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The Fisker would have succeeded without Pubs. They tried to kill the Volt, too, with total bs. The GOP is a disgrace.
Fisker failed because it sucked. It was under engineered and sacrificed function for form. As usual you blame others for the failures of those you favor while ignoring all the idiotic decisions your hero's made.
"Joe insists that the company achieved its goals and had the engineering know-how to truly succeed. "The goal was to bring to market a unique car with exceptional styling with the most efficiency that it could provide within the limitations of the design. And design was always the priority."
One of the major factors that brought Fisker Automotive to its current precarious state was the collapse of battery supplier A123 Systems. Joe emphasizes that the none of the Karmas produced suffered a powertrain or battery failure that was the result of a design or chemistry problem. The battery failures that did occur were a direct result of a manufacturing problem at A123's Livonia, MI factory.
Fisker had to stop producing cars last summer while A123 scrambled to produce replacement batteries for those early cars. It was then that A123 simply ran out of financial runway and had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Among other things, that led to more than 300 Karmas sitting at a port in New Jersey last fall waiting for replacement batteries right when hurricane Sandy blasted through."
Fisker Automotive Closure - Fisker Inside on Last Days of Company