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- Fisker to buy GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids
- California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the firm’s Project NINA affordable plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV. ...
- Articles 2009-10-27
- Tesla, Fisker in Battle Over Trade Secrets
- Considering how often auto executives jump ship to a competitor, which is quite often, it's a wonder there aren't a lot more charges of "industrial espionage" flying around. The latest case involves the high-profile, electric-car upstart Tesla Motors, which on April 14 filed suit in the Superior Court of California...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- One Round to Fisker in Tesla Lawsuit
- Fisker Automotive won a round in its legal fight with Tesla Motors, as a judge in San Mateo (Calif.) Superior Court on June 11 granted Fisker's motion to stay Tesla's suit against Fisker, and send the case to arbitration. Tesla Motors sued Fisker on April 14. Tesla...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Valmet in Finland to Produce "Instant" Karma?
- Fisker Automotive named Valmet in Uusikaupunki, Finland, to build its $80,000 Fisker Karma sports car, a plug-in hybrid. With just over a year to go before the Karma is supposed to go on sale, there's not much time. In other words, with apologies to John Lennon, it better be an...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Government Money: Fisker Outshines Tesla, Europe Challenges America
- The Department of Energy, in its new capacity as Santa Claus for cleantech, has just finished allocating another billion dollars in grants and loans to various companies. As usual, the breakdown of who got what is rather interesting. Coming in with the big win is Fisker Automotive,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Are Tesla and Fisker Too Small to Succeed?
- Is the Obama Administration misspending the government’s money on startups such as Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive? That’s the contention of an October 12 BusinessWeek article, which quotes longtime analyst Maryann Keller as saying, “We’re pouring $1 billion into two companies without a future. The economics of the industry favors...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Fisker Stars in Rebirth of Shuttered Delaware GM Plant
- At 10 a.m. tomorrow, Vice President Joe Biden will stand with Delaware Governor Jack Markell inside General Motors’ shuttered Boxwood plant in Wilmington and make an announcement that will surprise absolutely no one: Fisker Automotive, the former Delaware senator will say, is buying the plant to make its $46,000 Project...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
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- Fisker to buy former Solstice/Sky plant for $18 million:
- The old General Motors plant in Delaware that until July cranked out sports cars for Pontiac, Saturn and Opel will be sold and retooled to build plug-in hybrids with UAW workers. Fisker Automotive said Tuesday that it will buy the plant, located in Wilmington, Del., from Motors Liquidation Co.--the old...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Web of Lawsuits Surrounds Tesla, Fisker Debuts
- Fisker Automotive Inc. maintains that its plug-in hybrid sports car, the Karma, is still on track for delivery starting in the fourth quarter of 2009. That would be a minor miracle, regardless of an April 14 lawsuit in which rival Tesla Motors claims Fisker Automotive took some...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Fisker Defends Its Business Model: Small is Beautiful
- In a second installment of our look at carmakers possibly being too small to make it in the marketplace, we’ve fielded a detailed response from Fisker Automotive. As you may recall, the first story reported on a BusinessWeek commentary by longtime industry analyst Maryann Keller, who said...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Detroit Auto Show: Henrik Fisker on Start-Up Pros, Cons
- If he can pull it off, Henrik Fisker of Fisker Automotive could be the first guy to put his own name on a start-up car company and make it into production since the late John DeLorean did it in the late 1970s. You can't do that if you're a shrinking violet...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Fisker to convert a GM plant in Delaware to build plug-in hybrid cars.
- Posted by: David Welch on October 26 Out with the old, in with the new. California electric-car startup Fisker Automotive will announce plans tomorrow to turn an old General Motors plant in Wilmington (Dell.) into a hybrid electric-car plant. Fisker plans to use the 52-year-old factory to build its $48,000...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Palm Beach Motor Cars Limited, Inc. is Appointed as One of South Floridaâ??s Charter Dealers of Fisker Automobiles
- PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Palm Beach Motor Cars Limited, Inc. PBMC has been appointed as one of the first Fisker Automotive retailers...
- Research articles 2009-03-26
- Fisker Claims Victory in Tesla Lawsuit
- Fisker Automotive denied all along that it lifted any ideas from rival Tesla Motors. Now Fisker says that an arbitrator agrees with Fisker, in Tesla's lawsuit against Fisker. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Fisker buys GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids
- California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the NINA plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV. The car...
- Articles 2009-10-27
- More Court Battles Slow Tesla Down
- It turns out that Tesla Motors, which filed suit against Fisker Automotive Inc. on April 14, was sued earlier by Magna Powertrain USA Inc., according to court records. The two cases aren’t directly related, but the lawsuits go to show that developing a new car from scratch is not for...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Breaking News: Biden to discuss future of GM plant
- Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce that a California luxury automaker will build plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at a former GM plant. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday that a California luxury automaker will build plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at a former General Motors...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Bright's Big Plug-In Hybrid Production Plans (Conversions, Too)
- When President Obama announced on the campaign trail that he wanted to see a million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015, peopleâ€"especially in the auto industryâ€"thought he was dreaming. One company that is taking the goal seriously reports Autoblog.com, is Bright Automotive, which thinks it can, all by itself, make more...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Big Green Claims for the Fisker Karma Supercar
- The Fisker Karma will be at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, and the Irvine, California-based company is claiming very strong green credentials for its ultra-fast (zero to 62 in six seconds) plug-in hybrid supercar. Using Society of Automotive Engineers SAE calculators, Fisker says it gets 67.2...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Plug-In Hybrid Maker Bright Automotive Still Struggling to Raise Funding
- INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANAâ€"John Waters, President of Bright Automotive, stops the car in an industrial pocket of Indianapolis and gestures at a nondescript building. “Right there is where we built the batteries for the General Motors EV-1 battery car. In that building, we tested the first large-format lithium-ion batteries that were used on the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
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