2007 Los Angeles Auto Show
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The Auto Show is in Los Angeles again and I have to say I wasn’t that impressed. I was more wowed by the neat display technologies for the show booths and all the lcd displays than I was about the cars. As far as new technologies went the main hype was fuel cells. Only a handful of car companies even had fuel cell displays and the ones that did just showed it as a concept and nothing that looked as if it were nearing production.
The only electric vehicle to be seen were the Tesla and the Chevrolet Volt. Kind of weird considering many car companies seem to have many things in the pipeline and you’d think a major show like the L.A. Auto Show would be a perfect medium to display their new technologies and get some good PR but nope…its like they didn’t even care. It made you feel like everything with the auto industry is in super slow motion and someone is making sure at all costs that it stays that way. I would bet if you ask the general public about new technologies they know very little about what is going on with new advancements in EV and fuel cell technologies. With the exception of Honda and Toyota the majority of the auto companies were very happy to display all of the new gasoline cars and kind of shoved the new tech stuff to the side as a ‘yeah we’re working on it’ kind of thing. I hope next year will be different.
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