electric scooter story can be considered tragic for some, with e-scooter sharing company Bird being the latest casualty of changing micromobility preferences.…
Now that the rules around the changing electric vehicle tax credits have been finalized, we know more about what cars will and won't qualify for them come Jan. 1, 2024. For now, at least, quite a few models from General Motors, Ford and even Tesla will lose their credits. GM said yesterday it expects the…
This certainly isn't true of all of them, but broadly speaking, a lot of U.S. car dealers aren’t exactly jumping at the opportunity to sell electric cars. Much like American consumers, it appears a good chunk of them have some hangups in these early days. Around half of the country’s Ford dealers have decided…
The all-new, 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV model, based on the General Motors' Ultium platform, recently entered the U.S. market. The final offer changed compared to the initial announcement from mid-2022, as the least expensive, $45,000 version has been dropped, and the prices have increased. The Chevrolet Blazer EV also entered the market slightly later…
For a time early in 2024, the Chevy Bolt EV may be the only EV from GM qualifying for the full EV tax credit.
Yes, that’s a model now out of production and set to be increasingly difficult to find at dealerships in 2024.
GM did say that the Chevrolet Blazer EV and Cadillac…
We’ve been seeing a lot of new performance-oriented electric bikes at low prices from manufacturers looking to make e-biking more accessible to a wide range of cyclists. We previously talked about the ultra affordable Ride1Up CF Racer, which offers a full-carbon fiber road/gravel bike at an irresistible price. This time around, Decathlon, through its Van…
Lexus is adding a less-expensive, longer-range version of its RZ electric crossover for the 2024 model year.
Called the RZ 300e, the new variant gets a single-motor front-wheel drive powertrain and 72.8-kwh CATL battery pack, versus the dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain and 71.4-kwh pack from Prime Planet Energy (a joint venture of Panasonic and Lexus…