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The tea leaves are getting somewhat clearer over at
Fisker Automotive with a new report saying the struggling automaker is furloughing its US workers this week, a month before a payment on the company's
$529-million Department of Energy loan is due. Fisker never got the full amount, taking only about $193 million before the funds were frozen.
In a statement to
Reuters, Fisker says not to worry: "This [furlough] is a common practice, particularly in the automotive industry, to manage costs and operations based on current activity levels and commercial requirements." Fisker has 200 workers in the US.
Fisker has not made any of its
Karma plug-in hybrids since July and, two weeks ago, namesake Henrik Fisker
left the company he co-founded. The chance that a Chinese company will come in and rescue the California-based automaker also
appears to be dimming. Early last year, Fisker
laid off a small number of workers because of difficulty in getting production of the
Atlantic model going.
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Fisker furloughs workers for one week, says it's 'common practice' in industry
