bobfitz2012
20-10-2009, 09:41 PM
I sat in on a focus group for these people a while back:
http://www.codaautomotive.com
Since we killed the electric car, this is the first reasonable attempt at creating a mass-adoption fully electric car that I have seen (essentially, an electric Honda Accord). The people running the focus group were very eager to understand our reaction to the fact that the car will be produced entirely in China. At the time, very limited information was available regarding CODA.
Today, I just received an online survey entitled "The Next Step in Green Driving!" The survey wanted to know how CODA could revolutionize not just the automotive industry, but society in general. CODA wanted to know if I volunteered and organized at the local level or if I wrote to newspapers and congress.
I filled out the questionnaire and then checked out their site. Take a look at the "Who We Are Tab."
http://www.codaautomotive.com/#/who
The Management Team is a grab bag of Car People plus a Chinese Operations guy and a Goldman Sachs CFO. The Board of Directors is a bunch of industrial complex guys (along with more Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley). Finally, the Board of Advisors contains none other than Henry Paulson, Jr., former Clinton Chief of Staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty, and Electric Vehicle guys from Ford, GM, and Lexus (basically the EV people from the Detroit and Japan). Quite the group.
Isn't it interesting? Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, one of the largest private equity funds, a gaggle of heavy industrialists, a Clinton Chief of Staff, and former US Secretary of the Treasury (and architect of the bailouts) all suddenly interested in green products, pushing a Chinese manufactured electric car, and testing the waters for non-traditional consumer support for political agendas.
Hmmm? Maybe Wall Street has figured out a way to pay back all the dough they owe the Chinese.
Perhaps "What's Good for GM is Good For America" is being replaced with "What's Good For CODA is Good For The World."
http://www.codaautomotive.com
Since we killed the electric car, this is the first reasonable attempt at creating a mass-adoption fully electric car that I have seen (essentially, an electric Honda Accord). The people running the focus group were very eager to understand our reaction to the fact that the car will be produced entirely in China. At the time, very limited information was available regarding CODA.
Today, I just received an online survey entitled "The Next Step in Green Driving!" The survey wanted to know how CODA could revolutionize not just the automotive industry, but society in general. CODA wanted to know if I volunteered and organized at the local level or if I wrote to newspapers and congress.
I filled out the questionnaire and then checked out their site. Take a look at the "Who We Are Tab."
http://www.codaautomotive.com/#/who
The Management Team is a grab bag of Car People plus a Chinese Operations guy and a Goldman Sachs CFO. The Board of Directors is a bunch of industrial complex guys (along with more Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley). Finally, the Board of Advisors contains none other than Henry Paulson, Jr., former Clinton Chief of Staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty, and Electric Vehicle guys from Ford, GM, and Lexus (basically the EV people from the Detroit and Japan). Quite the group.
Isn't it interesting? Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, one of the largest private equity funds, a gaggle of heavy industrialists, a Clinton Chief of Staff, and former US Secretary of the Treasury (and architect of the bailouts) all suddenly interested in green products, pushing a Chinese manufactured electric car, and testing the waters for non-traditional consumer support for political agendas.
Hmmm? Maybe Wall Street has figured out a way to pay back all the dough they owe the Chinese.
Perhaps "What's Good for GM is Good For America" is being replaced with "What's Good For CODA is Good For The World."