"We have looked at many different plants all over the U.S.,” Henrik Fisker was quoted as saying by Autonews. “We have made our decision.”
Fisker recently received a $528.7 million conditional loan from the US Department of Energy, to be used for the manufacturer's Project NINA, the fancy name for the design, engineering and assembly of the Karma. The plant should be ready to begin production by 2012.
To save money and be able to offer a somewhat cheap, high performance PHEV, Fisker will give up on creating special departments in charge with the development of several components and will not use eye-catching, useless technologies.
“We don't ever want to have a door handle department. I'd rather go out to suppliers who deliver door handles to General Motors and buy the base door handle and then design a new cap,” Fisker continued.
“We won't be putting things in the vehicle that the consumer may not need. nstead of a 32-way power seat, we'll use an 18-way seat and no one will notice. We'll spend the money on the powertrain.”
With this strong strategy in mid, Fisker plans to produce 100,000 Karmas every year, with nearly half of them to be exported to Europe and Asia.
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