{"id":753087,"date":"2013-05-24T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=649281"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:43:25","slug":"where-are-they-now-fisker-edition-the-story-gets-even-weirder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753087","title":{"rendered":"Where are they now (Fisker edition)? The story gets even weirder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric car maker Fisker Automotive has yet to file for bankruptcy or find a buyer, but it already has some alum — two former Fisker CEOs — that are working on some unusual projects.<\/p>

Most notably, Reuters reported<\/a> Friday that Fisker founder and former CEO Henrik Fisker has teamed up with Hong Kong mogul Richard Li in an effort to buy Fisker’s remaining $171 million in loans from the Department of Energy, so that Fisker won’t have to go bankrupt. The duo are offering between $25 million and $30 million for the loan, which would represent a discount of 17.5 cents on the dollar.<\/p>

That isn’t the only low-priced bid for Fisker. A competing bid<\/a> is a pre-packaged bankruptcy deal of $20 million from Chinese auto giant Wanxiang and Bob Lutz’s VL Automotive.<\/p>

The other new project comes from Fisker’s former CEO Tom LaSorda, who only led Fisker for about 6 months<\/a>. LaSorda has teamed up with racing investor Roger Penske to create a VC fund called IncWell, according to Bloomberg Business Week<\/a>.<\/p>

LaSorda told the publication<\/a> that they probably wouldn’t invest in electric cars unless “unless I can get a good deal with Tesla,” and also said that they would not invest in another company founded by Henrik Fisker. LaSorda put his own money into Fisker.<\/p>
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