Fisker Inc.
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Automotive Electric Vehicles |
| Founded | October 3, 2016 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Founder | Henrik Fisker (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | eMotion |
| Website | fiskerinc |
Fisker Inc. is an American electric vehicle automaker founded by Henrik Fisker, launched in 2016 and based in California. Fisker Inc. is a relaunch of the Fisker brand, which previously made the Fisker Karma (now the Karma Revero) under Fisker Automotive (founded in 2007; now part of Karma Automotive). Fisker Inc. has said that it will show its first all-electric vehicle in the second half of 2017, a "spiritual successor" to the Fisker Karma, which will have a 400-mile electric range.
On October 3, 2016, Henrik Fisker launched Fisker Inc., an American automaker designing and developing innovative electric vehicles with a longer range and lower cost of batteries. Fisker, the chairman and CEO of Fisker Inc., stated that the company will show its first prototype, a new sporty, spacious, luxury all-electric sedan, in the second half of 2017, which will be a "spiritual successor" to the Fisker Karma electric car. The company will produce a second, mass market, affordable electric vehicle following the first car's launch. Fisker Inc's long-range electric vehicles are targeting a minimum range of 400 miles per charge, which would be a far longer range than any electric vehicle to date. As of October 2016, the longest range electric car is on the high-end version of the Tesla Model S, with 315 miles on a single charge. Fisker first stated in July 2016 that he was interested in designing a fully connected electric car with autonomous driving features and an aesthetically pleasing look, and that for the past two years he had been working "in stealth mode" designing "electric cars of the future."
The company aims to reveal a concept version of its first vehicle in the second half of 2017, featuring double butterfly doors and graphene supercapacitors. It is intended to be a luxury vehicle that will be produced in low volumes. It may be built at VLF Automotive, the American automotive company co-founded by Fisker in 2015 with Bob Lutz and Gilbert Villarreal. Fisker has estimated that the first vehicle could go into production in 2019.
Henrik Fisker spent two years analyzing various battery technologies unseen in other electric cars. Finally, he teamed up with various California scientists through Nanotech Energy to create a joint venture called Fisker Nanotech, with Jack Kavanaugh as chairman. Rather than working with conventional lithium-ion batteries, Fisker Nanotech has teamed up with researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, who have been developing a next-generation lithium-ion battery technology using graphene, that can increase the amount of power stored in a pack, for an increased range and reduced charging time. Fisker Inc would be the first to bring this technology to market. Fisker Nanotech may also sell their proprietary batteries to other OEMs.
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