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Green Car Congress is an independent news and analysis website based in Mill Valley, California, that covers technologies, issues, and policies related to sustainable transport. In the field of American environmental journalism, Green Car Congress is known for its breadth of coverage, and for making technical sustainable transportation research accessible to a wide audience.

History
Former networking consultant and analyst Mike Millikin launched the site in 2004, and serves as its publisher and editor. Millikin has said the model for his Green Car Congress website was early PC-based publications that presented emerging technical information to buyers, consumers, businesses, and researchers in a way that helped accelerate innovation, which is what he wanted to do for automobiles.

Content
Green Car Congress publishes daily articles about a wide range of topics related to sustainable mobility. Millikin writes about corporate, technological, academic, political, and research news and also provides analysis. The site translates technical and academic language from research developments into terms that make them understandable to a general readership. Examples include ethanol production, regenerative suspension systems, batteries, and fuel cells.

Recognition
Millikin and his website have a reputation among environmentalists and journalists who cover the transportation beat as being an authoritative source of sustainable transportation news, data, and analysis.

In their chapter on cars and fuel for the 2008 book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, co-authors Alex Steffen and Al Gore wrote that Green Car Congress is "the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek."

From 2008 to 2009, reporter and lead writer Keith Johnson cited Green Car Congress coverage in the Wall Street Journal blog Environmental Capital. Starting in December 2018, the Wall Street Journal newsletter the Daily Shot about market trends began featuring data from Green Car Congress.

A 2009 National Renewable Energy Laboratory technical report on fuel savings from hybrid electric vehicles referenced 28 Green Car Congress articles from 2004 and 2005, giving them the same weight as data from government agencies that included the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The report concluded at the time, "Although HEVs are relatively new to the U.S. market, they have the potential to significantly reduce the amount of oil we import for use in light-duty vehicles."

Treehugger called Green Car Congress "basically the reference when it comes to green transportation" in 2005 and named it the "Best Transportation Website" in 2011.