Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Chinese companies Geely and Dongfeng are said to be among bidders from "different continents" looking for a controlling stake in troubled automaker Fisker Automotive. Fisker, which has suffered setback after setback over the last few years of its Karma range-extended sedan being on sale, is currently seeking buyers and investors.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2013

The man after whom electric automaker Fisker Automotive is named, Henrik Fisker, could now be the man who buys back the company as it spirals into bankruptcy.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Plus, every car is the Apple Car now, and Fisker gets some U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 6, 2024

Fourth-quarter sales results released this past week showed that while Tesla led in 2023 global EV sales , the Chinese automaker BYD pulled ahead of Tesla toward the end of the year. And some made-in-America EVs like those from Rivian lost half of their credit amount. The plan will include up to 50 dealers in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2019

Chinese-owned, California-based Karma Automotive made clear several years ago that its aspirations go well beyond merely resurrecting production of the car originally known as the Fisker Karma.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 29, 2021

Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production. In 2017 the Fisker Inc. The post Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production appeared first on Promoting Eco Friendly Travel.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 4, 2016

After four years, the car formerly known as the Fisker Karma is back in production under new corporate stewardship. Now called the Karma Revero, it's being relaunched under the aegis of Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang, which bought the remains of Fisker Automotive after the carmaker's 2013 bankruptcy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

Fisker Automotive named former GM’er Tony Posawatz as its new CEO. Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker. Part of my assignment at Fisker was to recruit a long-term CEO and I cannot think of a better person than Tony to take us forward. Fisker also announced the appointment of Alberto Gonzalez as Vice President of Manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Fisker Automotive is partnering with China Grand Automotive Group (CGA), the leading passenger car trader in China, to have Fisker vehicles distributed, marketed and serviced in China. Fisker Automotive’s first car, the Fisker Karma, will make its Chinese debut at the Shanghai Motor Show in April 2011.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The assets of Fisker Automotive are sold to Chinese auto-parts conglomerate Wanxiang, why Apple may have come closer to acquiring Tesla Motors than it appears, and we drive new diesel crossovers from Audi, Jeep, and Mercedes-Benz. The remains of Fisker Automotive were sold for.'

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CN EV Post

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We just saw Rivian, Lucid and Fisker all reporting deliveries and revenues that put them, in all frankness, on death row. Lucid, like NIO has some Middle East oil money keeping it afloat for the moment - but the wealthy Arabic investors are businessmen, not sympathizers to Western or Chinese retail investors.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2013

We haven''t heard much about Fisker Automotive in the last few months. The company still hasn''t declared bankruptcy, it hasn''t yet been bought, and it is still apparently in default on its Department of Energy loans. But now there''s a new suitor who''s at least kicking the tires.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 30, 2024

Nio is what amounts to a tech zombie company and the culling of the Chinese EV herd will commence rapidly in 2024-25. In America Lucid and Fisker will go first with Rivian likely to follow. Meh not sure, but Nio has proven with nearly 3x that many and losing money faster and faster that more isn't the answer.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2016

Danish car designer Henrik Fisker appears to have moved on from his eponymous company and the Karma plug-in luxury sedan. Fisker Automotive is now Karma Automotive, and is working its way back from bankruptcy under the wing of Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2016

After it bought the remains of bankrupt carmaker Fisker Automotive, Chinese auto-parts Wanxiang laid out plans to relaunch Fisker's Karma luxury plug-in hybrid. With namesake Henrik Fisker long gone, those plans included a name change to Karma Automotive. DON'T MISS: Fisker Becomes Karma Automotive, To Relaunch In.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Henrik Fisker hasn't been involved with his namesake company since before it declared bankruptcy in 2013. But Fisker Automotive has continued to bear his name since being purchased by Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2014

After a court hearing on Friday, the fate of Fisker Automotive is even more up in the air, and as uncertain as ever. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross ordered a competitive auction of Fisker''s assets, according to the Associated Press, after a last-minute bid by Chinese auto-parts conglomerate Wanxiang.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2013

While Henrik Fisker's departure from the company he founded has dominated the headlines of late, Fisker Automotive itself still has other problems to deal with. Top of the list is finding a buyer to help fund its future, and up until now, two Chinese companies--Dongfeng Motor Group Co.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2015

Since it bought the remains of Fisker Automotive last year, Chinese parts giant Wanxiang has promised to restart production of the Karma extended-range electric sedan. And while Fisker hasn't quite been brought back to life yet, it is at least beginning to twitch.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 15, 2024

