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MIT Hacks an electric car

Submitted by Carlectro staff on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:33.
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Motoczycz

Submitted by Carlectro staff on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:11.
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Can't pronounce it. Who cares. Look at this beast.

And MIT's Technology Review has a great story about the Manx TT (Electric) race here. Read it.

"Coda" U.S.-China Car Startup Raises $24M From Big Wigs

Submitted by joshua.davidson2 on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 20:41.
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Henry Paulson – remember him? – is one of a few well-known investors in a company that wants to fashion a Chinese car for the U.S. market

Henry Paulson's new prescription for economic growth for the U.S.? Invest in Chinese know-how.

Coda Automotive – which wants to sell an all-electric sedan in the U.S. next year – has lined up $24 million in a second round of funding and, to a certain degree, it's an unusual group of investors.

The group includes Paulson – the former Goldman Sachs titan who became a familiar face to most Americans when the economy collapsed during his tenure as U.S. Treasury Secretary last year – as well as Thomas "Mack" McLarty, the former chief of staff for Bill Clinton, Tom Steyer, a noted energy investor and one of the large donors to Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, and former Edison International CEO John Bryson. The VC firm Angeleno Group and company insiders also invested.

Coda was spun out of Miles Automotive earlier this year. Miles specializes in low-speed electric cars for military bases and college campuses.  read more »

Blocher's Homebrew!

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