Responsibility for the rest of the Coda the substructure, the electric motors, the body, the interior is all farmed out to automotive suppliers.

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"A structurally deficient condition is a bridge that would have a rating of 4 either in the deck, the superstructure or the substructure, " he said.

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In a radical experiment which he called "building without foundations", he skipped the concrete substructure and instead built the guest wing on a pre-existing natural rock formation.

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When I spoke with big mountain snowboarder Travis Rice in May, he told me that for companies to have any credit in the action sports landscape, they must support the substructure of the lifestyle.

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