Fisker Automotive, which just appointed Tony Posawatz, the former head of the Volt program at GM, as company’s new CEO, is hoping to raise $150 million in additional funds to remain stable until it launches its second production model. Fisker, which has already raised more than $1 billion private financing from venture backers and others since [...]
When the Fisker Atlantic sedan made its debut at the 2012 New York Auto Show, the idea of an affordable plug-in hybrid sedan gave some boost to Fisker’s image that was being beaten by issues it was having with the launch of the expensive Karma. Check out our original post on the Fisker Atlantic. If [...]
About a month ago, Fisker Automotive’s founder Henrik Fisker decided to step down as CEO and hired the well-known and ex-Chrysler executive Tom LaSorda to steer the company after a bunch of negative press. During the unveiling of the new Fisker Atlantic sedan prototype at the 2012 New York Auto Show, LaSorda shared some of [...]
Fisker Automotive, which has been receiving a handful of bad publicity over its plug-in hybrid Karma sedan, will try to repair its image at the 2012 New York Auto Show with the new Fisker Atlantic sedan. The model, which is comparable in size to the Audi A5, is the latest model in Fisker’s expanding range [...]
We will now take a break from some April Fools Day news (we’re really hoping you can figure out which articles are a prank and which are real), to bring you some serious breaking news. The first two images of the Fisker Atlantic, a model being built under the company’s Project Nina line, have been [...]
The 2012 New York Auto Show is slowly turning out to be quite an interesting show. Fisker Automotive has just announced that it will debut the first model (out of the three) under the Nina umbrella at the 2012 New York Auto Show. Check out more news on the 2012 New York Auto Show. From [...]
Fisker is in a little bit of a bind with its loan from the Department of Energy. As a result, production for the brand’s new Project Nina lineup at the Fisker Automotive plant in Wilmington, DE and 26 workers were laid off. This comes after a rework of Fisker Automotive’s $529 million loan, which was [...]
At the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Fisker unveiled the Surf shooting brake, which enter production in 2013. The firm is reportedly working on a crossover to join the Karma plug-in hybrid sedan and the new Surf shooting brake. An insider has told AutoExpress that a “crossover SUV is definitely on the cards.” The Fisker SUV [...]
During a recent media event ahead of the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Fisker Automotive’s chief operating officer Bernhard Koehler said that the company plans on introducing three new vehicles (plug-in hybrids) based on its Project Nina platform by 2014. The first model will be a mid-sized luxury sedan that will be produced at the company’s [...]
We learned a month ago that Fisker Automotive will debut a new model at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show next week. The company today dropped the name and the teaser of the new vehicle, which will debut in Concept Form at the 64th IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany. No technical details have been released [...]
