Coda Automotive has become the latest casualty of the cut-throat electric car industry, today filing for bankruptcy. The company will dissolve the carmaking business and instead put its efforts into Coda Energy, a stationary battery storage business it started in 2011. According to The Detroit...
If you're a couple of years late launching your car, and it gets only tepid reviews, and then its frontal crash safety is rated at just two stars out of five, it might be... December 12, 2012 by John Voelcker 3
The new car market is a harsh environment even for the best-funded and most-respected of carmakers. For a brand like Coda, whose electric sedan is not only a niche product by... December 4, 2012 by Antony Ingram 6
How many times have you gone car shopping to hear the salesman promise to give you free gas for a few weeks or months as a deal sweetener? In the days of $4-a-gallon... October 17, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 7
It's been a long time coming, but the 2012 Coda Sedan is now on sale at a handful of dealers in California. Six months after the very first Coda compact electric cars were... September 12, 2012 by John Voelcker 20
When Coda Automotive started production and sales of its 2012 Sedan earlier this year, it ended years of doubt and confusion about the firm’s abilities to bring a... April 25, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 10
We breathed a sigh of relief when Coda announced it had started production of its electric Sedan earlier this month. Then, we positively jumped for joy when little over a... March 29, 2012 by Antony Ingram 30
You can add one more to the list of electric cars now on sale in the U.S., with deliveries last week of the very first 2012 Coda Sedan models last Friday in northern and... March 21, 2012 by John Voelcker 15
While the company didn't make its self-imposed deadline for first customer deliveries in February, Coda Automotive has a different reason to celebrate today. At 10:25 am... March 12, 2012 by John Voelcker 16
Once every four years -- with a few odd exceptions -- February gets an extra day. That’s probably a good thing, because Californian automaker Coda promised earlier this... February 29, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 6
Earlier this month at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Californian startup Coda Automotive promised that it would begin sales of its first car -- the all-electric 2012 Coda Sedan... January 27, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 7
Californian electric automaker Coda Automotive might have recently opened its first showroom and signed a deal to open a final assembly plant in Benicia, California where it... September 21, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 4
It’s been just a week since Californian automaker Coda Automotive opened up its first showroom in LA’s Westside in the Westfield Century Mall -- but now Coda... September 14, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 6
“In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we’re doing anonymously,” Jay Leno explained to Top Gear’s James May, discussing his views... September 12, 2011 by Thomas Bey 6
Where do you go to buy your next green car? For most consumers, the answer would be the local car dealer on the outskirts of town, but yesterday California-based Coda... September 9, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 6
What does $50 million buy you? We can think of plenty of good things we could do, but according to Californian electric car firm Coda Automotive, $50 million is how much it... April 13, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 12
