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Coda is the passenger-car outgrowth of Miles Electric Vehicles, both founded by entrepreneur Miles Rubin to electrify transportation. While Miles Electric Vehicles focused on small commercial trucks and campus people transporters, Coda has concentrated on street-legal, freeway-ready passenger cars for the general public. Even though Coda has had its ups, downs and delays over the years, company execs now say that the first vehicle will be available for sale in “early 2012.” That first car is the somewhat (OK, really) bland car you see here, built mostly by Chinese carmaker Hafei and shipped motorless to Coda’s final assembly plant in Benecia, Calif. There, Coda installs a 134-hp UQM motor, battery-management system and a relatively large 36-kilowatt-hour lithium-iron-phosphate battery (the Nissan Leaf is 24 kilowatt-hours and the Mitsubishi “i” is 16 kilowatt-hours) that gives the 3,600-pound car a pretty hefty range of 150 miles.
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