Fisker Surf Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:37:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Fisker Automotive Coming Back, Where or When is Anyone’s Guess https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fisker-automotive-coming-back-anyones-guess-20140422/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fisker-automotive-coming-back-anyones-guess-20140422/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:37:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47120 After the financial collapse of Fisker Automotive, taxpayers and government officials were decidedly upset. Even when Fisker Automotive’s financial assets were put up for auction, including $192 million in loans, people weren’t happy, mostly because an American company couldn’t manage to sway the courts and the loan handlers. Chinese auto parts giant Wanxiang won the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fisker-automotive-coming-back-anyones-guess-20140422/feed/ 0 47120 Wanxiang Group Reinventing Fisker Automotive https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wanxiang-group-reinventing-fisker-automotive-20140310/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wanxiang-group-reinventing-fisker-automotive-20140310/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:35:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46367 Fisker Automotive doesn’t exactly have a long history, being founded just seven years ago, but it surely has been a rough history. Multiple problems beset the company and, in spite of promising extended-range electric vehicle technology, Fisker Automotive eventually ceased all production and declared bankruptcy. Wanxiang America, part of Chinese automobile parts giant Wanxiang Group, […]

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