Wishing Fisker Good Luck with Its New Battery EV, But ….

My only reaction to the new EV offering from Fisker, the “Ocean,” is closer to PTSD than anything else.

About 10 years ago, venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins backed the luxury plug-in hybrid “Karma” to a disastrous end.  I happened to be interviewing one of Kleiner’s most senior managing partners, Ray Lane, in his Menlo Park office at about the time it was becoming uncomfortably clear that the Karma was not going to make it all the way down the runway and cause a financial conflagration as memorable as the Hindenburg.

I scrupulously avoided the topic during my talk with Ray.

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