• The Detroit News, Monday, November 14, 2011 9:43 AM

Ford Motor Co. has chosen the 2012 International Consumers Electronics Show on Jan. 10 in Las Vegas to offer North Americans their first look at the Ford Evos concept, a plug-in hybrid with gullwing doors. The car made its global debut this fall at the Frankfurt auto show. Ford CEO Alan Mulally will be a speaker at CES for the fourth consecutive year.

The Evos was designed to telegraph the future of Ford global design, with a sleeker profile, smaller headlamps and a new design for the iconic blue oval. The design will influence Ford cars and crossovers for the next five years. Some design cues are expected to be on display in Detroit when Ford unveils the new Ford Fusion. But the Evos also provides a glimpse of future technology for Ford, including the use of cloud computing to better connect the driver and data in the car with the rest of their world via smartphones and other devices.

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