Demo Days Dallas brought a two-day vehicle festival to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, offering attendees a chance to try vehicles with gas, hybrid and electric powertrains. The organizer’s event page listed hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, general admission starting at $24.99, general parking at $20 per vehicle and the venue address as 3545 Lone Star Circle.
Test drives among other activities
The festival’s offerings extended beyond cars, with food trucks and several demo activities. A Kids Zone offered go-karts.
The event now uses the Demo Days Festival name. LA Downtown News reported that the festival, previously called Electrify Expo, was rebranded for its fifth anniversary; the earlier name reflected an emphasis on electric vehicles and transportation.
Texas EV figures and charging context
The festival’s mix of powertrains comes amid a changing state vehicle-registration picture, though the numbers do not measure festival attendance or the share of all Texas vehicles that are electric. In its FY 2025 report, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles said electric vehicles made up 33.1% of registered alternatively fueled vehicles in Texas. The agency reported that EV registrations increased by 274,181, or 452.9%, over the five-year period covered by the report.
Local charging figures offer a dated snapshot, not a current count: the Fort Worth Report said the city had 118 public Level II chargers and 15 DC fast chargers at the time of its Feb. 28, 2024, article. Separately, the North Central Texas Council of Governments describes a TxDOT plan to construct $53 million in EV chargers for corridor travel statewide, funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program; that is a planned investment, not a tally of stations already operating.
For people comparing electric, hybrid and gas vehicles, one ownership distinction is that Texas’s additional EV registration fee does not apply to hybrids, according to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
