Like Tesla, Fisker aimed to dilute the premium price of electric vehicles into the costs of a high class luxury vehicle.

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Class actions are a vehicle through which individuals harmed by fraudulent conduct of companies and Wall Street firms can seek redress as a large group, thus sharing the costs and expenses, which they could not do if they all brought their own individual suits.

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Despite having world-class battery technology, A123 Systems suffered from a lack of demand for its electric vehicle batteries.

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It also makes clear the further potential of our compact vehicle architecture, which provides the basis for the A- and B-Class models that led the German market in their respective segments in the first quarter of 2013.

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