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DOE Closes $529 mln Loan for Fisker Automotive
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The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the closing of a $528.7 million loan to Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
The loan will support the Karma, a full-size, four-door luxury plug-in sports sedan, and a line of family oriented models being developed under the company’s Project NINA program.The California-based will use $169.3 million to cover the engineering integration costs of the $87,900 Fisker Karma, which will be built in Finland using components sourced from suppliers in the United States.
Most of the funds, however, will be used to retool an old General Motors plant in Wilmington, Delaware, to build a mid-sized plug-in sedan codenamed Project NINA.
Fisker plans to manufacture cars at a Wilmington, Del., plant closed recently by General Motors Co. Fisker expects to employ as many as 2,000 assembly workers, with more jobs to be created among suppliers of parts and services.
The DOE gave conditional loan commitments to Ford ($5.9 billion), Nissan ($1.6 billion) and Tesla Motors ($465 million) as part of the DOE’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program.
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