Both see the agreement as a way to remain competitive and manage costs as they work to stave off intense competition from Chinese and South Korean automakers. The automaker is also reportedly considering a significant investment in the struggling Fisker, which could give it access to an electric pickup truck.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

If the proverbial Chinese curse is true, Fisker Automotive has truly been living in interesting times. Now Fisker has named board member and vice chairman Tom LaSorda.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2019

Fisker, the luxury plug-in hybrid car company that went bankrupt in 2013, was founded by a car designer. Henrik Fisker, the brand's namesake was a designer at BMW before forming his own company.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2013

The decision has been hanging in the balance for some time now, but Chinese auto parts maker Wanxiang Group has finally won approval to buy bankrupt battery maker A123 Systems. Wanxiang Group fought off bids from American company Johnson Controls to buy A123, which supplies electric car batteries to companies like Fisker.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Last week, the Chinese company Wanxiang got U.S. With that underway, will China's largest auto-parts company now turn its sights toward one of A123's biggest customers, Fisker Automotive? government approval to buy bankrupt lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems. That seemed to be the implication from a Reuters article last week.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Chinese maker Wanxiang, which bought the defunct Fisker Automotive out of bankruptcy, will rename the carmaker Elux, according to a Reuters report this morning. DON''T MISS: Fisker Karma Will Be.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 4, 2015

The Fisker Karma extended-range electric luxury sedan has been out of production since July 2012, but it''s hardly gone away. Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang, which now owns the car company, hopes to restart sales of the low, sleek, striking four-seat sedan under the Elux name sometime next year.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Earlier this week we told you that the future of Fisker Automotive has finally been determined: and now we can confirm that the sale has been approved in a Delaware bankruptcy court. The sale of the electric vehicle maker to Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group was approved by Judge Kevin[.].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The original production run of the Fisker Karma luxury sedan was contracted to Valmet Automotive in Finland. Karma, which was created when Chinese auto-parts giant Wanxiang purchased the remains of bankrupt Fisker Automotive, plans to handle production itself.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Stalled battery production after A123''s bankruptcy is considered one of the main catalyst''s for Fisker''s litany of struggles, while electric-car enthusiasts wondered what would happen to.'

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Green Cars News

MAY 19, 2014

The Chinese firm bought Fisker Automotive last February and now plans to use the brand to take on the success of rival firm; Tesla. Electric cars Fisker' Battery cars or bust; that is the promise from Wanxiang Qianchao chairman, Lu Guanqui. Speaking to Bloomberg, he said: “I’ll put every cent that Wanxiang earns into[.].

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 3, 2021

Foxconn had tied up with Chinese electric-car maker Byton and automakers Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Italian company Stellantis. Recently, the leading electric vehicles manufacturer Fisker Inc made an announcement that it has collaborated with Apple Inc supplier Foxconn to manufacture more than 250,000 vehicles from late 2023.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Troubled electric carmaker, Fisker has attracted two Chinese suitors; Geely and Dongfeng Motor Group, as the firm looks for a buyer to secure its future. Geely, the firm which bought Volvo from Ford back in 2010, is the favourite to takeover the Californian start-up, best known for its range-extended Karma sports car.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Starting a car company is not only very, very hard—as Tesla, Fisker, and many others testify—but requires breathtaking sums of money. Now struggling Faraday Future, the electric-car startup firm whose entrepreneurial Chinese backer is facing legal action in his home country, appears to have found a well-heeled savior.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2019

You'll recall that the Revero is the continuation of the original Fisker Karma, which went on sale in 2011. The company and its manufacturing facilities for the Karma were bought out by a Chinese company. The Karma Revero is getting a long-needed update later this year, and the company has just revealed a few details.

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China EV

AUGUST 13, 2018

Most — actually all except for me — of the journalists there were Chinese, most flown over from China, it seems. The first press release was in Chinese. He also was an SVP at Chrysler, worked at GM, and after leaving DaimlerChrysler worked for Fisker and Karma in China, among others. He’s been around.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In the beginning was the Fisker Karma. Then came battery cell failures, bankruptcy, a Chinese company, a departing designer, a swaggering auto exec, a big honkin' V-8 engine, and two new companies.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 6, 2023

Most recently, Horbury worked with Geely after the Chinese company bought Volvo from Ford. Though his impact was felt across the automotive ecosystem, some of Horbury’s most impactful work happened at Volvo, where he led the design team in the early 1990s – one of the automaker’s most transformative periods.

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