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Photo: Burst In 2012, the Obama Administration set up historic regulations that required automakers to increase their cars’ and light-duty trucks’ fuel economy ratings to 54.5 mpg by the year 2025. This week, the Trump Administration announced they plan to overturn those requirements in favor of a lower fuel economy minimum, a move we saw coming a few…

New Ford of Canada CEO Bev Goodman Photo: Ford March is Women’s History Month, but Bev Goodman made history a whole month earlier. Goodman in February became the second woman in the history of Ford Motor Company of Canada to become CEO. Ford dealers are excited about the company’s newest leader — not just because…

Photo: Chevrolet The much-beloved Chevrolet Impala is officially no more. After announcing its discontinuation some time ago, the final model rolled off of the assembly line at General Motor’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant around 8:30 this morning, according to a report by the Detroit Free Press. Get it while you can: The 2020 Chevrolet Impala The end…

GM needs more Bolt EVs to keep up with global demand The rise of the Chevy Bolt has been both surprising and swift. It didn’t take long at all for the Bolt to overtake the Volt as Chevrolet’s signature EV. Indeed, the demand for the Chevrolet Bolt is so high that General Motors is reportedly…

When it comes to electric cars, one argument against their potential success in particular always seems to show up: somewhere in the comment section will be some sort of variation on the despairing protest, “The grid can’t handle all those energy-sucking cars! If all the cars were electric now, we just couldn’t possibly cope!” “FEED…

It’s hard to like electric cars when you live in Ohio. This is because, like most of the United States, Ohio is not California. Thanks to its aggressive air quality and zero-emissions vehicle sales laws, California has rapidly become the hottest market in the country two buy an electric car in, influencing emissions policies in…

Photo: © General Motors If I were to think of the dirtiest (emissions-wise) vehicle I could think of, my first thought would almost certainly be some sort of huge diesel-burning, smokestack-bedecked, smog-spewing monstrosity. However, according to a recent interview that GM’s vice president of propulsion, Dan Nicholson, gave with Green Car Reports, I shouldn’t necessarily…

The Toyota Prius C is the fastest-selling late-model used car, according to a new study If you’re shopping for a used hybrid or electric car and find one you like, don’t wait too long to buy it. According to a new study, these vehicles sell faster than any other used models. In a ranking by…

Electric cars have always been plagued by a specter haunting the origins of battery materials, as the world’s main source of a major ingredient in current lithium-ion batteries from those used in cell phones to those in an electric car, the rare mineral cobalt, is mainly mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which…