Fisker Automotive
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| Private Corporation | |
| Industry |
Automotive Luxury Plug-in hybrid cars |
| Fate | Declared bankruptcy in November 2013; assets bought by Wanxiang in February 2014; Henrik Fisker founded Fisker Inc in 2016 assets formed in Karma Automotive in 2014 |
| Founded | August 2007 (as Fisker Automotive) Anaheim, California, U.S. |
| Founder |
Henrik Fisker, Bernhard Koehler |
| Headquarters | Anaheim, California, U.S. |
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Key people
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Tony Posawatz, (CEO) Bernhard Koehler, (COO) |
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Number of employees
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53 (March 2013) |
| Website | FiskerAutomotive.com |
Fisker Automotive, now Fisker Inc was a firm which made the Fisker Karma, which was one of the world's first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. It debuted at the 2008 North American International Auto Show, and first deliveries were in 2011. Production of the Fisker Karma was suspended in November 2012 due to bankruptcy of its battery supplier A123 Systems, with about 2,450 Karmas built since 2011 and over 2000 cars sold worldwide. In February 2014, the company's designs, engineering and manufacturing facility were purchased by Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group. Henrik Fisker retained the Fisker trademarks and the Fisker brand and relaunched Fisker Inc, and so Wanxiang named its new company Karma Automotive.
Henrik Fisker cofounded Fisker Automotive in 2007 with Fisker Coachbuild partner Bernhard Koehler and Quantum Technologies after securing U$ 5.2 Million investment from Gianfranco Pizzuto, an Italian businessman, and Palo Alto Investors. Fisker is responsible for designing many premium cars such as the Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage, Artega GT, and BMW Z8. He also served as design director and sat on the board at Aston Martin.
Before Fisker Automotive, Fisker and Koehler left Aston Martin in 2005 to establish Fisker Coachbuild, in an attempt to revive the art of coach-building automobiles to customer specifications. The Fisker Tramanto and Latigo used chassis and power trains from Mercedes-Benz SL and BMW 6-Series automobiles. Several were purchased, but the business soon gave way to Fisker Automotive, a true automobile manufacturer.
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