Hyundai shows plug-in hybrid Blue-Will (photos)

DETROIT--Hyundai showed its Blue-Will concept car Monday at the North American International Auto Show here.

Disclosure: Stephen Shankland's spouse is employed by Tesla Motors.

The doors open front and rear in the Blue-Will concept car, making for a wide aperture.

Blue electronic highlights adorn the cockpit of the Hyundai Blue-Will.

It's hard to call it a steering wheel, but you get the idea. Controls are mounted to the central pillar. A swooping console leads from a screen to the transmission selector.

Look for buckets--not a bench--in the back seat of the Blue-Will. In between is a raised ridge, conspicuously labeled "lithium-ion battery," even though the Blue-Will comes with a lithium polymer battery from LG Chem.

The Hyundai Blue-Will has blinking LEDs in its grille, here showing just the Hyundai logo. It also could show "emergency" and other messages. The charging station cable plugs directly into the car's front badge.

It's a concept car, so don't expect these thin, swoopy seats to show up in whatever production vehicle might come from the Blue-Will effort.