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Electric Avenue display comes to 2010 Detroit Auto Show

While some of the automakers that skipped the 2009 Detroit Auto Show are apparently returning for 2010, there still won't be enough to fill up the basement. As a result, the EcoXperience exhibit will be back again for a second year. The landscaped track on the lower level of Cobo Hall will provide attendees the opportunity to try out a variety of electric drive vehicles.The last show featured the likes of the Mitsubishi iMiEv, Ford Escape PHEV, and GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox. Perhaps this year, Ford and Nissan will add the Focus and ... Read more →

Detroit 2010 Preview: good news for fans of the smelly basement forest Sebastian Blanco

The Detroit Auto Show, known officially as the North American International Auto Show, is always the biggest car show of the year. In 2009, though, the event wasn't quite as busy or as populated ...

At Witz' End: Detroit Auto Show: Reality Check - Part II Gary Witzenburg

In my first column reality checking the Detroit Auto Show, some of you questioned my assertion that even Toyota's relatively high-volume hybrids are probably not profitable. Of course, Toyota has ...

At Witz' End: Detroit Auto Show: Reality Check - Part I Gary Witzenburg

This year's Detroit North American International Auto Show (aka NAIAS) was easily the greenest ever, greener even than the evergreen Los Angeles show two months earlier. Several automakers (most ...

BMW X6 ActiveHybrid to arrive by year's end Frank Filipponio

One of the vehicles we expected to see in Detroit somehow missed our radar. The not-so-green BMW X6 ActiveHybrid was previewed in COBO and we somehow missed it. Sure we've seen pics of this sports ...

Detroit 2009: E85-powered Mustang, the HP2g, gearing up for the Auto X Prize 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Down in the basement (the smelly, smelly basement) of Cobo Hall at the Detroit Auto Show, we found Doug Pelmear and Jennifer Rodgers. They were sitting next to a car we didn't expect to see at the show, a 1987 Mustang. Why was the car there? Because Pelmear is still promoting his claim to get ...

Detroit 2009: Henrik Fisker talks about the future of the Karma, and a low-cost model 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

When we sat down with Henrik Fisker during the Detroit Auto Show, he acknowledged that many people didn't think his company would return for a second year. But, as we all saw, the company did return, and did so with a bang with the unveiling of the Karma S hardtop convertible. Braving the ...

Detroit 2009: Automotive X Prize status report 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

It wasn't all flashy new cars during the media days at the Detroit Auto Show last week. During our time in Cobo Hall, we sat down with Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Progressive Auto X Prize, to talk about where the AXP is right now. For those keeping track, we are about half-way between ...

Detroit 2009: College for Creative Studies students reimagine the car 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Vehicle models designed by students at the College For Creative Studies are on display at Cobo Hall as part of the Detroit Auto Show this year. Fanciful and outlandish, these models give an idea of what the automobile of the future could be like. That vehicle above, for example, is a redesigned ...

Detroit 2009: Fuel cells, a "promising solution," come to Cobo Hall 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Even though the SAE World Congress last year featured a seminar titled, "The Problems of Fuel Cell Commercialization," the SAE is putting a positive spin on fuel cells for the public at this year's Detroit Auto Show. Tomorrow, for example, the SAE International's A World In Motion program will ...

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