In an example provided by the car company, a driver whose car gets a new rating of 36 mpg instead of the original rating of 37 mpg would get reimbursed for 7.5 gallons of gasoline after driving 10, 000 miles.
Spokesman Matt Sloustcher said Coda is going for a four- or five-star New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) rating, which it plans to have in place by next year.
Crash-test footage shows the front of the car folding up like an accordion, giving it a 2.0 point rating, the second lowest of the 28 cars NCAP has examined.