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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Fisker: No Gas, All Brakes

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, a billion bucks just isn’t enough to kickstart the engine. (00:21) Asit Sharma and Mary Long discuss Fisker’s bankruptcy and Wells Fargo’s latest credit card bet. Then, at (17:22), Ailson and Bro tackle the listener mailbag, answering questions about retirement distributions, target date funds, and commodities. Learn more about the Range Rover Sport at www.landroverusa.com Got a question for Alison and Bro? Email it to podcasts@fool.com Companies discussed: FSRN, TSLA, WFC, GSG, DBC, GLD Host: Mary Long Guests: Asit Sharma, Alison Southwick, Robert Brokamp Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The big dogs are big for a reason. You're listening to Motley Full Money. I'm Mary Long joined today by Osset Sharma.

0:23.5

Osset, thank you for spending a part of your day with us on Motley Full Money.

0:26.8

Mary, it's always the best part of the day.

0:29.4

Thanks for having me.

0:30.9

Good part of the day for us, but not so much the case for some other companies.

0:34.4

Today we have two stories of unsuccessful, I'm gonna say.

0:38.8

The first is with the Electric Vehicle Company Fisker.

0:42.0

They filed for bankruptcy the pitch with

0:44.4

fixer was that it could emulate Tesla success and have a cheaper faster entry into the

0:48.8

auto industry and that it would do this largely by outsourcing its manufacturing.

0:53.5

The first vehicle called the Ocean SUV

0:56.4

ran for 360 miles on a single charge,

0:58.5

had a sweet design and a sticker price of under $40,000.

1:02.5

The car's rollout was not the smoothest,

1:04.9

but we'll get to that in a bit.

1:06.7

Finance is ultimately what hurt Fisker here.

1:08.7

The company raised a billion dollars

1:10.4

to launch operations, burned through almost all of its cash reserves, defaults on a debt with a key investor.

1:16.0

What's your initial reaction to this to all this?

1:19.0

Mary, you know, for me this just drives home that in the EV market either you need scale or you need

1:26.5

capital so either you need a huge amount of production capability in hand with with some demand behind that or you need a lot of money and you

1:35.4

know you need money to get scale. One billion dollars is my other thought that's a

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