By now it’s a tradition: We celebrate the last day of the month by running down the most popular posts on GreenCarReports.com. For June, only a single Top Five post from May survived–and last month’s # 1 Ferrari hybrid piece didn’t show up at all. This month, it’s all about electric cars: # 1: First [...]

Dongfeng’s Mengshi Backside of the Dongfeng Coupe The American marketplace may be sluggish right now, but manufacturers and investors are betting big on China. Not only is there a fair amount of money floating around that country–the new home of Hummer and Volvo–but China is also set to become the world’s biggest auto market in [...]

It’s not every day that the CEO of a car company takes you for a ride. Especially if it’s through the move-it-or-lose-it traffic of midtown Manhattan. In the rain. But Kevin Czinger seemed to enjoy it. We covered the 2011 Coda Sedan all-electric car when it launched three weeks ago. Now we’ve had a ride [...]

Last week, we wrote that the smash success of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is leading the company to plan five additional electric cars. We’ve now driven electric-car prototypes from a number of automakers: a 2011 Chevrolet Volt mule, the 2012 Nissan EV prototype, the 2012 Ford Focus EV prototype, and the disappointing Mini E. And we’ve [...]

Today, Yardney Technical Products and Coda Automotive announced that they have entered into a joint venture, called Coda Battery Systems, to design and produce automotive lithium-ion battery systems.  Coda Battery Systems has already been busy: on May 19th, they submitted a proposal under the stimulus grant program to the Department of Energy for funding to build a manufacturing facility [...]

Coda Automotive is a brand new car company that has been formed under the stewardship of Miles Rubin of Miles Automotive. On June 3rd the company unveiled itself as well as a new all-electric car that it plans to introduce to the California market in 2010. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It [...]

So here’s an idea: Take an existing car, re-engineer it with a large lithium-ion battery pack, rebrand it, and sell it in the US as the first all-electric car of its kind. Aha, you say! The 2009 Tesla Roadster! Errrrr … well … no. It’s the Coda, a new four-door, five-passenger electric sedan expected to [...]

On Wednesday, we covered the news that Coda Automotive will offer a $45,000 all-electric four-door sedan for sale in California, starting in the autumn of 2010. The car project and the company were formerly part of Miles Automotive, which sells small, slow, plastic neighborhood electric vehicles. This car, however, is their first highway-capable product–and it [...]