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A partnership between an LA-based electric car startup and a Chinese auto maker intends to produce “the most affordable EV on the market.” On Tuesday Coda announced that it has a new deal with Great Wall Motors Company to co-develop a low cost electric car. Read More »

Electric-car startup Coda officially drove its first ready-to-ship electric car off the assembly line at its plant in the Northern California city of Benicia, California, on Monday morning, saying that the move is the start of its customer sales. It’s been a long time coming. Read More »

 
 

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Electric car company Coda Automotive is raising more funds as it moves closer to shipping its first electric sedans. According to a filing, the company is looking to raise another $150 million, and has closed $21.5 million of that round. Read More »

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Despite Coda just going into production of its inaugural electric sedan, the startup will announce on Friday it’s launching a division that plans to sell its batteries and battery management system to act as energy storage for the power grid. Read More »

I look at the numbers for whether the DOE and Obama will be able to meet the goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Read More »

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Electric car startup Coda Automotive started production of its inaugural electric sedan this week, and expects to start delivering its first cars to dealers in December. Here are 10 things you need to know about Coda Automotive and its inaugural electric sedan. Read More »

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China has long been perceived as the must-tackle market for clean power and cleantech, but it’s also become a spigot of private capital for startups that find the marriage of money and market opportunity particularly appealing. Read More »

Electric car maker Coda closes nearly $150M

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Electric car startup Coda Automotive has raised close to $150 million in funding, the company announced late Monday. I think this is the same oversubscribe round that the company has been in the process of raising over the past year. Read More »

Fisker Automotive, which finally began delivering its first plug-in electric hybrid car this summer, has begun promoting its second model in earnest as well. The company announced Thursday that its next car, dubbed “Project Nina,” will come with engines and other parts by BMW. Read More »

PHOTOS: Close-to-production Coda electric sedan

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At the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Tuesday, I got a chance to check out a much closer-to-production version of the Coda sedan, with slightly new styling and more functionality. Read More »

Making all-electric vehicles is easier if you haven’t been building gas guzzlers for the better part of a century: That’s the mantra put firth by representatives from Tesla and CODA. Both said today at GigaOM’s Green:Net conference that there is space for indie EV car makers. Read More »

Coda to Open Electric Car Store This Summer

Looks like creating an in-store experience is the way to go for electric car companies. This week, electric car startup Coda Automotive is releasing images of its new store at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, Calif., which it plans to open this summer. Read More »

More Must Reads

The latest wave of electric cars rolling into the market will be cars connected to the power grid and increasingly, to cellular networks. Along with smart meters and the smart grid, electric vehicles and EV charging stations will be areas to watch. Read More »

Electric car startup Coda has been in the process of raising $125 million — so now that the company has pushed back its launch date, how far along is the fund raise? Out of a planned $125 million Coda has raised $76 million. Read More »

With a fresh blanket of snow covering the East Coast, the electric cars that have just been delivered to consumers in the U.S. will have their first chance for a winter driving test. Will GM’s Volt and Nissan’s LEAF maintain their battery range? Read More »

While Uncle Sam has tapped a select few companies as winners for its green car loan program, it has left a much longer list of loan applicants disappointed or stuck in limbo. Here’s the state of the ATVM awards at the end of 2010: Read More »

On the heels of management changes at Coda Automotive, the electric car startup has decided to push back the sales date of its inaugural all-electric sedan to the third quarter of 2011 from December 2010, interim CEO Steven “Mac” Heller told me in an interview. Read More »

Sounds like there’s trouble brewing at CODA Automotive, the venture-backed startup which hopes to be one of the first to sell an all-electric sedan to mainstream consumers. Late Friday CODA announced that CEO Kevin Czinger will step down. Read More »

Electric vehicle maker startup Coda has finally released the pricing of its inaugural vehicle, and at almost $45,000 it’ll cost you almost $4,000 more than GM’s Volt, and over $12,000 more than the Nissan’s all-electric LEAF. Read More »

Execs at green car startups like to give the impression that hundreds of millions of dollars in DOE green car loans are just about to fill up their corporate bank accounts. For some, it could be true. For others, not so much. Read More »

Looks like bad news for First Solar. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the thin film solar PV leader may not have actually secured that 2-gigawatt solar farm planned for China’s desert, which it announced back in September of 2009. Read More »

Now that Tesla priced the range for its IPO last week you might be wondering what Tesla intends to use all those funds for? Well, while most of the funds will go for manufacturing of its next-gen car, Tesla could also uses the funds for acquisitions. Read More »

Electric car startup Coda Automotive has just announced the first funding for its joint venture with Chinese battery giant Lishen. The duo has agreed to invest $100 million in the venture, which just snagged a $294 million line of credit. Read More »

Nissan, one of the automakers betting most heavily on the nascent electric vehicle market, will price its upcoming LEAF plug-in sedan in the range of 3.5 million to 4 million yen (about $38,600-$44,100) in Japan, according to a Mainichi Shimbun report picked up by … Read More »

John Bryson, former CEO of Edison International and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, has a yen for startups that can take solar PV, smart meter communications, and battery technologies farther. At least those were some of the startups he plugged in his opening … Read More »

Coda Automotive, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based electric car startup that aims to launch a China-built sedan this year in California, has just raised $25 million from Aeris Capital (h/t Bloomberg). Coda, which spun out of low-speed electric vehicle maker Miles EV in June, has now … Read More »

As far as China’s BYD Co. is concerned, Los Angeles has at least five markings of a prime launchpad for electric vehicles: high population density, air pollution problems, a large car market, affluent consumers, and a yen for new technologies. That’s why the battery giant and … Read More »

Any company hoping to launch a plug-in vehicle for mass market consumers has to be focused to some extent on battery cost — it’s the priciest part of the vehicle, making many models either prohibitively expensive for an average consumer at this point, or forcing the … Read More »

In a move that could mark the birth of a powerhouse electric vehicle tech partnership, UQM Technologies and BorgWarner have just announced plans to collaborate on electric powertrain systems for hybrid and electric vehicles. First in line for the new duo’s technology is Coda Automotive, … Read More »

Call it the year of the electric sedan: After a series of delays, name changes, deals and design tweaks over the last two years, three automakers have unveiled their visions for a first generation of all-electric family vehicles. The latest model comes … Read More »

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