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The greatest threat to America's automotive industry of all time has been hiding in plain sight. For years we've been watching Coda and its signature Sedan as it grew from an announcement by Miles Automotive in 2006 into its own stand-alone brand. The company has made breakthroughs and suffered ...

Coda may not have a new model to show off at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, but the company can still make news with a price drop. Or with something that is a price drop in all but name. In September 2010, Coda said its all-electric Sedan would cost $44,900. Today, that was refined downward to ...

The car still isn't here, but the money keeps coming in. Coda Automotive, the Los Angeles-based firm responsible for the oft-delayed $44,900 Coda Sedan, has announced the successful completion of its Series D investment round. The automaker secured $147 million in funds, exceeding its initial ...

Officials from Amports and startup Coda Automotive have struck a deal to open a final assembly facility for the electric Coda Sedan in Benicia, CA. Coda says the Benicia site will generate 50 jobs and, perhaps more importantly to the company, between 10,000 and 14,000 Coda Sedans are expected to ...

Electric vehicles aren't a common sight in most U.S. cities. Understandably, then, for most consumers, EVs remain a far-off vision of the future. Startup Coda Automotive realizes this dilemma and is attempting to make electric vehicles more accessible to Average Jane and Joe Sixpacks with the ...

Coda Automotive, the Los Angeles-based firm responsible for the oft-delayed $44,900 Coda Sedan, has reportedly raised nearly $40 million in additional funds in the past couple of months. According to the automaker's recent U.S. ...

After countless delays, the Coda Sedan is scheduled to launch in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2011. So, now's the time for Coda Automotive to gear up for sales of the electric four-door, right? Let's hope that Thomas Hausch is up to the job, as he was just named to the automaker's newly ...

Coda Automotive, the California-based developer of lithium-ion battery systems and maker of the Coda Sedan, has inked a deal to develop electric vehicles with China's Great Wall Motor for distribution across the globe. The partnership calls for Coda's purpose-built lithium iron phosphate battery ...

While speaking at the 2011 Automotive News China Conference back in April, Phil Murtaugh, chief executive officer of Coda Automotive, announced that Coda's electric Sedan would launch in the U.S. in the "late fourth quarter" of 2011. Of course, "late fourth quarter" deliveries represented ...

Coda Holdings, developer of lithium-ion battery systems and the oft-delayed electric Coda Sedan, announced that Thomas Fritz has joined the company as its senior vice president of engineering. If the name Thomas Fritz sounds familiar, that's because Fritz's extensive experience in automotive ...

While speaking at the 2011 Automotive News China Conference, Phil Murtaugh, chief executive officer of Coda Automotive, said that Coda's electric Sedan is on track to launch in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to Plugin Cars, Murtaugh's actual words poured out like this:

How many all-electric, $44,900 sedans can Coda Automotive sell? According to new CEO Philip Murtaugh, the answer is 50,000 by 2015. That's what he told reporters in Beijing today, according to CNET, and apparently most of these 50,000 ...

In early November, Coda Automotive's now-former chief executive officer, Kevin Czinger, announced his resignation. In the interim, Coda's board co-chairman and former Goldman Sachs executive, Steven "Mac" Heller, assumed the ...

Coda Holdings, the company behind the all-electric Coda Sedan, announced today that is has raised another $76 million. The money was raised in a Series D referred investment round, which has now closed, and brings Coda's total invested ...

Coda Automotive wheeled out its electric Sedan at the LA Auto Show in mid-November. While Sean Blankenship, the automaker's senior vice president of marketing, was busy telling us how the Sedan's "production adjustment" was ...

"We can't afford to build a car that somebody is not going to buy."

Between the "production adjustment" (i.e., delay) and the recent resignation of CEO Kevin Czinger, you might think that things are looking down for Coda Automotive. ...

The bad news just keeps on coming for Coda Automotive. Following the departures of CEO Kevin Czinger and the company's senior VP of global sales, it now looks like the car itself won't be here on time. Coda has long promised it would begin ...

Just three days after Michael Jackson, Coda Automotive's senior vice president of global sales, marketing and distribution , resigned to start his own company, the company's CEO, Kevin Czinger, is also stepping down from his position. Czinger, who has pretty much been the public face of the Miles ...