The big discussions and highlights at the Detroit Auto Show later this month will be green, hybrids, and more green!  Toyota will be debuting a concept version of a battery-powered electric vehicle and its redesigned 2009 Toyota Prius hybrid.  General Motors and Ford will have hybrid vehicles that will be a “core part of the vehicles” they display at the show.  Honda will be unveiling it’s Honda Insight hybrid.  GM says that their Chevrolet Volt  will take center stage at the show. 

Another green aspect of the Detroit show will be the test track for green vehicles.  It will be a 70,000 square foot test track inside the Michigan Hall.  According to an article on autoweek.com, there will be about 12 vehicles available to journalists to drive during the auto show’s press preview, and consumers can drive in them as well.  This track will be available because according to Rod Alberts, the NAIAS executive director, says that “no other time is more critical for the nearly 6000 international journalists of the world to see the future and strategy of the automobile industry.”  The future is in green vehicles, so I’m not surprised that this will be the highlight at the Detroit Auto Show.   

 

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