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Coda begins production, but no movement on Columbus battery plant
Business First by Rick Rouan, Web coordinator
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 1:52pm EST

The company that wants to bring an automotive-grade lithium ion battery plant to Columbus has started producing the cars that would use them. Coda Automotive Inc. announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that it started production on what will be its flagship sedan. But plans for bringing the battery plant to Columbus’ east side are on hold while the Los Angeles-based company waits for the federal Department of Energy to decide whether it will loan it $400 million to $500 million for the project.

READ MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2011/11/17/coda-begins-production-but-no.html

Posted 6 months ago #
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Coda: Code for a Trojan horse

By Greg Autry and Peter Navarro
December 11, 2011

A Los Angeles firm has quietly assembled a Trojan horse electric car designed to carry the Chinese military-industrial complex deep into America's auto market. Detroit should be afraid, very afraid. And anyone in the U.S. unemployment line — along with American taxpayers, who are subsidizing this sham — should be outraged.

READ MORE: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-autry-coda-20111211,0,3911557.story

Posted 5 months ago #
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Coda ditches plan to build car-battery factory in Columbus

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Posted 1 month ago #
Walker
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Wow. Bummer that those 1000 jobs are no longer happening... but it sounds like things have been somewhat questionable all along the way...

Posted 1 month ago #
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AEP to add Coda electric car to its fleet
By Dan Gearino
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday May 17, 2012 4:06 PM

The electric-car company that recently withdrew a proposal to build a factory in central Ohio is announcing that American Electric Power is the first company in the world to buy one of the cars for its corporate fleet. Coda Automotive’s debut sedan will be part of an AEP fleet that now includes 18 plug-in vehicles, the Columbus-based utility said today.

READ MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2012/05/17/aep-ohio-to-add-coda-electric-vehicle-to-fleet.html

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