Fisker Inc., headed by Danish Henrik Fisker, is far from satisfied with the Ocean owner who lent his car to YouTuber Marques Brownlee.
Marques Brownlee, who is followed on YouTube by more than 18.5 million people, did not have very nice things to say about Fisker Ocean.
And Fisker must have known that. Because the car brand did not want to lend the young American a car for the test. Marques Brownlee got the car instead from a used car dealer.
And Fisker is furious about that. The car dealer who lent the Ocean model can document this. The owner has actually recorded the moment a Fisker representative calls.
And then it fired off with threats. So from Fisker's side.
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– "May I pull your fingernails off as part of an inquisition?" says the Fisker employee, who is clearly not happy with Brownlee's video.
A video which at the time of writing has been viewed more than 4.4 million times on YouTube. After the fingernail threat, Fisker wants to know who the used car dealer sold the car to.
Fisker has not yet officially addressed whether threatening used car dealers is something the employees appreciate every day. But it doesn't look like it.
Fisker generally doesn't do that. Recently, the brand itself has announced that it risks running out of money within the next 12 months, and that it is therefore in negotiations with another car brand. Read more about it here .
Fishers must also fire approx. 15 percent of all employees, and if it fails to inject additional capital, Fisker 'cannot guarantee its own survival'.
All in all, Fisker is a company that burns through the money in a flash. It is not many months ago that the brand received DKK 1.4 billion from a 'secret investor'.
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