{"id":2535,"date":"2013-04-19T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2013-04-19T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T15:31:01","slug":"the-cars-catching-on-fire-probably-had-something-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/19\/the-cars-catching-on-fire-probably-had-something-to-do-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The cars catching on fire probably had something to do with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Tesla Motors expects its  <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/04\/tesla-motors-announces-that-its-finally-profitable\/\">first profitable quarter<\/a> (despite some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/124900\/Now-watch-this-drive\">bad press<\/a>),<br \/>\nthe electric car competitor it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2008\/04\/sparks-fly-as-t\/\">unsuccessfully sued for stealing its technology<\/a>, Fisker Automotive,<br \/>\nteeters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/afontevecchia\/2013\/04\/05\/with-frozen-doe-loan-payment-looming-electric-automaker-fisker-auto-lays-off-workforce-reports\/\">brink of insolvency<\/a>. How did Fisker, a company valued at over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/jeremy-quittner\/billionaire-club-fisker.html\">$1 billion<br \/>\ndollars<\/a> at the beginning of 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/17\/a-look-under-the-hood-why-electric-car-startup-fisker-crashed-and-burned\/\">end up in this sitation?<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privco.com\/fisker-automotives-road-to-ruin\">A Timeline of Fisker&#8217;s Rise and Fall<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=dt1Ei7OB4UM:Y3IvS1aYAvQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=dt1Ei7OB4UM:Y3IvS1aYAvQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/127195\/The-cars-catching-on-fire-probably-had-something-to-do-with-it\">http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/127195\/The-cars-catching-on-fire-probably-had-something-to-do-with-it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Tesla Motors expects its first profitable quarter (despite some bad press), the electric car competitor it unsuccessfully sued for stealing its technology, Fisker Automotive, teeters on the brink of insolvency. How did Fisker, a company valued at over $1 billion dollars at the beginning of 2013, end up in this sitation? A Timeline of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/19\/the-cars-catching-on-fire-probably-had-something-to-do-with-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The cars catching on fire probably had something to do with it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,950,79],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-meowzilla","tag-metafilter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-ET","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}