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Fisker picks distributor to sell Karma in Europe, looking to sell in China
Fisker Automotive announced that it has picked a large distributor to sell its plug-in hybrid vehicles in Europe and is also looking for a similar deal in China. CEO Henrik Fisker said that the company will announce the name of the distributor group as early as Wednesday. It is reported that the distributor has more [...]
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Fisker buys GM plant for $18 million, will build Chevy Volt competitor
As reported yesterday, Fisker Automotive confirmed today that it has purchased General Motors’ Wilmington, Delaware plant, which produced that Saturn Sky, Pontiac Solstice and the Opel GT until July.
Fisker said that it has signed a letter of intent with Motors Liquidation Co., formerly known as the wonderful General Motors Corp. to purchase the Wilmington plant [...]
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Biden to help reopen GM Delaware plant for production of Fisker’s plug-in hybrid sedan
According to reports, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit a closed General Motors plant in his home-state of Delaware where he will announce the reopening of the closed GM Plant in Wilmington that will now produce plug-in hybrid electric-vehicles for Fisker Automotive.
CEO Henrik Fisker is also going to visit the reopening of [...]
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Fisker to announce new North American plant in two weeks, will build new mid-size sedan
Fisker Automotive said that in two weeks it plans to announce which plant in North America will assemble a new mid-size plug-in hybrid sedan in 2012. CEO Henrik Fisker said today that the plant has been chosen but the purchase has not yet been completed.
Sources told The Delaware News Journal that one factory could be [...]
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Fisker says it will only focus on plug-in hybrids, no plans to offer pure EVs
If all goes according to plan, we should see the Fisker Karma released sometime approximately this time next year. The Karma is a plug-in hybrid, a supposed to battery only ‘Electric Vehicles’, and company founder Henrik Fisker believes that will one day be the status quo, with regards to hybrid vehicles.
Supporters of the EV [...]
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Fisker defends $528 million Department of Energy loan
As reported by egmCarTech.com earlier this week, Fox News had reported, in a somewhat skewed manner, on the nearly $530 million Energy Department loan received by Fisker automotive. The Irvine, Calif. based company plans to assemble its $89,000 Karma abroad, though none of the funds will be spent outside of the U.S., as most [...]
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Fox News attacks U.S. Department of Energy loans to Fisker and Tesla
In the past, egmCarTech has reported on loans and funding that Tesla Motors has received from the government to establish facilities in Michigan and California, and now, Fox News has also reported the on the same. Well, kind of.
Hybridcars.com is reporting that, “According to Fox News, the US Department of Energy threw away nearly [...]
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Department of Energy loans Fisker $528 million to produce two plug-in hybrid vehicles
Fisker Automotive announced today that it has received a $528 million conditional loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop two plug-in hybrid vehicles.
About $169 million of the $528 million will allow the company to produce its Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sedan. While assembly of the $87,900 ($80,400 after US government tax credits) Fisker Karma will be [...]
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Report: Fisker to announce $39,000 plug-in hybrid later this week, or next week
According to Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins investor, and former President of Oracle, Fisker is preparing to announce plans to build a $39,000 plug-in hybrid vehicle later this week or next week. Lane let the new slip at the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in Sausalito, Calif. earlier this week.
Does that mean Fisker has received funding from the Department [...]
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Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid to average 67.2 mpg
Fisker announced today that its Karma plug-in hybrid electric sedan will emit just 83g CO2/km and will return an estimated fuel-economy of 3.5L/100km (67.2 mpg according to U.S. standards) based on SAE methodology measuring emissions for plug-in hybrid.
Not bad at all for a vehicle that pumps out 403-hp and more torque than many supercars. 0 [...]
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