More Bad News For Fisker: Geely Pulls Out of Bidding
19 Mar 2013, 10:35 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With Henrik Fisker signing his resignation just last week, Fisker Automotive has a serious case of jeopardy on its hands after Geely decided to back out of the bidding process. Struggling since D...
Did "The Game" Get Run Over by a Fisker Karma?
28 Feb 2013, 16:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / American rapper The Game just posted this photo of him becoming instant "#RoadKill laid out in front of my 2013 cranberry FISKER "KARMA". Don't worry guys, the guy's just...
Fisker Sold to China's Dongfeng for $350 Million?
18 Feb 2013, 09:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While Henrik Fisker has denied any comment on accepting Chinese investors for his automotive company, the latest reports are hinting on a $350 million bid from Dongfeng Motor Corp. According to B...
Fisker Desperately Searching for Outside Help
28 Jan 2013, 14:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Green US automaker Fisker seems to be in deep trouble. After announcing earlier that they were seeking investors and a possible partnership with a major mainstream automaker, they have now announced...
Fisker Production Has Been Paused for the Last Six Months
21 Jan 2013, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker has gone through a lot last year, after encountering several fire-related problems, the low-volume automaker lost 300 of its Karma range-extender EVs, which were 'drowned' in the Ne...
Fisker Sues Insurance Company Over the 338 Drowned Karmas
3 Jan 2013, 12:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Following the loss of 338 Karmas, which were reportedly in transit through the New Jersey port on the day when Superstorm Sandy struck, the US automaker lost the equivalent of $100 million. However,...
Soap Opera Actress Tracey Bregman Drives a Fisker Karma
18 Dec 2012, 15:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Honestly, celebrities and green cars almost always go hand in hand, especially when people are concerned about their public image. They can usually drive a gas-guzzling SUV, but for when the paparaz...
Fisker to Resume Production Only After A123 Sale Completes
12 Dec 2012, 14:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Green automaker Fisker was forced to stop production of its range-extender hybrid Karma, following the bankruptcy of their sole supplier of battery packs, A123 Systems Inc., and now that the company...
Jay Leno Invites Henrik Fisker Over to Talk About the Karma EV
11 Dec 2012, 10:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fisker Karma has already been on sale for a while now, and despite the fact that production is currently stopped due to a battery pack shortage, there is still demand for the range-extender luxu...
Fisker Looking for Mainstream Automaker to Share Technology With
11 Dec 2012, 09:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker is currently not building any cars, due to a shortage of battery packs, caused by the bankruptcy and the sale of their sole supplier, A123 Systems, which was taken over by Wanxiang, from Chin...
Chinese Company Wanxiang Gets Approval to Buy A123 Systems
30 Nov 2012, 09:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker has paused production of their Karma, which is currently being made at the Valmet factory, in Finland, due to the fact that they are close to running out of the huge lithium-ion battery packs...
No Batteries, No Production! Fisker Awaiting A123 Battery Plant Sale
30 Nov 2012, 08:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker Automotive Inc. has stopped production of the Karma luxury plug-in hybrid, due to the fact that their sole provider of batteries, A123 Systems Inc. has gone bust, and is now awaiting a new ow...
Fisker to Build Technical Center in South Michigan
16 Nov 2012, 13:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker Automotive has just announced today that they will be building a new technical center, somewhere in the Midwest, with south Michigan being the most likely area for its construction. The new f...
Fisker Karma First Spotting in Dubai
9 Nov 2012, 13:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This is the Fisker Karma, the best looking electric vehicle you can get for $100,000 In fact, the Karma is one of the best looking cars you can get at any price, and that’s because it was desi...
Fisker Planning to Make Chevy Volt Rival
9 Nov 2012, 11:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Chevrolet Volt is truly a force to be reckoned with, and a ‘green’ effort GM should really be proud of, however, they have attracted a lot of attention, and other manufacturers will ...
Fisker Loses 300 Cars in New Jersey Port - $30-Million Loss
8 Nov 2012, 09:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Green automaker Fisker is reporting loses of $30- (€23.5-) million, following the flooding of New Jersey port, earlier this week. Aside from the 16 cars which suffered extensive fire damage, ye...
Sandy Takes its Toll - Around 200,000 Cars Ruined
8 Nov 2012, 09:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Superstorm Sandy really hit the US hard, and while it wasn’t as devastating as Katrina, it still caused sizable damage to personal property, including cars - 200,000 of them, in fact, accordin...
Fisker Completes Investigation of New Jersey Port Incident - Batteries Not to Blame, Again!
6 Nov 2012, 10:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that whenever some ‘green’ vehicle bursts into flames, people always assume that ‘it must be the battery pack’, and as it has been proven time and again, that really...
Superstorm Sandy Makes 16 Fisker Karma EVs Catch Fire in New Jersey Port
31 Oct 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The streak of sheer bad luck does not seem to end for Fisker, as Superstrom Sandy has just drowned a reported 16 examples of their Karma, which then reportedly caught fire, according to the temporar...
Fisker Karma Coming to 2012 SEMA Show
24 Oct 2012, 08:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With no body kit on the market and very few tuner willing to chop up a $100,000 luxury automobile, Fisker basically had to tune the Karma all by itself for this year’s SEMA Show. To show ho...