No need to be crestfallen if you couldn't make it out to the Detroit Auto Show this week - Inhabitat was on the showfloor checking out all of the smoking hot new hybrids and electrifying EVs and we've rounded up our favorites for you. From the jaw-dropping Lexus LF-LC to the until now top secret Volkswagon Electric E-Bugster to the Ford Fusion Energi Plugin Hybrid, which is being called the world's most efficient sedan, check out our top picks for the newly unveiled hybrid and electric vehicles that dazzled us the most at the 2012 North American International Auto Show.

Volkswagon Electric E-Bugster

Can you imagine being a fly on the wall when Volkswagen finally took the covers off of its closely guarded E-Bugster electric concept vehicle? The curvaceous auto definitely lived up to the rumors that it takes after another kind of bug, the Beetle, although we thought it had a bit of Jetta or Golf mixed into it’s gene pool as well.

Ford Fusion Energi Plugin Hybrid

Living up to the title of world’s most efficient sedan is a tough job but Ford Fusion Energi Plugin Hybrid takes it all in stride. With its plug-in hybrid drivetrain capable of achieving the equivalent of 100, yes, 100, mpg, this blue beaut also touts nifty advancements like a system that parallel parks it automatically.