Kleiner Perkins says it has closed its next $525 million fund 15 and confirms that cleantech-focused investors Ray Lane and Bill Joy will not be leading investments for the new fund. Read More »
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For the electric car to be a mainstream success it needs to follow the closed Apple model, not the open Google model. Read More »
Electric car startup Fisker Automotive unveiled a design prototype of its second extended-range electric car that is now being called the Atlantic (formerly called Project Nina) at an event in New York City on Tuesday night. Read More »
Electric car maker Fisker Automotive has boosted its fund raising plans by $200 million, according to a filing. The company has now raised around a billion in private funding. Read More »
A year after the Vehicle Production Group (VPG) closed a $50 million Department of Energy loan for designing a natural gas vehicle, the company used the money as planned, began production and is seeing hundreds of vehicles on the road so far. Read More »
Updated: Electric car startup Fisker Automotive pushed its long-delayed inaugural electric car to market before it was market-ready in order to try to meet government milestones, according to a former Fisker employee that left the company. Read More »
Electric car startup Fisker Automotive has named Fisker vice chairman, and former Chrysler Chief Executive, Tom Lasorda as its CEO. Read More »
Despite that electric car startup Fisker Automotive has had its fair share of struggles in recent months, we were really excited to head down to Beverly Hills this week to check out the Fisker Karma. We bring you the Karma test drive! Read More »
Last week an investor, Daniel Wray, who put a couple hundred thousand dollars into electric car company Fisker Automotive, filed a lawsuit against Fisker and Fisker’s fund raiser Advanced Equities. Check out the lawsuit itself: Read More »
How likely is it that electric car company Fisker Automotive will be able to draw down on the remaining $339 million of its Department of Energy loan? According to one analyst, not likely. Read More »
Electric vehicle maker Fisker Automotive announced on Monday that it has halted work on its second electric car called Project Nina at its factory in Delaware, has laid off 26 workers, and is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its loan with the U.S. government. Read More »
Updated. Electric car maker Fisker Automotive issued its second recall of its inaugural car the Karma, this time due to a software malfunction that affected its entertainment and navigation systems, reports Hybridcars. Fisker will also temporarily halt sales of the Karma until the problem is fixed. Read More »
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