{"id":217919,"date":"2010-01-20T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2010-01-20T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T12:56:22","slug":"fisker-raises-115-3m-for-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217919","title":{"rendered":"Fisker raises $115.3M for electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-fi-fisker19-2010jan19,0,5670738.story\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-01\/51717918.jpg\" width=\"308\" align=\"right\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/01\/19\/7\/\" >GreenWire<\/a>: The electric car developer Fisker Automotive Inc. has raised $115.3 million in private capital, funding that will allow the automaker to tap $528.7 million in conditional federal loans granted to it last year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/doe\">U.S. Energy Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The federal loans and private funds will help Fisker develop the Karma, the firm&#8217;s first plug-in hybrid car. The Karma, expected to retail for $87,900, will in turn lead to a lower-cost hybrid sedan, currently developed under the name Project Nina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raising $115 million in these times speaks volumes about the value of our business model and the vast potential of plug-in hybrids,&#8221; said Henrik Fisker, the company&#8217;s CEO, who became famous for designing several BMW and Aston Martin car models.<\/p>\n<p>While the Karma will be assembled in Finland using mostly U.S. parts, the Project Nina sedan is expected to be built in Wilmington, Del., at a former General Motors Co. plant. Production of the sedan, which may cost $47,400 less federal tax credits, should begin in 2012 (Jenny Hirsch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-fi-fisker19-2010jan19,0,5670738.story\" ><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 19). <strong>&#8211; PV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3068&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3068\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GreenWire: The electric car developer Fisker Automotive Inc. has raised $115.3 million in private capital, funding that will allow the automaker to tap $528.7 million in conditional federal loans granted to it last year by the U.S. Energy Department. The federal loans and private funds will help Fisker develop the Karma, the firm&#8217;s first plug-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}