FLASHBACK: Obama gave company $500M federal loan for cars built in Finland!

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Vice president Joe Biden, left, and Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive announces that the company will produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the former General Motors Boxwood Plant, Oct. 27, 2009, in Wilmington, Del. (Rob Carr/AP Photo

By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RONNIE GREENE
ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS
Oct. 20, 2011
With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million [...]

ENTIRE LINE OF LUXURY PLUG-INS RECALLED FOR FIRE HAZARD

By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN, NYT

Fisker AutomotiveThe 2012 Fisker Karma.

Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard, according to a report filed with theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Prices on the 2012 model start at $103,000, including the destination charge.

In a report filed recently on the agency’s Web site, Fisker said some hose clamps were not properly positioned, which could allow a [...]