You'd think a car like the Cadillac Provoq would debut at the Detroit Auto Show. Instead, it came out at CES. Still, NAIAS attendees got a chance to see the hydrogen plug-in car roll onto the stage here in Cobo Hall, and now you can, too, in the video above. There wasn't anything new announced RE this vehicle in Detroit, but Bob Lutz did admit that the Easter Bunny won't be bringing drivable Chevy Volts (see here for context).

The video above is an exclusive look at the Cadillac Provoq concept. It was taken just before Rick Wagoner showed off the concept in his keynote at CES yesterday. As you probably know by now, the Provoq is based on GM'e E-Flex platform and has a 300-mile range, in wheel electric "hub" motors, hydrogen fuel cells and a top speed of over 100 MPH. At the end, some questions about sources of hydrogen and regulation were sneaked in but they were skillfully dodged. Apparently, "production of hydrogen" is not a problem and "sooner the better" for more regulations so GM "can do the right thing." Where's Bob Lutz when you need him?

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[Source: Market Watch]

Click on the Provoq concept for a high-res gallery from the reveal

On Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner became the first auto executive to deliver a keynote address in the 41-year history of the show. After coming onto the stage in last year's Volt concept he began by running down some of the many innovations the auto industry has produced over the last century from the electric self-starter to the catalytic converter to electronic stability control. With all the electronic wizardry in modern cars, the automobile has essentially become the largest consumer electronics device in history. As such, Wagoner used this forum to publicly debut the Cadillac Provoq concept. We live-blogged the speech over on Autoblog and we got a chance to shoot a few pics of the vehicle although the CES security guards wouldn't let us on stage for our usual barrage. You can also read the full text of the speech here.

Click the Cadillac Provoq for a high-res gallery

Almost a year to the day after we first showed you the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors is unveiling the third body style (the second was the Opel Flextreme) based on the E-Flex platform that forms the basis of the Volt. This time around they are moving the architecture to a more up-market vehicle. The Cadillac Provoq concept is a luxury mid-size crossover built on a variant of the fuel cell drive-train that GM first showed in the Volt at the 2007 Shanghai Motor Show.

A few months ago some stories started circulating that Volt would get badged as a Cadillac instead of a Chevrolet so that they could justify a higher price to cover the high cost of the battery pack. Subsequently, the story evolved so that the fuel cell powered E-Flex variant would be the vehicle with a Caddie badge. Based on what we saw at the E-Flex design studio a couple of weeks ago and this new concept, it now appears that this latter story may turn out to be reality. Read on after the jump to find out all about the Cadillac Provoq advanced technology concept.

[Source: General Motors]

What does it mean to Provoq if you're Caddilac? We'll find out the details sometime in the next 24 hours, but GM released a statement today (available after the jump) saying that the Provoq concept will be "a vision for a petroleum-free future of luxury transportation." I guess that leaves us with two options: battery-only or hydrogen fuel cell. My money's on fuel cell, and we can guess that this is some Caddy evolution of the E-Flex platform (there have been rumors of this, even though they were strongly denied by GM). GM CEO Rick Wagoner will unveil the Provoq at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas tomorrow before the Provoq comes to Detroit next week.

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• Fuel-Cell E-Flex could get badged as a Cadillac, maybe

[Source: GM]