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Another digger provides more research:
"Government investment
In 2010, the United States Department of Energy awarded Fisker a US$529 million green-energy loan, primarily to assist the company in transitioning the Karma, which is assembled in Finland, into the American markets. Fisker collected nearly US$200 million until February 2012, when the government froze the loan, because the company was failing to meet the government's milestones. Three months later, in May, Fisker spokesman Robert Ormisher told ABC News that negotiations with the DOE were ongoing, and "We're hoping for a conclusion fairly soon."[58]"
From Wiki.
Well who do you think owns it know??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Automotive
China..
Those Chinese also bought the battery maker, found this, don't be surprised.
"WASHINGTON – National Republican Party officials are questioning why Hillary Rodham Clinton did not intervene in the controversial 2013 sale of high-tech battery plants in Michigan to a Chinese firm when she was secretary of State and could have done so.Concerns raised
The back-and-forth is the latest chapter in the continuing political fallout from massive government investments in new energy technologies in Michigan and across the nation beginning around 2009 that promised thousands of jobs but which, in many instances, failed to materialize.
It also continues a line of attack against Clinton by her critics regarding her level of involvement — or lack thereof — in foreign purchases of American assets."
https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/06/05/clinton-sale-michigan-china-gop/28525387/
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Oh boy,
"The Fisker and A123 corporate meltdowns are two in a growing list of failed Obama ventures into state-operated entrepreneurialism. Many are related to green energy and environmental enterprises that have proven to be uneconomic. Other U.S.-funded battery and solar technology firms, including high-profile ventures such as Solyndra, have lost billions."
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-obamas-fisker-cliff
"This largesse goes back to then-president George W. Bush, who in 2007 linked electric cars with national security, and signed into law $25 billion in federal loans for carmakers, some of which went into electric-car development. Bush met in the Oval Office with the executives of A123, and gave the company a $6 million grant. President Barack Obama showered more than $4.4 billion on the electric-car and battery-makers.
The Fisker and A123 acquisitions have generated the most criticism. On Feb. 19, two US senators said Fisker’s technology should not be sold to Chinese companies."
https://qz.com/55469/why-chinese-firms-are-smart-to-buy-up-americas-ailing-electric-car-industry/