Detroit Auto Show Focuses on Green Cars

Posted: Jan. 12, 2009 11:01:00 a.m.

The North American International Auto Show has opened in Detroit, and the message the auto industry would like to send is clear: we're going green.

USA Today reports, "Automakers are gambling that there's a market for electric-power cars, even as gas prices drop." In the show's first weekend, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler all "unveiled concepts and future production vehicles powered primarily by plug-in batteries. And a Toyota executive said it will bring such electric cars to ...