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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, April 24th. |
| 0:03.8 | Everything evening in less than five minutes. |
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| 0:13.8 | Fisker is at risk of bankruptcy as cash reserves are dwindling. |
| 0:18.1 | Only has about $50 million left in available funds, according to a new |
| 0:22.6 | filing. They were spending about $75 million a month last year. They've made significant staff |
| 0:27.4 | reductions to try and get that under control, but without further investment. Things are not |
| 0:31.6 | looking good at Fisker, as always. My thoughts are with the owners of those vehicles and the staff |
| 0:37.0 | of the company, not necessarily |
| 0:38.6 | the senior management, and obviously those people will be affected if you spend your own hard-earned |
| 0:44.2 | money on these vehicles if the company goes under, doesn't get investment from outside. |
| 0:48.5 | They'll still be drivable, they're not bricks, but that is certainly a leap of faith. |
| 0:53.6 | Those people took and not a fair thing to happen. |
| 0:56.4 | In the inquest of Fisker, I'll be interested to see where some of the fingers points. I have |
| 1:01.7 | my own thoughts. I'll keep them to myself at the moment. BMWs I-4 is getting a design and |
| 1:07.4 | technology update. A new grill on the front, some new interior tech like the new gear |
| 1:13.9 | selector, some new air conditioning vents, all bringing it in line with the current BMW IX1, |
| 1:19.5 | IX3 styling. Tesla is shifting to a new affordable model, but we don't know what that is. I've |
| 1:25.7 | resisted talking about it now until now on the podcast |
| 1:28.0 | because, well, on the earnings call this week with their CEO, Elon Musk, he managed to make |
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