The Green Car of the Year is a Car of the Year award from the Green Car Journal.
The winner is selected by an 11-member panel comprising automotive and environmental experts. Invited jurors have included Mario Andretti; Carroll Shelby, Jay Leno, Carl Pope, Christopher Flavin, Jonathan Lash and Jean-Michel Cousteau.
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid was awarded the 2011 Green Car of the Year.
The 2013 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid was awarded the 2013 Green Car of the Year together with the EcoBoost gasoline engine option, and the conventional hybrid variant.
The 2014 BMW i3 was awarded the 2015 Green Car of the Year.
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid car that was manufactured by General Motors, and also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand and the Buick Velite 5 in China, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe. Volt production ended in February 2019.
2012 Chevrolet Volt
2011 Chevrolet Volt
Chevrolet Volt (left) and Chevrolet Cruze Eco (right)
Final production vehicle, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt