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Detroit 2008: More photos than you can shake a stick at

The Detroit Auto Show is open to the public this week. If you're the type of person who really wants to be there, but can't find the time or money to arrive, allow me to present you with a viable alternative. Sure, we already brought you news about the green cars that were revealed or are on display at the show, but sometimes you'd like to just aimlessly wander the aisles and see what you can find, right? If that sounds good to you, here's a way to do just that at your computer. Click on the gallery thumbnails below to begin a journey through ... Read more →

Cool videos of Mazda's Furai, the ethanol-fueled racing car concept Lascelles Linton

The first video below the fold is Mazda's Director of Design, Franz von Holzhausen talking about the Furai concept at the Detroit Auto Show. The Furai is a racing concept that runs on E100 (100 ...

Videos: Toyota's self-driving electric car, GM's paint shop goes green Lascelles Linton

Lori Harfenist, a really funny vlogger, was hired by GM to cover the Detroit Auto Show and she filed a report all about green stuff. You can watch Lori interview a GM's color and pigments designer, ...

Bob Lutz explains exactly why Volt delayed: batteries late, engineers want perfect software Lascelles Linton

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Detroit 2008: Bill Ford talks about hybrids, EcoBoost and sustainability Sebastian Blanco

During the Detroit Auto Show, a Ford press liaison invited AutoblogGreen and around a dozen other journalists to an on-the-record dinner to talk about sustainability and related topics. As a guy who ...

Jesse James to break land speed record in hydrogen car but says Gore is still "a dork" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/celebrity/Call_HIM_a_Treehugger_He_would_kick_my_a'; Michigan Live caught up with popular custom bike maker and host of Monster Garage, Jesse James, at the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday. Jesse was at AutoWeek's annual design forum awards dinner promoting recycling and ...

Detroit 2008: Dodge ZEO BEV concept live reveal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click the ZEO for a high-res gallery from Detroit The Dodge ZEO lies somewhere between it's Jeep and Chrysler concept siblings in aesthetic terms. Like its siblings, the ZEO gets drive torque exclusively from an electric motor, although this one relies entirely on electrons retrieved from an ...

Bob Lutz video: it's "immaterial" who's first on EVs, guarantees "internal" release date for Volt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above is GM chairman Bob Lutz eating a little crow on Bloomberg Television. In the past, Bob has said GM would beat Toyota by "a year" in the lithium-ion battery race. Now, that Toyota has said they will release lithium-ion plug-in hybrids ahead of GM's new EVs, Bob does not want to play ...

Detroit 2008: Volkswagen Passat CC to launch TSI engines in US market 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click the Passat CC for a high res gallery Volkswagen has been offering their 1.4L TSI engine range in several of their European models for the past several years but has yet to make them available in the U.S. The TSI engines are reduced displacement, turbocharged direct injection engines that offer ...

Detroit 2008: Mercedes-Benz E320 BlueTec is only sort of 50-state legal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back in October, Mercedes-Benz made something of a splash in California when they re-introduced the E320 to the California market. It was the first new diesel available in the state in over two years. However, it now appears that the E320 BlueTec is not actually technically legal in California or ...

Detroit 2008 videos: Coskata, GM, Ford 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above includes a chat with clean tech investor Vinod Khosla at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod Khosla has backed ethanol company Coskata, which announced a partnership with GM at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod says oil companies will get into the ethanol business because they are really energy ...

Detroit Auto Show videos: CNBC special at 9 PM EST, Toyota's A-Bat, Toyota President Jim Lentz 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If all of the AutoblogGreen coverage isn't enough for you, you can see all the new cars at the Detroit Auto Show, in a live, one-hour special tonight at 9 PM Est on CNBC. The video above is a close look at the interior and back of Toyota's concept hybrid truck, the A-Bat. WARNING: In the video ...

2008 Detroit: videos of the Dodge Ram Hemi hybrid, Chevy Volt, E85 Coupe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Yesterday we told you about what looked liked an early press release about the Dodge Ram Hemi hybrid. MSN Autos has great videos from the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, including this video which confirms the news that the Dodge Ram (as you can see in the screen grab above) will be made into a hybrid in ...

