In Europe, once 'green' plug-in hybrid cars now look like dinosaurs
EU policy plans for plug-in hybrid vehicles could mean the "transition" technology has a shorter lifespan than envisaged by carmakers.
While we're waiting for electric cars to fully charge, how about hybrids?
Investors have run up the stock prices of electric car companies and their valuations far higher than the businesses really warrant.
Can Japan shift gears fast enough to ban gas cars by 2035?
Any plan to phase out sales of new petrol-fueled vehicles by the mid 2030s will have a major effect on the nation's auto sector — the pillar of Japan's industrial might.
Many conventional automakers are mulling their options, trying to decide which technologies will reign in the decades between now and a full transition away from combustion engines.
Japan considering emissions trade system for carmakers as it eyes carbon neutrality
Under the system, an upper limit on emissions will be set for each automaker. If this exceeds the limit, the firm will be able to buy quotas off others.
Toyota Motor Corp. has launched the Corolla Cross SUV in Vietnam, its first hybrid vehicle to be sold in the Southeast Asian country. Toyota Motor Vietnam Co., the automaker's local manufacturing and sales unit, said Wednesday it will import the latest SUV model from Thailand, ...
Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday started selling its first plug-in hybrid SUV in Japan as it looks to commit more to the electric vehicle market. The new RAV4, loaded with a newly developed high-powered motor that provides a longer range and better acceleration than its ...
Tesla barely registers in Japan, the world's third-largest auto market
For all of Elon Musk’s domination of the burgeoning electric vehicle business, Tesla Inc. is struggling to get traction in Japan, a market he put on a pedestal early in the automaker’s early days. The day after taking the electric carmaker public in June 2010, ...
U.K. carmakers press Boris Johnson to fund pledge to end gasoline era by 2035
Automakers in the U.K. are pressing for government funding to meet a new goal of killing off combustion cars by 2035, even as demand for electric models is surging. The U.K. will ban the sale of new gasoline, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035, five ...
Japanese hybrids beating slump in China's car market
China's once-in-a-generation car slump is hobbling carmakers around the globe that placed their bets on what is the world's biggest auto market. But one group is weathering the slowdown unscathed: Japanese automakers. Iconic car companies like Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. are increasing ...
