Guests look at CODA , a four-door, five passenger, all-electric sedan at the Santa Monica Civic Center during the 4th Annual Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo on Friday, October 10, 2009. CODA's promotional display reads, "IN CASE of global warming, outrages gasoline costs and oil-fueled international conflict, break glass and remove CODA immediately."
Headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., Coda Automotive is a manufacturer and distributor of all-electric cars and transportation battery systems. Launched in June 2009, the company designs, brands, markets and distributes electric vehicles utilizing a manufacturing partnership strategy which allows Coda Automotive to develop vehicles rapidly in a flexible manner – avoiding the traditionally capital intensive nature of the automobile business. Coda Automotive’s first vehicle, the Coda sedan, will be delivered in 2010.
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