LA Auto Show

The 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge has finished in a tie between GM’s Cadillac Aera concept and the Smart 454 from Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design.

SmartFit is a system that combines a smartphone app with custom car seats to achieve the optimum fit.

Nissan’s Ellure Concept, which will debut at the 2010 LA Auto Show, is a hybrid vehicle that Nissan says is a confirmation that the sedan still has some life left in it yet and will remain a core part of Nissan’s product portfolio.

Wheego is debuting its Whip LiFe electric car at the LA Auto Show.

Mitsubishi will unveil the North American version of its i-MiEV (Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) that boasts an enlarged body at the Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) this week.

The LA Auto Show Design Challenge has invited auto designers to create a car that weighs no more than 1,000 pounds.

The Nissan V2G concept was has taken out the Los Angeles Auto Show's 2009 Design Challenge.

Capstone Turbine Corporation has shown off its high performance hybrid electric car, the CMT-380, which features a 30kW microturbine that extends the range of its traditional EV batteries, at the current LA Auto Show.

Honda’s P-NUT ultra-compact concept vehicle features a modular rear engine bay designed to accommodate a wide variety of potential powertrain technologies including a conventional small ICE, a hybrid system, or a battery-electric drivetrain.

California based company, HydroLectricPower, claims its HH2 system can turn just about any fossil fuel (petrol, diesel or compressed natural gas) powered vehicle into an eco-friendly hybrid with the installation of a book-sized device.

Each year as part of the Design Los Angeles Conference held at the LA Auto Show, creative types from major car companies get to stare into their crystal balls and let their imaginations run wild in designing the car of the future.

The Mazda R&D team has fended off some very impressive competition to take out the Los Angeles Auto Show's 2008 Design Challenge.