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Coda Automotive announces U.S. battery joint venture
Coda sedan - Click above for high res image gallery When we spoke with Coda Automotive's marketing director Kara Saltness a few weeks before the unveiling of the new electric sedan, she mentioned that although Lishen would be providing the batteries for the car, Coda was looking at other options as well. Saltness mentioned a possible U.S. partnership for battery production. This week, Coda announced a new joint venture with Connecticut-based Yardney Technical Products, Inc. The new company will work on designing, building and selling ... Read more →
Live coverage of the Coda EV including interior photos Sam Abuelsamid
Coda sedan - click above for a high res live gallery Unfortunately, we didn't have anyone from the ABG team available locally to attend the unveiling of the new Coda electric sedan earlier this ...
Miles EV launches Coda Automotive for full speed electric sedan w/VIDEO Sam Abuelsamid
click above for a high res gallery of the Code EV sedan Today, Miles EV announced that the full speed electric car that it has been developing for the last several years will bear the new Coda ...
New highway-speed Miles electric sedan to be unveiled next week Sebastian Blanco
On June 3rd, Miles EV will unveil their new, highway-speed all-electric 4-door sedan and offer up the first test rides. A new strategic partner for the automaker best know for its low-speed ...
Miles Automotive removes highway speed electric vehicle from homepage, rebranding coming soon Sebastian Blanco
As you can see in the screen grab above, Miles Automotive's website currently lists two just vehicles: low speed cars and trucks. But, you say, wasn't there a lot of talk about a highway-speed ...
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Miles EV names ex-Goldman Sachs exec as Co-Chairman 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click image to enlarge Miles Electric Vehicles is continuing to beef up its executive lineup, this time naming a new Co-Chairman alongside founder Miles Rubin. Steven "Mac" Heller has been on the board since last November. Heller was formerly head of mergers and acquisitions as well as the ...
Attention Wal-Mart shoppers: Electric cars marked down on aisle 6 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Might your next (first?) electric vehicle purchase be transacted at Wal-Mart? It's not out of realm of possibility. Mexican company, GS Motors, is already selling 3 different models from China's First Auto Works (FAW) at a so-called "big box" retail chain in Mexico and has plans to replicate the ...
Miles EV board now includes ex-GM and Ford electric vehicle execs 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click image to enlarge We recently learned a lot of information about the Miles EV highway speed sedan (above); today, we learn a little bit more about the company itself. The Miles EV advisory board now included Kenneth Baker (not the actor who played R2-D2) and John Wallace, both of whom have ...
Miles EV CEO talks about highway speed electric sedan, company's future 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
A little while back, we got our first official peek of the Miles EV highway speed sedan. That picture can now be fleshed out a bit with details on how Miles EV is planning to bring this Chinese-built all-electric car to the US market. Miles EV CEO Kevin Czinger sat down with AutoblogGreen and ...
TTAC not pleased with a 2007 Miles ZX40S 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The last time The Truth About Cars got its hands on an all-electric alternative vehicle, it was less than impressed. Now, the site's latest tester is the Miles ZX40S. Will this more practical alternative to the gasoline engine win some favor from TTAC? No, not really. The actual test model procured ...
Miles EV highway speed sedan, first official rendering 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click to enlarge Back in 2007, this car was called the Javlon XS500. Then it got shortened to just XS500. Now, the all-electric sedan that Miles EV wants to bring market in 2010 or so is called, well, nothing yet. A highway-speed sedan that Miles hopes to sell 9,000 of in 2010 is visually just ...
Miles EV raises millions in Series B fundraising round 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Miles Electric Vehicles Inc. is still working on the highway-speed XS500 and to make that vehicle a success the company will need lots of money. A story on peHub said that Miles EV is about to close a $40 million Series B funding round, but the reality isn't quite as clear cut as that. Kara ...
Former Miles COO Jeff Boyd moves over to Ruff and Tuff Electric Vehicles 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The last time we spoke with Jeff Boyd, he was still COO of Miles Electric Vehicles. This week, though, Ruff and Tuff Electric Vehicles (RTEV) announced that Boyd will take over as president of RTEV's Wheego Street Division. Regular readers will remember Ruff and Tuff as the makers of the Hunter 4x4 ...
Montana resort buys 18 Miles EVs 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click to see more of the Miles EVs in Montana Montana mountains, big sky and 18 all-electric Miles vehicles. That's the promise of The Resort at Paws, an "upscale wilderness retreat" (the contradiction of that phrase makes my head hurt) in Greenough, Montana that recently purchased 18 Miles ...
Hafei Saibao EV passes crash test; good news for Miles' XS500 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Sometimes a tiny nugget of information with sizable implications can slip by in the truckloads of news we sift through everyday. Just yesterday, for instance, there was a small mention in the China Real News of an "high-speed Hafei Saibao electric car" passing an Insurance Institute for Highway ...
Miles EVs doing Mile High duty for Dems in Denver 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge It's not all beer-powered trucks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. Aside from the Daily Show's interest in electric vehicles and Daryl Hannah, there are more alternatives in action. Like the pure electric vehicles from Miles EV that are in town to help ...
American electric car companies prefer Project Fastr Blastr to Project Better Place 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Project Better Place has been making lots of headlines with their plan to create a battery swapping and charging infrastructure in different countries. At the recently held Alternative Fuels and Vehicles conference, a panel of representatives from some American electric car makers suggested they ...
AFVI 2008: Miles, GEM and Phoenix share EV product line-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge This week, at the AFVI Expo, I moderated a panel on the roll-out of electric vehicle products from Miles EV, Phoenix Motorcars and GEM. The representatives were Bryon Bliss, vice president of sales and marketing for Phoenix, Jeff Boyd, COO of Miles, and Richard Kaspar, GEM's ...
