• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The CarGurus Blog

Daily coverage of the world of cars.

  • Cars for Sale
  • Car News
  • Tech + Cars
  • Industry Insights
  • Research
  • Video

EVs

We Tried City Living with an Electric Car

May 1, 2020 by Matt Smith

2020 Nissan Leaf SL Plus front-quarter view, charging door open.

Range anxiety remains a major impediment to the widespread adoption of the electric car. After all, America is a big place, and plenty of us see more than 200 miles of highway every week. But imagine, for a moment, that you’re living in a city, taking public transit to and from work, and rarely driving far from home. Maybe you want a car for your trip to the grocery store once a week, to visit your brother 20 miles away, or to take Max to the good dog park—the one in the next town over. If any of this sounds familiar, you may look at an electric car and think, “Hey, that’s not a bad idea.”

[Read more…] about We Tried City Living with an Electric Car

Filed Under: Editor's Picks, Foreign Cars, General Chat, Green Updates, United States Tagged With: EVs, Nissan Leaf

Feeling Green? Our Top 10 Environmentally Friendly Used Vehicles

Last updated: Sep 20, 2019 at 11:17AM
Published on: Apr 8, 2016 by John Harrington

2013 Tesla Model S

Tesla made some serious waves last week when it debuted its Model 3 electric car. These weren’t your “gently lapping the shoreline” waves, either. Think “Laird Hamilton monstrous big-time waves.” We’re a data-driven, internet-focused company, so to demonstrate this point, we ran some basic Google searches. “Chevrolet Bolt” (the Model 3’s most direct competitor, and a car set to beat it to market by almost 2 years) returned 2.3 million results. “Nissan Leaf” (by and large the most popular electric car currently on sale) yields 4.9 million results. “Tesla Model 3?” 90.4 million results. So yeah… tidal waves.

Continue reading >>>

Filed Under: Car Lists, Car Shopping Tagged With: BMW 3 Series, BMW i3, Chevrolet Volt, EVs, ford c-max, green cars, Green vehicles, honda accord hybrid, hybrids, Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, Nissan Leaf, Tesla model 3, Tesla Model S, Toyota Prius Plug-in, Toyota Prius Prime

Primary Sidebar

Cars for Sale

Screenshot of CarGurus.com homepage showing search functionality, menus, and imagery.

Footer

Copyright © 2005 – 2021 CarGurus, Inc. All Rights Reserved

CarGurus, 121 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

 

Copyright © 2025 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in