Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

BASF will showcase some of its key automotive technology products, both existing and under development, at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. Among those will be the world’s first full plastic wheel concept that shows high potential for mass production, made from BASF's impact-resistant specialty polyamide Ultramid Structure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2016

Lexus brought the all-wheel drive hydrogen fuel cell LF-FC flagship concept, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2015 ( earlier post ), to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit for its North American premiere. The LC 500, derived from the LF-LC concept, is powered by a proven, high-revving 5.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2017

BUZZ microbus concept into production. Volkswagen presented the concept at the Detroit Auto Show in January. After the presentations at the global motor shows in Detroit and Geneva, we received a large number of letters and emails from customers who said, 'please build this car’. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2019

China-based GAC Motor introduced the ENTRANZE EV concept vehicle at the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The versatile 7-person ENTRANZE EV represents the first concept vehicle from the new California-based GAC Design Studio.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Subaru brought its gull-wing Hybrid Tourer Concept, first introduced at the Tokyo Motor Show last year ( earlier post ) to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to highlight its announcement that it will develop a gas/electric hybrid system based on the boxer engine for launch in 2012. Powering the Hybrid Tourer is a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Daimler will introduce the smart for-us “urban pickup” electric concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2012.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

and Verizon Telematics, are supporting the launch of “Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit”—a startup business accelerator program sited in downtown Detroit. Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit will run for three years with a new class of 10 startups each year. Ford, Magna International Inc. —Bill Ford.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

GM will build the Cadillac ELR, a luxury coupe featuring extended-range electric technology, at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, General Motors North America President Mark Reuss said Tuesday. The ELR is the production version of Cadillac’s Converj, a concept vehicle revealed at the North American International Auto Show in 2009.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Honda has teased the first image of a new concept car, due at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. The 'Urban SUV Concept' will make its debut at Detroit in January, hinting at the look of a small SUV designed for city driving. Honda says it combines "a sporty and dynamic SUV profile with a spacious, functional interior".

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Volkswagen is presenting a fully autonomous, electric Microbus concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Pilot”) and a new generation of display elements and controls, the concept conceptually follows the new Volkswagen brand strategy. The overall concept of the I.D. Like the compact I.D.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ram Trucks, the US truck arm of global automaker Stellantis , took the wraps off what it called the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept truck on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Paradigm breaker’ plug-in hybrid to come.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2013

Powertrain of the CrossBlue SUV PHEV concept. Volkswagen unveiled the CrossBlue SUV concept at the North American International Auto Show. The CrossBlue concept. Volkswagen also showed a Cross Coupé compact SUV concept equipped with a similar powertrain concept, showing the extent of the MQB’s modularity.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2014

This year''s Detroit Auto Show is a little light on truly green car content, so most attention will instead turn to downsized engines and vehicles offering subtle improvements in fuel economy.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

And today at the Detroit auto show the brand previewed the direction of a future electric Infiniti SUV—and the brand—with the QX Inspiration concept. The future of Infiniti is electric.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2016

When the 2017 Volkswagen Tiguan was unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show last fall, a plug-in hybrid concept was among the featured variants. But now Volkswagen is showing a second Tiguan plug-in hybrid concept at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, hinting that the production Tiguan may in.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2013

At the Detroit Auto Show, Volkswagen showed not just one but two concepts with diesel plug-in hybrid powertrains. VW not only unveiled its CrossBlue Concept for a mid-size seven-passenger crossover, it also showed the CrossCoupe Concept it had premiered last year at the Beijing Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Volkswagen is unveiling the Tiguan GTE Active Concept plug-in hybrid at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Tiguan GTE concept. The Tiguan GTE Active Concept uses a 6-speed dual-clutch (DSG) automatic transmission that was specially designed for hybrid use, with the front electric motor being housed inside the casing.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 22, 2015

isn't going to see a shred of snow over the Christmas holidays, and Detroit in early January isn't looking too green either. Thus far, we know of just a handful of concept cars and new production models that could be described as green to be revealed or displayed at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show. The Northeastern U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2012

