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...The so-called private investment in the public equity transaction includes tech financier Ian Osborne’s Hedosophia, and Fisker, the electric vehicle start-up that went public in October via Apollo’s first...
...Fisker, an electric car company that went public via an Apollo-backed Spac and has a $4bn valuation, currently has no revenue....
...While we’re at it, there’s another Spac deal that landed today — Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp, backed by Apollo Global Management, acquired electric carmaker Fisker in a $2.9bn deal....
...From Fisker to Coda, the car industry is littered with failed start-ups. Qoros is hoping to avoid the same fate....
...High-profile flameouts like Solyndra, A123 Systems, Konarka, Miasole, Better Place and Fisker Automotive have, appropriately enough, made investors very wary....
...Batteries are still too heavy and too unreliable, while the very public demises of Better Place, which pioneered switchable batteries for electric vehicles, and Fisker Automotive, a Californian company that...
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