Bob Lutz has egg on his face: drivable Volt in June 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM-Volt.com is at the Detroit Auto Show and they write that Bob Lutz says a drivable Chevy Volt "looks more like June" and not Easter as had Bob promised. You might recall the post where Bob was quoted saying this: By the time the Easter Bunny delivers his or her first egg shipments we hope to have ...

Detroit 2008: Ford VP Jim Farley on the new Verve sedan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Verve for a gallery of high-res shots from the reveal The U.S. version of the Ford Verve Concept is unveiled in Detroit today. To mark the stateside debut of the European-based Verve concept, Ford released a few audio snippets from FoMoCo group vice president Jim Farley about the car. You ...

Does AFS Trinity's hybrid deserve the hype? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above is a news report about AFS Trinity Power's new hybrid from CNN. The New York Times has an article about the hybrid which will be at the Detroit Auto Show. Grist, a popular green blog, says they were interviewed for a report by CBS New that will air this weekend. Some of our readers ...

GM CEO: "Expect an announcement on the VUE plug-in hybrid very soon" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In his CES keynote, part of which you can watch above, General Motor's CEO Rick Wagoner hints that an announcement with the release date for GM's first plug-in hybrid is coming "very soon." GM told us the release date for Saturn Vue plug-in might be in the end of 2008 or "2009-ish" range. From what ...

Aston Martin launches E85-ready GT2 race Vantage 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Aston Martin is not a brand that's ever been associated with fuel efficiency or alternative fuels. However, at the Autosport International Show in Birmingham England next week, they will unveil their latest race car based on their "entry level" Vantage model. The GT2 class Vantage will come ...

Holy extensive gallery BAT(man)! Toyota's A-BAT fully revealed 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We've seen the first batch of pictures with the preview, the video and now we can go on A-Bat overload. Toyota has just released a slew of pictures of the A-Bat hybrid truck concept that will be on the stand at the Detroit Auto Show in the very near future. The bed of the unique-looking A-Bat can ...

Detroit Auto Show 2008 video preview: LRX, Land Rover's 40 MPG, diesel-electric concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above shows us an early look at the Land Rover "baby" LRX concept before it debuts at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show this month. The video includes Land Rover's design director Gerry McGovern saying the LRX "clearly conveys messages that we take sustainability seriously." The LRX is the ...

2008 Detroit Auto Show preview videos: A-BAT Toyota's hybrid concept truck, BMW X6 Active Hybrid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Above is a video all about the A-BAT, Toyota's hybrid concept truck, that will premiere at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. The video does not show the A-BAT driving around but it's still a nice look at the concept that just might be the star of the Detroit Auto Show. Some have said the truck is ugly ...

Land Rover LRX: will it include a hybrid powertrain? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As our colleagues from Autoblog have just published, Land Rover has a smaller and more compact concept vehicle, the LRX. While the vehicle should have remained a secret until a big unveil in Detroit next month, you can see it now thanks to German enthusiast mag Auto Motor und Sport. If the car ...

Detroit 2008 Preview: 2009 Ford F-150 could add hydraulic launch assist 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of Ford's most important debuts at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show is the new 2009 F-150. While Ford doesn't have a gas-electric hybrid system suitable for big trucks like GM's Two-Mode system, they will have offer some technology to improve fuel economy and emissions. Back in 2002 at the Detroit ...

Detroit Auto Show: Live Reveal of the Chevy Volt EV 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

GM product chief Robert Lutz unveils the Chevy Volt EV concept. Click on the image for a gallery of high-res shots including the interior GM Chairman Rick Wagoner and Vice-Chairman Robert Lutz just unveiled Chevy Volt Concept to the mass of press here at Cobo Hall. Although they didn't really ...

Detroit Auto Show: It's here. GM's plug-in hybrid is the Chevy Volt Concept 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

September 2008 Update: To see the production version of the Volt, click here. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Short_commute_You_ll_never_gas_up_with_GM_s_plug_in_hybrid_the_Chevy_Volt'; For several months now rumors have been rampant about an electric vehicle that General Motors would ...

Detroit Auto Show: General Motors' E-Flex platform 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In conjunction with the Detroit Auto Show introduction of the Chevrolet Volt concept, General Motors is also unveiling an entirely new vehicle architecture that they've dubbed "E-Flex". As the name implies E-Flex is a platform for electrically driven vehicles. The key to this platform, though, is ...


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