NYTimes Does Coda and Sees EV Summer of Love in CA

[thankyouOB]

For your reading pleasure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/automobiles/autoreviews/a-bare-bones-electric-car-that-goes-the-extra-mile.html?ref=automobiles" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/automobiles/evs-are-merging-into-californias-traffic.html?ref=automobiles" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and more EV news:
http://www.nytimes.com/autos/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[thankyouOB]

the review starts out nice for the CODA, then it turns into a mild thrashing.
the review makes the CODA sound like the old VW Beetle; noisy and serviceable.

the other story pretty much is an antidote to all that the-EV-is-gong-nowhere stuff that we see linked here often.
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of course, they miss the battery burning story in AZ and TX. but I gotta say I sorta feel -- albeit my bitterness is not directed at the right folks -- that if you get burned in TX that is turnabout and fair play after all the electricity ripoff TX NRG companies did to us in the 90s.
it is one reason I always root against the rangers, and any other pro team from texas.