Kevin Czinger is not a fan of electric cars. Which is perhaps surprising given that little more than 10 years ago Czinger was the CEO of an electric vehicle startup called Coda Automotive. Coda planned to build an affordable electric car for the U.S. market by re-engineering a Chinese sedan called the Hafei Saibao—an utterly unremarkable device based on a late '90s Mitsubishi Lancer—to be powered by a 130-hp motor and a 35-kW-hr battery pack from China's Lishen Battery. Coda Automotive went bust in 2013, almost three years after Czinger stepped down as CEO, having sold just 117 cars. But it's the reason the 1,233-hp, $1.7 million Czinger 21C hypercar exists today.
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