If all goes as planned, the Coda will become the first mass-produced all-electric sedan for sale in the United States nextfall, with a price tag, after government rebates, of about thirty-two thousand dollars.
With the number of HDD companies likely to fall to 3 by next year (with the Western Digital acquisition of Hitachi GST) it will be interesting to see if either Western Digital or Toshiba (the other HDD manufacturer) will introduce their own hybrid HDD products.