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Henrik Fisker Partners With Chinese Firm To Bid For Fisker Automotive?

Green Car Reports

The man after whom electric automaker Fisker Automotive is named, Henrik Fisker, could now be the man who buys back the company as it spirals into bankruptcy.

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Chinese Group Approved To Buy Ailing A123 Systems Battery Firm

Green Car Reports

The decision has been hanging in the balance for some time now, but Chinese auto parts maker Wanxiang Group has finally won approval to buy bankrupt battery maker A123 Systems. Wanxiang Group fought off bids from American company Johnson Controls to buy A123, which supplies electric car batteries to companies like Fisker.

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Comment on Nio to report Q4 earnings on Mar 5 by John Hanna

CN EV Post

We just saw Rivian, Lucid and Fisker all reporting deliveries and revenues that put them, in all frankness, on death row. Lucid, like NIO has some Middle East oil money keeping it afloat for the moment - but the wealthy Arabic investors are businessmen, not sympathizers to Western or Chinese retail investors.

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Kia EV9 wins, Fisker franchises, Tesla tops BYD, leather in EVs: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

The Kia EV9 is Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2024. Fourth-quarter sales results released this past week showed that while Tesla led in 2023 global EV sales , the Chinese automaker BYD pulled ahead of Tesla toward the end of the year. Which company faced a $1.7 billion fine for diesel emissions cheating?

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Will Fisker Get Help From Wanxiang, New A123 Systems Owner?

Green Car Reports

Last week, the Chinese company Wanxiang got U.S. government approval to buy bankrupt lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems. With that underway, will China's largest auto-parts company now turn its sights toward one of A123's biggest customers, Fisker Automotive? That seemed to be the implication from a Reuters article last week.

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Volvo-owners Geely interested in buying Fisker

Green Cars News

Troubled electric carmaker, Fisker has attracted two Chinese suitors; Geely and Dongfeng Motor Group, as the firm looks for a buyer to secure its future. Geely, the firm which bought Volvo from Ford back in 2010, is the favourite to takeover the Californian start-up, best known for its range-extended Karma sports car.

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China EV maker Seres adjusts U.S. plan to fit reality

China EV

Several Chinese EV makers have recently scaled back their U.S. Like many Chinese automakers it started out with a very ambitious plan, and moved quickly. Taylor is not new to working for Chinese companies. The Chinese press really talks about the Cadillac experience a lot. market plans. is on hold for now, he says.

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