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...public this June. As one more car to save the planet, the Coda is nice enough. It gets around 100 miles per charge, handles well and - unlike many of its competitors - actually exists in drivable form and not just in a press release. But what really sets the Santa Monica company apart from its fellow dreamers, and what might make this electric car financially viable, isn't the car itself but where it comes from. "We can do this because we don't have the manufacturing infrastructure," says Czinger, Coda's CEO. "We can outsource that...
...original version of this story has been amended. It now emphasizes that Lishen provides hardware manufacturing while Coda provides sales know-how and high-tech expertise. And also, Coda Automotive is based in Santa Monica, Calif., not Silicon Valley as stated...
...public naming of Big Papi has been lamented because of the unique stature Papi had as a beloved, jovial, larger-than-life figure—a Dominican Santa Claus with a hitting prowess sui generis. For a team that serves as the “heart and soul” of a region to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the country, David Ortiz carried the mantle of “heart-and-soul” for the Red Sox with greater gusto than almost any player in the league (perhaps Pujols, Jeter, or Ichiro matches him in this metric...
bipartisanship •belief in is akin to believing in Santa Claus...
Politics, of course, is the main reason Obama is trying to sound more like Santa and less like the Grinch. Cutting costs ultimately means cutting payments to drugmakers, hospitals, doctors, insurers and other influential health lobbies, so it's understandable that he hasn't dwelled on it. Providers like the Mayo Clinic have demonstrated the promise of high-quality, low-cost care, and mounds of research as well as books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste...