BEIJING - Coda Automotive Inc, a start-up company based in California, will sell its first model - a China-made all-electric sedan - in the US in the second half this year, according to its chief executive Philip Murtaugh.

Based on a four-door, five-seat Hafei car made by a subsidiary of Chang'an Automobile Group, the Coda is assembled in China and adapted to meet the US safety standards, Murtaugh said in a recent news conference in Beijing.