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- Web of Lawsuits Surrounds Tesla, Fisker Debuts
- Web of Lawsuits Surrounds Tesla, Fisker DebutsFisker Receives Poor ReviewsIf you've never heard of Fisker before, it's a company founded by Hendrik Fisker, the former Director of Design for Aston Martin. He's responsible for the DB-9 and the AM-V8 Vantage, two cars that I absolutely love. Basically, Fisker's...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- 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
- With GM Suffering, Will the Volt Plug In?
- General Motors’ economic woes are deepening, with the company’s auditors saying that its continued survival is in “substantial doubt.†Among many other serious issues, that raises questions about the future of one of the company’s most touted products, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle. The Volt...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- 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
- Tesla, Fisker in Battle Over Trade Secrets
- Tesla, Fisker in Battle Over Trade SecretsRE: Tesla, Fisker in Battle Over Trade Secrets"The car companies, even bitter rivals like Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors" yeah they really are. But I'll go for Toyota since Toyota Parts isn't hard to find and inexpensive. :D
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- One Round to Fisker in Tesla Lawsuit
- One Round to Fisker in Tesla LawsuitRE: One Round to Fisker in Tesla LawsuitThis still has a long way to go. Lawsuits like this take years before being settled. I just hope that justice will be served. -Cargo LinersRE: One Round to Fisker in Tesla LawsuitThis still has a long...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Hybrid Cars: 5 Luxury Models to Test-Drive
- If you want to buy a hybrid, you don?t have to settle for an econobox. These gorgeous, gussied-up green vehicles are as luxurious as anything on the road. The only hitch: They aren?t as environmentally friendly as you might expect. Here?s a headlight-to-headlight comparison to help...
- Articles 2009-11-06
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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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Official Launch of New American Car Company: FISKER COACHBUILD, LLC.
- NEWPORT BEACH, California, January 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler announce the opening of a new luxury car company, FISKER COACHBUILD, based in Southern California to appeal to the global market. The objective of FISKER COACHBUILD is to...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- 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
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