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Electric Vehicle Growth Is Pushing Material Needs When most people think about easy ways to reduce their carbon footprint, one of the most common suggestions is to replace their gas-guzzling daily driver with an electric vehicle. Buying an EV is relatively easy, if a bit more expensive than an internal combustion engine car or truck, but

Three Steps To Saving the Planet In Your Car This article may contain affiliate links As a society, we are becoming increasingly aware of our need to protect the planet. Each and every one of us has a responsibility to lead a more eco-friendly lifestyle, and now is the perfect time to start. There are

America’s Best-Selling Truck Is Now All-New and All-Electric Ford says the all-new, all-electric 2022 F-150 Lighting is “the truck of the future.” If so, then the future looks bright in many ways. Ford plans to lead in vehicle electrification by committing $22 billion to electrifying its cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks through 2025. The first

A Premium Small SUV with Handling Like a Sports Wagon The all-new 2022 Genesis GV70 slots in just below the larger GV80 SUV, both of which will be joined soon by the all-electric GV60. Clean Fleet Report would not be surprised if Genesis has even more SUVs on the drawing board, with most of them

Finding Free Is the Key To Low-Cost EVing I’m not sure why, but my news feed seems to be full of stories about how it’s often more expensive to charge an EV than one thinks, often times costing more than the gas equivalent vehicle. Why this is, I have no clue, but there are lots

It’s as Easy as 1, 2…8   This article may contain affiliate links. According to Statista, there were 89,400 cars robberies in 2020/21 and, overall, January is the most difficult month for vehicle crime. While many luxury vehicles come equipped with additional security, there is still a risk of being hacked by tech-savvy robbers. On

Something for Everyone When Kia says the 2023 Sportage is all-new, believe them. But it is more than a larger and more capable Sportage, now in its fifth generation and Kia’s longest-running model, but one that offers three propulsion systems, including the X-Pro trail-rated model for those who want to go off-roading. Kia recently invited

You Can Become a Specialist in the Mechanics’ World This article may contain affiliate links. If you own a car, you probably had to visit a mechanic’s shop at one point. However, there are different types of mechanics. This article will look at three kinds of mechanics, their work profile and the requirement to become

Subaru’s All-New, All-Electric Compact SUV The all-new, all-electric 2023 Solterra compact SUV is a major step for Subaru, one that will be a welcome addition for its loyal owners. Joining the SUV lineup of Crosstrek, Forester, Outback and Ascent, the Solterra is not Subaru’s first model with a plug as the Crosstrek Plug-in Hybrid Electric

Finding a Loan as Eco-friendly as Your Car Buying or leasing a new car is always an expensive proposition. However, drivers who choose an electric vehicle or other eco-friendly model that offers lower emissions may be able to save some money with a green auto loan. What are green auto loans? Let’s explore the answer

Would You Believe a “Sport Adventure Vehicle”? Take the Hyundai Tucson compact crossover, replace the rear section with a truck bed, and voilà…the Hyundai Santa Cruz is born! But as with most things that seem simple on the surface, going from a crossover body to pickup body is a bit more complex, not the least

Plant Produces Model Y Now, Cybertruck Next Year Tesla Model Y at Cyber Rodeo For those keeping score, mark 2X on the Tesla game card for March-April 2022. The 2X indicates the rough doubling of production capacity by the company with the opening of new plants in Germany and Texas. As with most things Tesla, both

Breaking Into the EV World The 2023 BZ4X small SUV is the first-ever mass production all-electric vehicle from Toyota. It joins the line-up of cars and SUVs powered by hybrid, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technology that have made Toyota the world leader in electrified vehicles. The BZ4X will be sold throughout the world,

Like Nothing Else On the Road Which 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup truck do you want to own? The one in WTF mode (Watts To Freedom in GM’s sanitized parlance) that takes the 9,200-pound pickup 0-60 mph in three seconds? Or the one that, with all-wheel steering, delivers a completely different off-road experience from a

EVs Are Low Maintenance, But Still Need Care Switching to an electric vehicle has a spectrum of benefits. In addition to being environmentally friendly, they reduce fuel expenses, improve your image and eliminate some maintenance concerns. However, they run through tires faster than conventional vehicles. Regular tires wear out roughly 20% faster on an EV

