Oil

WHEN ALL YOU MAKE ARE ELECTRIC CARS, EVERY DAY IS “EARTH DAY”

Have you ever wanted to tell Big Oil exactly how you feel about America’s love affair with it?  Well, here’s your chance.  Join CODA this Saturday in standing up for and supporting what we like to call “End Dependence Day,” a day when we are no longer dependent on foreign oil and are free from [...] read more +

China Fear Mongering Set to Squash Global Collaboration?

There’s a new topic that is creeping up in the media – from personal blogs all the way up to national dailies – and it’s only going to get bigger.  What is it that has hard working Americans across the country worked up?  China. The fear that China is going to “beat” America is a growing [...] read more +

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 +

EV report neglects total cost and environmental savings

The Lux Research report published this month paints a less-than-rosy picture for the rate of adoption for electric cars.  The Wall Street Journal’s Keith Johnson gives a comprehensive overview of the study in his October 7th story, “Speed Bump:  Don’t Bank on Electric-Car Revolution, Lux Says.” The Lux report claims a much slower growth rate for [...] read more +

Waiting for “Perfection” Won’t jump-start the EV movement

The pessimists are at it again.  Last week Reuters ran a story suggesting electric cars still have a long way to go before they’re the “perfect solution” to our country’s transportation-related pollution woes. Why wait for the perfect solution when a good solution with the room to grow into the perfect solution is already here? The Reuters [...] read more +