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Fisker Could Become Operational By 2015
Fisker Automotive, the bankrupt American electric car company co-founded by car designer Henrik Fisker, could come back in 2015.
The Chinese company Wanxiang Corporation, which saved Fisker through a purchase worth around $147 million has expressed its plans to resurrect the company by mid-2015.
Speaking to American newspaper The Detroit News, Fisker President, Roger Brown revealed that a future model will be a smaller-than-Karma sedan called the Atlantic, which was in fact unveiled by the company in 2012 at the New York Auto Show.
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The plan is to restart production of the Karma by mid-2015, which will be followed by a Karma-based Wagon called the Surf in 2016 and then the Atlantic sedan in 2017. The company already has a new website up and running.
Before that can happen, the company has a few hurdles to cross. The first would be setting up a new headquarters. It will then have to find a new CEO, which could happen in a couple of months time and last, but not the least, it is looking to recruit an engineering staff of 200.
Once these are taken care of production could begin at the company's old Delaware facility, though that is something which needs to be finalised.
All said and done, the company is not likely to operate under the ‘Fisker' name the Chinese parent company never acquired the rights to the brand name under the original deal.
Fisker Karma, the only car which the company ever built, was a hybrid electric sedan powered by a turbo-petrol 2.0-litre engine coupled to two electric motors, with a combined power output of 397 bhp and 1300 Nm of torque. The Karma had range of 80 km in pure electric mode and could reach a top speed of 200 km/h.
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