It wouldn't be an auto show without concept cars, and the Detroit Auto Show this year has its share. From Volkswagen comes a new take on a familiar shape: the Volkswagen E-Bugster, an all-electric two-seat coupe version of its iconic Beetle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Lincoln introduced the MKC Concept, a vision of how Lincoln will enter the small luxury utility segment, which grew nearly 60% in 2012 and more than 200% in the last four—the fastest growing segment of the luxury market. The MKC Concept builds on the foundation of the Lincoln Design found in the new MKZ.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Nissan shows an electric coupe concept with a creative cyberpunk edge, just as the Cybertruck gets a delivery date of November 30. The Detroit-based startup Grounded on. An electric RV is grounded on GM’s Ultium platform. And why are more drivers of non-Tesla EVs returning to gasoline models?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Audi will show a new crossover concept at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show in January. Nothing surprising there you might think--Audi has a crossover concept for just about every month of the year. But this one is a little different, as it wears a badge on its flank we''ve seen before: e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

Infiniti unveiled its Q Inspiration Concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Q Inspiration Concept is meant to demonstrate future technologies and will not be available for sale. It is the first manifestation of INFINITI’s new form language for an era of advanced powertrains.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2013

If the 2013 Detroit Auto Show has been rather light on truly green vehicles, concepts previewing the replacement of bread and butter models have been much more exciting. One of those is the Toyota Furia Concept, paving the way for the 2014 Toyota Corolla compact car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept. At the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Volvo Car Corporation will unveil the Volvo XC60 gasoline-electric Plug-in Hybrid Concept. The engine in the XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept has no conventional starter motor or alternator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) and Russia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The first 2022 GMC HUMMER EV Pickup Edition 1 exits Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. BrightDrop delivers the first five of 500 electric light commercial vehicles to FedEx, the first customer to the receive the EV600s, which are the fastest built vehicles, from concept to market, in General Motors history.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2013

Honda promised last month that its Urban SUV Concept would debut at Detroit, and the sporty, Fit-based crossover you see here is the result. If you wanted a Nissan Juke before, you probably won't want one now. Hinting at a production model due in 2014, the Urban SUV is a whole nine inches shorter than the Honda CR-V, at just 169.3

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2017

GAC appeared this week at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show with three vehicles, including an electric car and a concept plug-in hybrid. China is now the world's largest new-car market, but no native Chinese manufacturers sell passenger cars in the U.S. At least one of those manufacturers is at least considering having a go at the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2012

While the bulk of our green car coverage from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show will concentrate on production models, concept cars can be just as exciting.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2013

Honda unveiled its “Urban SUV Concept” vehicle at the 2013 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The concept hints at the styling direction of an all-new small SUV slated to launch in Japan by the end of 2013, followed by the US market in 2014. Urban SUV Concept. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2014

The important global auto shows tend to go in waves, and this year''s Detroit Auto Show isn''t looking particularly notable for its green cars. Barring surprises, there will be no global debuts of new plug-in electric cars, hybrids, or even new diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2013

Luxury brands have been expanding into smaller vehicles for a while now, and the Lincoln MKC Concept unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show continues that trend. The smallest member so far of Ford's struggling lxuury brand has been the MKZ mid-size sedan, but the compact crossover concept shows the brand will go smaller.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2018

On Thursday, a concept version of what will be the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid sedan was unveiled before its public debut at next week's Detroit auto show. Any new hybrid car from one of the pioneers of hybrid-electric vehicles is notable, and that's what Honda has delivered.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2011

As we count down the days to the Detroit Auto Show media preview (24 days from today), the announcements of new cars and concepts are now coming in regularly. Evoking Honda's logo release yesterday, Nissan says it will show off an "innovative electric van concept" without providing either details or.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The Audi h-tron quattro concept combines an Audi fifth-generation fuel cell stack delivering up to 110 kW with a power-optimized 1.8

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2014

It''s a time-honored auto-show tradition, picking the best new cars and concepts in the show. While this year''s Detroit Auto Show had very few cars that could genuinely be viewed as "green," we''ve nonetheless picked both our favorite production car and our favorite concept.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

At the Detroit auto show, Nissan today revealed the IMs concept, a vision that sees the sedan as existing in a quite different, all-electric “elevated” form.

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