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Live transcript from the Boxwood Automotive Plant, Delaware. Vice President Joe Biden and Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker speak.
10:37 Introductions, including Vice President Biden and Henrik Fisker.
10:40 First Speaker, Car Czar Ed Montgomery. He gets his largest applause when he says “This plant will allow us to export electric cars to other countries.”
10:43 Next Speaker, [...]
Admittedly we were curious as well why there was so much press about an announcement that might be happening sometime in the future. Seems like Nick Chambers over at Gas2.0 has put all the pieces together.
But now it all becomes clear why there was this air of mystery about the announcement and why Fisker thought [...]
Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker is a noted car designer. And now he’s trying his hand at running the whole show: his company plans to bring the plug-in hybrid Karma to the market next June.
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Bo over at EVcast was able to get Russell Datz on the phone to talk a little about all the recent events.
Interview Highlights:
Karma is the technology leader that will enable the research needed to create the lower cost next car.
The “Project Nina” name is indicative of going from the old world to the new.
Some reports about [...]
American automaker Fisker Automotive was recently approved for a conditional loan of $528 million by the Department of Energy (DOE). While news reports were mostly factual, some ignored or marginalized the truth, or sensationalized irrelevant aspects of the loan and our company. Fisker Automotive would like to present the facts.
Fisker Automotive is an American car [...]