Fisker Automotive
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Fisker Automotive still hasn't seen fit to let more than a small handful of journalists drive its extended-range electric 2012 Fisker Karma luxury sports sedan, and not yet on public roads. But founder Henrik Fisker continues to wax eloquent about the company's future plans. At the launch of the 2012 Karma, he said that a new--and previously unseen--Fisker model will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and go on sale next year. This maps neatly to the plans of arch-rival Tesla Motors, which is expected to show the follow-on to its Model S electric sedan this fall. That...
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First 2012 Fisker Karma Electric Car Delivered, Finally, To Investor Ray LaneAfter multiple delays and slipped deadlines, you might be forgiven for assuming it would never happen. But it did. Fisker Automotive has delivered one of its first production cars, a 2012 Fisker Karma extended-range electric sports sedan, to a paying customer. The video below shows the handover two...
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First Fisker Karma To DiCaprio, 3,000 Orders Behind Him, CEO Says
Fisker Automotive says it will, finally, deliver its first 2011 Fisker Karma range-extended electric sports sedan later this month. The lucky recipient, it turns out, will be none other than actor Leonardo DiCaprio. He's the man who kicked off the whole hybrids-for-Hollywood-stars trend, by showing...
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Think Went Thunk: What Does Electric-Car Bankruptcy Teach Us?
A little more than three weeks ago, Norwegian electric-car maker Think Global declared bankruptcy--for the fourth time, actually. In a pithy piece published a week later, Pike Research analyst Dave Hurst suggested a few lessons that can be learned from Think's latest collapse. The entire article...
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Fisker To Hire 120 At Delaware Plant For 'Project Nina' Second Model
Although its much-delayed first model, the 2011 Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedan, hasn't quite reached dealers yet, Fisker Automotive is powering ahead. The company announced today that it would post job listings for what will be roughly 120 positions at its Wilmington, Delaware, assembly...
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2011 Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid: Sales Now To Start In July
Much attention and too little perspective has been focused on the monthly sales reports for the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, the first mass-market plug-in electric cars. But electric-car fans still eagerly await the always-imminent arrival of another production car with a plug, the 2011 Fisker Karma...
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According to startup plug-in hybrid maker Fisker Automotive, production of its 2011 Fisker Karma luxury sports sedan recently started in Finland. The company says it is focusing on delivering cars to dealers, so aside from giving a very small handful of journalists some quick driving time within the confines of a race track, Fisker has largely ignored the automotive media. So we can't tell you anything at all about what the car is like to drive, or ride in, or how well it performs, or what its real-world gas mileage is. But at least we know that founder Henrik Fisker has a thing for royalty...
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Luxury Hybrid Maker Fisker Automotive Raises Extra $100 Million
Fisker Automotive, which manufactures luxury plug-in electric hybrid cars, has raised an extra $100 million in its third round of funding to help fund production of its luxury sedan and a second, cheaper electric car that is geared toward more mainstream hybrid electric car buyers. The 2011 Fisker...
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