A prototype of the Fisker Atlantic. Its production date likely will depend upon current negotiations with potential partners.
Battery-car start-up Fisker Automotive has entered a critical stage in its short life, the plug-in hybrid maker working feverishly to firm up an alliance strategy that could team it up with one or more well-funded partners – and, in the process, allow it to move ahead with the launch of its second product line.
In the meantime, Fisker also is working to restart production of its original model, the Karma, something that is dependent upon negotiations with battery supplier A123 which recently emerged from bankruptcy under new ownership.
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“We have multiple interested partners” that the company is talking to, said Fisker Automotive’s eponymous founder and Chairman Henrik Fisker, following a speech at the Chicago Auto Show.
Company spokesman Roger Ormisher subsequently told TheDetroitBureau.com that the “multiple partners” talking to Fisker are located “across three Continents,” though the maker is declining to reveal specific names.
