Fisker On The Brink? Additional Layoffs Leave Only Maintenance Workers At Factory

Only a small maintenance team is left at Fisker’s Automotive’s Newport-area factory after the start-up carmaker laid off another 12 workers as it attempts to secure more loan funding from the federal government.

The layoffs, which occurred quietly Friday, included Jeff Garland, a deep-rooted Delawarean who was spearheading community affairs and business development efforts across the state for Fisker.

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Steve - 4/17/2012 3:51:36 PM

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Does this shock anyone?

cosi - 4/18/2012 5:23:45 PM

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the Finland plant was part of the DOE deal. The first part of the loan went to the US-made parts of the "Karma" made there. The rest of the loan was for the "nina" to be made in DE. When Solyndra went bust, Obama blinked and froze the DE part. So Fisker fired the DE workers, raised private money, and said, ok, which would you rather do? Restore the loan and take the Fox "green boondoggle" crap, or have the jobs in Biden's district? If you don't do the latter, we're taking bids from other locations for the second production line. Bam so far is fiddling and diddling like he always does.