Miles to donate electric car to Ball State University 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Last fall, Miles Electric Vehicles and No Gas Required launched a contest for college students to create videos extolling the virtues of alternative fuel vehicles. The winners of the contest would receive a $1,000 scholarship for themselves and their school would receive a Miles ZX40S neighborhood ...
Kevin Czinger: Miles Electric Vehicles' new president and CEO 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Miles Electric Vehicles has a new CEO. Formerly a senior executive at companies like Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Bertelsmann AG, Kevin Czinger took over the President and CEO position last Thursday. Tech Confidential says that former CEO Jeff Boyd will take over the COO spot, "where he will focus ...
Miles ZX40ST Work Truck introduced in Sacramento today 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/The_highly_anticipated_zero_emissions_work_truck'; It's been a month since we last wrote about Miles Automotive. Most of our recent coverage of the electric car company has revolved around the sounds-too-good-too-be-true XS500, a highway speed all-electric ...
Miles Automotive CEO: XS500 "a little over a year" from release, cross-over and other models planned 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
In an interview by Industry Standard, Miles Automotive CEO Jeff Boyd said the all-electric X500 is "a little over a year" from release. Industry Standard asked what Boyd thought about competition from plug-in hybrids and he replied that he was not aware of any plug-in close to production. Boyd then ...
Miles EV finds $15m funding for high-speed electric car 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The team at Miles Automotive has just taken a big step toward making their XS500 electric sedan a reality thanks to $15 million in new funding. Los Angeles-based Angeleno Group led the latest funding round for Miles. The XS500 is a highway-speed-capable battery electric sedan that Miles is ...
Miles XS500 will be a lot more expensive than planned, maybe 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
In spite of all the attention that Tesla has drawn in the electric vehicle space over the last two years, few of us will ever be able to afford a Roadster or the WhiteStar. One ray of hope that many have been able to hang onto for an affordable all speed electric car was the XS500 from Miles ...
New picture of Javlon from AllGreenVehicles, Miles' new EU distributer 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I was browsing through the website for AllGreenVehicles, Miles Electric's new EU distributer and I found a new picture of Javlon, a highly-anticipated electric car. From the text on the building in the background, it appears to be in China, the last location I caught up with this slippery electric ...
First street-legal Miles ZX40S on the road in Bellingham 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The Bellingham Herald has published the story of the first family who have purchased a Miles ZX40S and is already driving it on the road. The car, which is classified as a NEV (although the mother quietly said she's driven it to 41 mph, which is a bit confusing, since most NEVs have an ...
Videos: NY Mayor Bloomberg test drives Javlon, Popular Mechanic test drives Aptera 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video above shows New York mayor Bloomberg speaking in China and saying he will test drive Miles Automotive's Javlon electric car. Recently, we told you early versions of the car had rolled off the production line and the company was checking them out in China. Below is a video about another ...
New York Mayor Bloomberg test drives Miles Automotive's Javlon in China 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
According to CNET, the first prototypes of Miles Automotive's Javlon have come off the production line in China and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a chance to test drive one of them. CNET also reports the prototypes will come to the states in a few months, the Javlon will cost $35,000 and ...
Montana ZENN dealer Eco Auto talks to Electric Cars Are For Girls 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Readers who click through all of the links that we offer you in a day might remember Ron Gompertz, the owner of Eco Auto, Inc. He was mentioned in an article on MSNBC about eco-car dealers in the U.S. Lynne Mason over at Electric Cars Are For Girls has gotten hold of Gompertz for a lengthy Q&A ...
Miles Automotive's "No Gas Required" contest entries begin showing up on YouTube 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Back in October, we wrote about Miles Automotive's new partnership with the environmental web site No Gas Required that would take the form of a video competition for college and university students. Entrants were asked to make a video on the "no gas required" theme to try and win a Miles electric ...
Miles Automotive plugs in an all-new web site 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you're in the market for an electric vehicle and you want to check out specs and see what's available, Miles Automotive has launched an all new site. The new virtual showroom has pics and specs on their current lineup of low-speed neighborhood electric vehicles and their upcoming XS500 ...
C-NET tries to count all the electric car start-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
C-NET's Michael Kanellos did a little thinking out loud this week when he tried to list all of the electric car start-up companies (not major automakers working on EVs). He counted 16 small companies. The names on this list will be familiar to just about anyone who reads AutoblogGreen, but I ...
AutoblogGreen videos: Tesla Motors and Miles Automotive at Green the Capitol Office Expo 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Below the fold are two videos of electric car companies that made an appearance at the Green the Capitol Office Expo. The first video is Miles Automotive showing me around their currently available, low speed electric vehicle. The tour of the Miles electric car includes a look at the batteries, ...
Miles Automotive tried to stop Tesla from getting "advanced air bag" exemption 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Recently, I wrote about a small, public fight between Aptera and Tesla over safety. It was just a few remarks and there are just a handful of electric car companies. Could they actually be fighting each other behind the scenes? Yes, and the fights have apparently gotten really serious. According to ...
Miles Automotive giving five electric cars to colleges for video contest 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Miles Automotive announced that they are teaming up with the environmental web site No Gas Required on a video competition for college and university students. Based on the description on the website it appears that entrants should create a video to promote electric vehicles and how they can help ...
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Miles Rubin, eternal optimist, interviewed on NPR 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
NPR's Elizabeth Shogren spent a morning with Miles Rubin recently, and has a report on the man and his electric machines. The result is a 5:30 minute piece that succinctly captures the current electric vehicle market and Miles Electric Vehicles' place in it. We also hear from David Cole, Chairman ...
