Editor’s note: This article has been updated with Fisker’s response.
Certain former employees of beleaguered EV maker Fisker Inc. (OTC:FSRN) are reportedly of the opinion the company was not ready to sell cars in the first place.
What Happened: Fisker did not plan for a stockpile of car parts in the U.S. in case of repairs, InsideEVs reported, citing unnamed former Fisker employees. The company instead relied on sourcing components from disassembled cars, they said.
"It became very clear to anybody looking that this was a company not ready for prime time—to sell a product, to have any kind of customer service," a former employee told the news site.
Fisker only bought enough parts for production and not repairs. So when Ocean customers started coming back with requests for repairs and part replacement, the company took it from the company’s production factory in Austria and ...