Amerigon to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth St

    Business Editors/Automotive Writers
    Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth Stock Conference

    DEARBORN, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 2005--Amerigon Incorporated (Nasdaq:ARGN) today announced that it is scheduled to make an investor presentation at the Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth Stock Conference on Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The conference is being held February 21-23, 2005 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point, CA.
    A live webcast of the Company's presentation at the Conference will be available via a link provided at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/roth5/argn/. An archive of the presentation will begin shortly after the presentation time and will be available for thirty days.

    About the Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth Stock Conference

    This conference will feature more than 220 leading growth companies in sectors such as Technology, Healthcare, Financial Services and Consumer Products. A concentrated, two-day program will allow institutional investors to meet the executives from a select group of companies that have been hand picked by the Roth Capital Partners research team. 40% of this year's participating companies are presenting here for the first time. The average market cap of this year's presenters is around $330 million, with the median around $185 million. This closely mirrors the average and median market cap for the proposed Russell Microcap(TM) Index which is expected to be around $277 million and $176 million respectively.
    To register for this conference, please contact your Roth sales representative at 800-678-9147. Please note that this conference is by invitation only.
    For more information about the conference visit: http://www.rothcp.com/2005%20DP%20Conference%20Web%20Site/Roth%20DP.ht ml?content=home.

    About Amerigon

    Amerigon designs, develops and markets its proprietary Climate Control Seat(TM) (CCS(TM)) products for sale to automotive and truck original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). CCS enhances individual driver and passenger comfort in virtually all climatic conditions by providing cooling and heating to seat occupants, as desired, through an active thermoelectric-based temperature management system. Amerigon's subsidiary, BSST, is engaged in developing thermoelectric devices (TED) with more efficiency than currently available devices and has development contracts with several customers to expand the market for TED-based automotive and non-automotive products. Amerigon maintains sales and technical support centers in Los Angeles, Detroit, Japan, Germany and England.

    Certain matters discussed in this release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be different. Important factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from its expectations in this release are risks that sales may not significantly increase, necessary additional financing may be unavailable, new competitors may arise and adverse conditions in the automotive industry may negatively affect its results. The liquidity and trading price of its common stock may be negatively affected by these and other factors. Please also refer to the Amerigon's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including but not limited to its Form 10-QSB for the period ending September 30, 2004 and its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.

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KEYWORD: MICHIGAN INDUSTRY KEYWORD: AUTOMOTIVE TRADESHOW SOURCE: Amerigon Incorporated

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