WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Three winners of Green Car Journal’s prestigious Green Car Awards have been announced at a Washington Auto Show press conference today in Washington DC. Named 2017 Connected Green Car of the Year? is the Mercedes-Benz C350e, with the 2017 Green SUV of the Year? awarded to the BMW X5 xDrive40e and the 2017 Luxury Green Car of the Year? to Acura’s new NSX. The awards were presented today during the auto show’s second Policy Day.

“Winners of the 2017 Green Car Awards? in Washington DC illustrate just how far the automotive market has advanced in recent years,” said Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal and CarsOfChange.com. “The desire for more efficient and environmentally positive vehicles has grown across the automotive spectrum, including in the luxury, connected, and SUV categories honored at the Washington Auto Show®. The auto industry has clearly stepped up in a big way to deliver the ‘greener’ models consumers want to buy.” The Mercedes-Benz C350e delivers all the luxury and driving enjoyment expected of the automaker’s popular C Class with the additional benefit of efficient plug-in hybrid power. The model combines its ‘green’ proclivity with this automaker’s most advanced connected and driver-assist technologies, with a fusion of on-board cameras and sensors providing autonomous and semi-autonomous features like adaptive cruis...