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Zipcar adds Prius plug-in hybrids

Car sharing service Zipcar will be adding Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids to its fleet.




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Video: Jane Lynch tries carpooling with Matthew Morrison

"Why do you have to sing everything like you just swallowed a pair of jazz hands?!"




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Justin Bieber says, 'Don't text and drive'

If a celebrity endorsement gets kids using a phone app that prevents on-the-road texting, emailing and phone use, who am I to complain? But, for the record, Jus



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Car sharing takes off in the U.S.

Personal car-sharing spreads in the U.S., from California to Oregon and, very soon, to a neighborhood near you. The concept of hiring out your own vehicle has p




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Eating while driving: A bad idea that will make you sick

Driving with a burger in one hand and a cellphone in the other is a sure recipe for highway disaster. And all that old food is hanging out, just waiting to give



  • Protection & Safety

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GM announces OnStar, RelayRides partnership

GM owners with an OnStar-equipped vehicle can earn some extra cash by renting out their autos.




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Avis and Zipcar get hitched as car sharing expands

Avis acquires zipcar, but what does it really mean?




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A greener Mexico City tries eco-transit

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7 carsharing and carpooling iPhone apps

Save money and reduce your carbon footprint when you use one of these 7 apps to organize a carpool or book a carshare ride.




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The 30-Day Electric Bike Challenge is calling: Get out of your car and onto an e-bike

Apply to the 30-Day Electric Bike Challenge and you could be selected to receive an e-bike for a month in exchange for swearing off the use of your car.




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Enterprise buys IGO CarSharing

Enterprise is expanding its carsharing services despite a company executive’s dismissal of the need for a separate carsharing industry.




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Millennials like hybrids, women like SUVs and self-driving cars get a collective 'meh'

Two new studies decipher who prefers which kind of car, revealing unexpected attitudes that challenge many assumptions.




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Plane, train or automobile: Which has the biggest footprint?

Which form of travel gives off the fewest emissions? Let's just say it pays to carpool.




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How to use your phone to share a ride

Uber and Lyft are both offering discounted ridesharing services. Today in San Francisco; tomorrow the world.




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Carsharing expands (with apologies to Uber)

Car2Go is now the world's largest service, with a million members and a new outpost in Brooklyn.




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Self-driving cars are everywhere at CES

Automakers like Volvo, VW, BMW, Audi and Mercedes are going full speed ahead, aiming for autonomous cars on the road by 2025.




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There's chaos in the streets of France as taxi drivers protest Uber

What is Uber anyway? Is it a taxi service or as it claims, a technology platform, or something else altogether?




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Why ride-sharing makes sense for millennials and baby boomers

A new report from KPMG sees 500 billion annual miles from people who might have otherwise stayed home.




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Gogoro's Smartscooter might scoot into North America sooner

You can now get a charge out of its new go-anywhere GoCharger.




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Seniors, not hipsters, will get self-driving cars first

Autonomous vehicles will be ready soon — to ferry retirees around closed communities.




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Indianapolis leads the way for electric vehicle fleets

The city fleet will have 425 Leafs, Volts and Energis on the road by early next year.




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Coming soon: A gyroscopically balanced electric commuter car

The Lit Motors C-1 can cruise 200 miles on a charge, and even a truck can't pull it over.




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First drive in the ultra-quiet Kia Soul EV

The Korean electric car is a credible competitor to the Nissan Leaf. It's affordable, too, so let's break the California-only barrier.




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Soon you can drive the cool electric car from 'Iron Man'

Audi’s R8 e-tron sports car is finally a reality — with almost 300 miles on a charge.




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The states where electric cars rule

Sales of plug-ins are a fraction of cars sold, but governments and industry are doing their part to make that number grow.




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Why low gas prices won't kill Tesla

The key question isn't why Tesla stock dipped below $200, but why GM and Ford are at $30 and $14.




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2015 Kia Soul EV is a smooth drive that won't overcharge your electric bill

The introduction of the 2015 Kia Soul EV brings the notion of a practical, affordable all-electric car closer to the driveway.




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Vroom! Vroom! Here come the electric car races

OK, the sound is more like "eeeeeee," but it's still exciting international action, and it's coming to the U.S. in March.




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The greenest cars: Electrics rule

Nine of the top 12 cars on the 2015 ACEEE list are either plug-ins or hybrids.




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Cold weather kills electric car range

When the weather outside is frightful, battery performance suffers.




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Introducing Rimac's Concept One electric supercar

These guys aren't shy about taking on Tesla, but first they need to ramp up the factory for this 1,088-horsepower, 200 mph electric from Croatia.




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Paris bans diesels (and restricts traffic)

The City of Lights is for lovers ... and pedestrians, bikers and transit riders.




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Electric cars can help cool our cities

By reducing the urban heat island effect, mass adoption of electric vehicles may even cut our air conditioning bills.




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Elon Musk's big bet on batteries

Next week Tesla will announce new home and utility solutions — but do they pencil out?




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4 insanely powerful and expensive electric cars

These plug-in supercars are big on sex appeal and horsepower — but you've never heard of the companies that make them.




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How do you get consumers to buy electric cars?

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Elon Musk's rocket ride: A biography of the world's most driven CEO

Running 2 groundbreaking companies at the same time, Musk succeeds by putting himself on the line more than anyone else, says author Ashlee Vance.




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Ex-Tesla exec puts his energy into electric buses

Proterra's new Catalyst is a lightweight, energy-efficient marvel with six times the efficiency of diesel.




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A 3-D printed car? You can buy one soon

Local Motors uses tech, crowdsourcing and design contests to create tomorrow's autos today.




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An electric car faster than Tesla?

Even under poor conditions, Venturi's 240 mph shakes things up at the Bonneville Salt Flats.




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Tesla unveils the self-driving Model S

A $2,500 download gets you a car that steers, brakes, accelerates and changes lanes.




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The electric supercar race is heating up

Tesla Motors gets some high-powered competition.




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In Tokyo, the future of cars is electric!

The big Japanese auto show is all about plug-in and hydrogen cars — and some even drive themselves.




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The age of the cheap electric car has arrived

EV prices are falling, range is rising, and there's free fuel to sweeten the pot.




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When will EVs get sounds to warn pedestrians? It's coming, but expect delays

And no, we won't be able to use ringtones. (There will likely be standardized noises.)




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Forget horsepower, Americans buy cars for the technology

As CES proves, the gadgets are more important than the color and the trim package.




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Rimac's electric really isn't a Tesla-killer

Rimac's Concept One is a $936,000 supercar made in Croatia, and only 8 will be built.




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Super-fast and electric are words of the week at Geneva Motor Show

Electric cars are really shooting off into the stratosphere, and it’s all Elon Musk can do to keep up.




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BMW's self-driving vision includes a virtual butler

BMW Vision Next 100




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Americans are trading in EVs ... for SUVs

Low gas prices, and crossovers with 30 mpg, mean that only a quarter of hybrid and electric buyers are getting another one.