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Still, not being an EV billboard may be a plus for buyers uneasy about being a rolling experiment.Ī solid list of standard features like 17-inch wheels, 7-inch navigation touch screen, air, iPod Port, and nicely done Eco-Cloth fabric also helps. Aside from LED driving lights, Coda looks like a garden variety 4-door, 5-passenger sedan. Steering is fairly neutral feeling and surprisingly quick, giving the Coda a very responsive feel and an entertaining nature similar to the Focus EV.Īnother sound Coda move good is taking the Hyundai big warranty approach with a 10-year 100,000 mile coverage for the battery system. The battery pack is mounted low in the chassis of the car which helps when it comes to handling, another strong point for the Coda. It can take as much as 30-hours, however, with 110 volts. Moreover, they have a government certified rating of 88-miles, compared to 76-miles on the Ford Focus Electric and 73 for the Nissan Leaf.Ĭharging time is the same as the Focus, just 6-hours when hooked up to a Level-2 240-volt charging station. Coda says a driving range of 125-miles is possible from the 31 kWh battery. On that, Coda claims to deliver the most miles on a charge of any non-luxury EV in production today.
That rates well with other EVs.īut, it’s the all-electric driving range that impresses EV-buyers the most. The Coda’s 134-horsepower electric motor drives a hefty 221 pound feet of torque through a single speed transmission to deliver a factory 0-60 time of 9.5 seconds. A production process not unlike Tesla’s original Lotus derived roadster. The electric drive and batteries are added at Coda’s plant in Benicia, California. The Coda starts out as a glider, a car without an engine, that’s built-up in China under Coda supervision. But Coda hopes their combo of better Lithium Iron Phosphate battery technology, more efficient battery management software, inside a more traditional package, will grab a profitable slice of the electrified-car field. Still, as a new brand with limited resources, they're fully aware that going up against the big boys will be an uphill battle. Though the company has been honing it’s EV plans for years, 2012 marks Coda Automotive’s official entry into the EV competition with a volume produced compact sedan. An electric car company that has a plan to turn everyone on to pluging-in. Now, we want to add one more name to the upstart list. And that certainly seems to appy to electric cars where Tesla and Fisker giving established automakers some real EV competition. There is a time honored business theory that says the most innovative products will often come from small entrepreneurial firms rather than industry behemoths.
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