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Green Cars in Spotlight at Detroit Auto Show

NPR | By Anthony Brooks

Published January 13, 2008 at 8:00 AM EST

The North American International Auto Show opens this week in Detroit, following a bruising year for American car companies, which lost billions of dollars. U.S. car makers are hoping that a new commitment to green technology will help move them toward recovery.

Over the past few years the show has been transformed into a competition where the major automakers try to out-green each other. But it's easier to display a concept car than to actually deliver it at a price that consumers can afford.

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Anthony Brooks

Anthony Brooks has more than twenty five years of experience in public radio, working as a producer, editor, reporter, and most recently, as a fill-in host for NPR. For years, Brooks has worked as a Boston-based reporter for NPR, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, criminal justice, and urban affairs. He has also covered higher education for NPR, and during the 2000 presidential election he was one of NPR's lead political reporters, covering the campaign from the early primaries through the Supreme Court's Bush V. Gore ruling. His reports have been heard for many years on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.