November, 2009

Detroit doesn’t have the answers

As a nimble, growing electric car company, we took issue with David Welch’s recent BusinessWeek article on the Energy Department’s funding of two green car start-ups, Tesla and Fisker.  Not that we weren’t just as baffled as the rest of America about why the Energy Department would give nearly a billion dollars – $993 million [...] read more +

Time to diversify your garage

With all of this talk about range anxiety, its completely understandable that people are a little stressed out just thinking about replacing their familiar gas guzzlers with an emissions free electric car. We get it.  It’s new and it’s unfamiliar.  So there’s a lot to think through, but that doesn’t mean you should discount them so [...] read more +

CODA’s All-Electric Sedan Revs Up U.S. Auto Market

Sliding into the driver’s seat of Coda’s electric sedan for the first time, I looked around for clues. Here’s 100 years of automotive history, reinvented — what’s different? No gear-shift, just a knob that engages the car’s two speeds, forward and reverse. A battery-life gauge. Not much else. Then I pull into midtown Manhattan traffic [...] read more +