The North American Worldwide Auto Present mentioned this 12 months’s occasion will function extra manufacturers than final 12 months’s first foray into September that prolonged exterior the partitions of Huntington Place.

The Detroit Auto Sellers Affiliation, which runs the present, mentioned Wednesday that it expects greater than double the 13 manufacturers that participated in final 12 months’s present. Normal Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis had been the first automakers that includes manufacturers within the present, with many European and Asian manufacturers absent.

This 12 months’s present schedule contains media days on Sept. 13-14, the charity preview Sept. 15 and public occasion Sept. 16-24.

Different additions this 12 months will in embrace an indoor EV check monitor for attendees and a worldwide mobility discussion board for executives, which can run concurrently with media days.

Ford, GM and Stellantis will function their full model portfolios this 12 months, organizers mentioned. The present expects “a number of” automobile debuts, however didn’t give a determine for what number of had dedicated to the present up to now.

Final 12 months’s present prolonged past its conventional dwelling in Huntington Place (the previous Cobo Middle) to embody occasions in Hart Plaza and elsewhere in Detroit. It represented a relaunch of the present for a related world the place automakers now not want a central media occasion to launch autos, preferring to speak extra instantly with shoppers.

It additionally represented a relaunch after a number of years of cancelations because of the transfer of the present from January, which was adopted by COVID-related delays. In all, there have been virtually 4 years between the 2 editions of the present.

Attendance on the revamped present was down considerably from attendance at pre-pandemic exhibits, however stay occasions extra broadly have bounced again strongly in 2023.

“This 12 months’s present represents the following step in its evolution and within the evolution of the business itself,” mentioned Detroit Auto Present Chairman Thad Szott. “Automotive expertise is altering so quickly; how will we make folks comfy with it? We’re planning for a present that not solely embraces and educates about this new expertise however affords an immersion into it. And with twice the variety of manufacturers collaborating, there will be no scarcity of participating with it.”