Roewe Mobiliant wins 10th annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge

SAIC Motor Wins 2013 LA Auto Show Design Challenge

The judges of the 10th annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge named SAIC Motor the winner of the 2013 competition.



SAIC Motor beat out eight world-renowned auto design studios for the prestigious honor, with its innovative public transit solution aimed at alleviating urban problems such as air pollution and traffic congestion.

Inspired by a simple ant's distinctive body structure and the mutually beneficial relationship between ants and trumpet trees, SAIC Motors designed Roewe "Mobiliant." Mobiliant is a single-seat vehicle for urban public transit, which helps improve both transportation and operation efficiency for future urban ecological systems.

Though the competition was extremely close, the judges unanimously agreed that it was Mobiliant's focus on the concept of mutualism that set it apart. The system was based upon the balance and harmony found in nature when two organisms of different species exist in a mutually beneficial relationship. The judges also agreed that the Mobiliant concept was optimistic, beautiful and best answered the competition criteria by mimicking a truly sustainable solution that resembled an ancient system that has worked for millions of years.

Themed "Biomimicry & Mobility 2025 – Nature's Answer to Human Challenges," the competitors focused on mobility solutions for a variety of transportation issues, such as congestion, pollution, safety and sustainability, with the design inspiration coming from Mother Nature.

Other auto design studios who participated in the LA Auto Show's 2013 Design Challenge represented brands BMW, MINI, Changfeng, JAC Motors, Mazda, Qoros, Subaru and Toyota. From self-sustaining silk worms to long-forgotten waterways, the entries created fierce competition and long deliberation by the judges.

Entries were judged on various criteria: creative adaptation of nature's laws (plants & animals); application of human intelligence to Biomimicry in unique ways to improve the efficiency of future vehicles; comfort, convenience, aesthetics of the vehicle; sustainability of the building, servicing, operation, and life cycle; and the personality of the vehicle.

In addition to the nine competing studios, three additional studios chose to highlight their team's capabilities by displaying their concepts in this year's Design Gallery, making for a total of 12 displays. These organizations include Hyundai Design and Research Center, Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Center California and Nissan Design America. The concepts will be prominently displayed at the LA Auto Show in the newly created Design Gallery through the run of the public show (Nov. 22-Dec. 1, 2013).

snifferdog1 wrote:Good stuff. Where was it designed, SMTC?!

snifferdog1 wrote:Good stuff. Where was it designed, SMTC?!

Technological breakthroughs SAIC wins 2013 Los Angeles Design Challenge champion

Innovation both in which industry has a pivotal position, good innovative ideas can lead a business invincible in the industry, SAIC recently designed a design concept by virtue of many internationally renowned team defeated a famous battle in Los Angeles. November 22, 2013, in the global automotive car design community profile Los Angeles Design Challenge awards ceremony, SAIC Design Shanghai Tenth design team won the championship in Los Angeles Design Challenge, which is China's domestic auto design team for the first time in International top automotive design contest to win laurels!



Los Angeles Design Challenge description:

Los Angeles Design Challenge (LA Design Challenge) is a major part of the annual Los Angeles Auto Show. It is the world's most watched automotive design competitions. The tournament is famous for excellent looking only for the global automotive design center set up, officially entered its tenth year, the schedule, the Organizing Committee will set up a theme each year, each depot will be designed around a variety of highly prospective the future of the car, to explore the future of the world of transport possibilities. Finalists represent the auto industry's most avant-garde whimsy, leading the concept car design trends, the development of new technologies related to the automobile also has a very important role in enlightening.



The contest theme:

This year's Los Angeles Design Challenge officially entered the tenth, the organizers plan a green trend is quite consistent with the current design theme - "bionics and mobility 2025" (Biomimicry & Mobility 2025: Nature's Answer to Human Challenges), designed Bionic Technology division clever use of the vehicle design, made ​​to ease congestion, pollution and other problems in the future transport solutions.

SAIC design team:

SAIC designed in line to challenge themselves, share their knowledge and attitude to try to participate in this event by the global design director Anthony Williams-Kenny, design director of China Shao Jingfeng led the Shanghai team completed preliminary design studio.

This is the first time SAIC design competition courage, the courage and the top international top automotive design studios - such as BMW, Toyota launched fair competition.



SAIC design concept:

Roewe Mobiliant concept, preliminary design team from SAIC, a young designer, his hometown located in a small fishing village in Fujian coast, his childhood home had a strange plant called horn tree, a tree with a unique sojourn ants, mutualism, which inspired him deeply explore the relationship between man and nature, urban pollution, transportation systems, to further develop its conceptual design between ants and horn tree.

Roewe Mobiliant concept car inspired by ants unique body structure. The individual high-speed transport plays a role in the future of urban taxi, will use the symbiotic relationship between ants and horn eco tree to the city's future public transport system in the city to help improve the future of ecosystems and transportation efficiency.



Roewe Mobiliant uses many cutting-edge bionic technology. Tire cilia structure and materials designed to mimic three-ant's body so that the body can adapt to the concept car at any angle of the road. A large area portion of the vehicle body front absorber valve reference exoskeleton of ants on the air pollutants can be absorbed and converted by the enzyme is transformed into a liquid fertilizer. Two sides of the container body inspiration from ants have characteristics of both the stomach, the right side of the brown container for storing liquid manure left for green container is equipped with a fuel cell power generation biofuels.

Derived under the Roewe Mobiliant unique body structure 'Mobiliant Expressway' proprietary high-speed channel is a real three-dimensional road system. This road system has many advantages, the most significant of which is the various lane intersection noninterference in each other, completely without traffic lights, greatly improving transportation efficiency and achieve the urban rapid transit system in the true sense.

SAIC design award meaning:

SAIC design team to proactive thinking, positive vision to the future, to take concrete action to participate in international events, to show the world energy Chinese local designers, will debut gains title, and won wide recognition in the international context. So far more than can be pleased to see the steam as the representative of China's domestic auto companies made ​​tremendous progress in the design, the design strength of China's new generation of youth in the rapidly growing, their imagination and creativity should not be overlooked. The Los Angeles design contest winners, the Chinese car brand from "Made in China" to "Created in China" is another milestone in the history of progress in the history of the Chinese automotive design sway under the edges of the chapter