Coda Automotive (formerly Miles Automotive Group)

[DDB]

And if history is any guide... Phoenix goes down and now Miles... does not bode well for start-ups with ambitious goals of quality low-cost highway capable EVs.

[doug]

Greentech Media

Miles Electric Vehicles will show off its slightly delayed all-purpose electric car on June 3 in Santa Monica.
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The company's car will cost around $45,000, go for 100 miles on a charge and start coming out in early 2010, marketing director Kara Saltness told us in late April. The car is based in part around a gas car already on sale in China. By leveraging the work done in China, Miles hopes to be able to keep the price somewhat low and squeeze through safety testing in less time than it might take a car completely built from scratch.
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Miles also isn't going it alone. It will announce a strategic partner soon.

Strategic partner besides the Chinese supplier of the car body? Perhaps a Chinese battery manufacturer then.

[DDB]

Greentech Media

Strategic partner besides the Chinese supplier of the car body? Perhaps a Chinese battery manufacturer then.

My God does Miles have anything done? Sounds a lot like Phoenix...delay delay...bankruptcy...And $45K is not going to fly at all with the Ford Focus EV and Volt for selling less than $45K (as well as Mitsu and others).

[domenick]

There is to be a big announcement tomorrow.

[graham]

We assume to correspond to the big Kleiner-Perkins announcement about a partnership with a EV company?

[doug]

ehh... well see tomorrow. Can't say it's particularly exciting.

[domenick]

It seems they are going to market their sedan under a different brand; Coda. The first car will be known as Coda sedan. It has a Hafei chassis and they've been working with Porsche Engineering. Oh, ABG has a post ready to go.

[domenick]

Here's a capture from the video at their new website.

[flabby]

Miles EV launches Coda Automotive for full speed electric sedan

"$45,000 before incentives". That's about $10,000 less than the model S.

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$45,000 before incentives". That's about $10,000 less than the model S.

And the Model S looks like a million bucks.