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2015 Volkswagen Golf: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2015

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Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever.

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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019: Tesla Model 3

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The Tesla Model 3 is Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2019. ” But that was the Model S—the shock to an auto industry that had dismissed its very premise. It’s the second time a Tesla product has won our annual award, which was captured by the Tesla Model S in 2013.

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Ford developing a strategy to address urban personal mobility globally; a mobility company, not just an auto company

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If Ford thinks of itself as a mobility company, rather than just an auto company, said Ford Chairman Bill Ford at the recent, second annual “Go Further with Ford” trend conference, “ that really opens up possibilities.”. Because it’s not just autos, and not just tech, it’s urban planners. I’m not sure we’ll be the integrator.

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BMW i8 beats Mercedes S 500 PHEV, Golf GTE to win World Green Car award in New York

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The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) was named the World Green Car at the World Car Awards in New York. The BMW i8 was also one of the finalists in the category World Luxury Car at the World Car Awards. Its battery-electric sibling, the BMW i3, took the same award in 2014.

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All-electric Audi e-tron Sportback concept teased for Shanghai auto show

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The Shanghai auto show is shaping up to be a showcase for all the green cars and concepts that were absent from last week's New York auto show. Among them is a concept for a "four-door coupe" version of the Audi e-tron all-electric SUV that'll go into production sometime next year.

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Grove Hydrogen Automotive and State Government of Minas Gerais Brazil announce hydrogen vehicle cooperation program

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Grove is focused on establishing sustainable mobility worldwide, and in Minas Gerais we have the partner and the location to create green cars as what we are currently doing in China. At the Shanghai Auto Show, Grove showed two new hydrogen fuel cell vehicles destined for production in the near term. Obsidian Sport.

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Geneva auto show green car preview: concepts, electric cars, new models

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Media days at the huge and influential Geneva show are March 6 and March 7, and this year it looks like the show will offer a lot of news for plug-in electric car fans. Several significant new production cars powered entirely by batteries are expected to make their debuts.