US regulators need to stop attempting to silence Elon Musk. TechCrunch recently reported that US securities regulators said that they have the authority to subpoena the Tesla CEO about his tweets and are pressuring a federal judge to not let Elon “get away with tweeting with abandon.” Earlier this year, Elon Musk called the actions

Escaping High Fuel Prices; a Natural Bridge to an EV The 2022 Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) is powered by a 2.5-liter non-turbocharged, 4-cylinder engine that produces 165 horsepower by itself, but when adding-in the motor generator that number increases to 200 hp. Running on 87 octane, the front wheels (all-wheel drive is

California Mobility Center Helps Companies Contribute to States Transportation Transformation Walking into the California Mobility Center’s first anniversary meeting, you might be struck by the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed energy of the men and women of a wide range of ages and their infectious enthusiasm for what they were presenting. But if you stepped back and went

Museum Exhibit Review: 107 Years of Electric Cars With the recent technological advancements and increased adoption of electric cars, SUVs and trucks, it is lost on most people that electricity was an early popular propulsion system for cars. This development began in the early 1800s throughout Europe, leading to the first commercially available American vehicle

Beyond Pavement into Nature Mazda has added another SUV to their lineup. The all-new 2023 CX-50 joins the CX-30, CX-5, and CX-9. This past week in Santa Barbara, Mazda invited the automotive media to drive the CX-50 on the highway, twisty mountain roads and then off-road to experience soft sand, steep climbs and descents. This

Fleet Electrification Drives the Need for Changes This year, the United States will begin to see an accelerated adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) for last-mile delivery, maintenance and service, freight hauling and public transit fleets; a positive trend, but one that will place additional stress on the grid. Critical stakeholders–utilities, system operators, fleet operators, vehicle

Driverless Tractor Designed to Increase Productivity Farming’s gone through several revolutions over the millennia. First, humans alone tilled the soil. Then they added animals and implements to increase productivity. Finally, machines appeared to move production to new levels. The latest will happen this year when John Deere puts its green-and-yellow fully autonomous tractor on sale.

The emerging consensus around zero emission mobility is that battery-electric vehicles will command the personal transportation market well into the future. Nevertheless, some of the world’s leading automakers continue to promote hydrogen fuel cell electric cars and SUVs. That’s a real head-scratcher, but BMW’s messaging for its iX5 Hydrogen SUV could provide some insights into

Welcome To Your First Pickup Truck When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup, it was after driving it for about five hours. We came away impressed with what Ford had created. That was in October 2021. Five months later in February 2022, after spending a full week in the Maverick,

Classics Continue But New Kinds of Electric Muscle Are Hitting the Highway Cars are a necessity in today’s world. Just about everyone uses a car to get from point A to point B. The truth of the matter is, however, that there isn’t just one kind of car. People often debate the merits of different

A Quick Look at What Is on the Electric Horizon Roll Call Faraday Future FF 91 Jeep EV Kia EV9 Lexus EV Sports Car Mullen 5 Polestar Precept Polestar 02 Sony Vision-S If you’ve been napping the past couple months and missed these concepts, you may have missed a glimpse of the future of electric

Comparing Repair Costs for EVs, Hybrids, Gas Cars To find the right vehicle can be an uphill task. You should carefully consider several factors. They include upfront price, maintenance costs, environmental implications, fuel consumption and more. When hybrids first arrived 20 years ago, finding a mechanic was a challenge There are also several types of

Electric Campervans for Future Focused Touring As we move towards a future focused more on electric rather than gas and diesel there is an uptick in companies providing options for eco-travel and plugin options. The leaders appear to be in Europe, but we suspect a U.S. contingent will follow soon.  Here are five electric options

California’s the First State to Hit One Million EVs And I’m one those million since they’re counting plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) as well as full battery electrics. I think that’s fair since on a good day my 3 ½-year-old Chevrolet Volt has a 61-mile all-electric range, roughly comparable to a used Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e.

Top-Selling Lexus Hybrid Sedan Adds Sporty Styling Lexus offers three different size sedans for 2022, the IS, ES and LS; the midsize ES is the best-seller of the group. Clean Fleet Report gladly took the keys to a 2022 ES 300h F Sport, which is the first time the F Sport treatment has been offered