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Finnish company Valmet Automotive has signed a letter of intent with an American premium car company Fisker Automotive Inc.
According to the letter of intent Valmet Automotive is to manufacture Fisker Automotive’s first production car, the Fisker Karma, in Finland. The target is to sign the final contract within next months.
Continue to read: Fisker Karma will be manufactured in Finland
Fisker Automotive isn’t wasting any time getting its Karma plug-in hybrid on the road. Five months after pulling the wraps off the car at the Detroit auto show, it’s flogging a test mule in Southern California.
In many cases, the production version of a concept loses the finesse which created the buzz in the first place, but this prototype appears to have kept an almost identical design with the black and white disguising doing little to hide any design elements from public view.
Continue to read: Fisker Karma prototype caught testing
On April 16 Tesla released a statement about the fact that they were readying a lawsuit against Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive and Fisker Coachbuild, for purposefully supplying Tesla with substandard designs for their White Star electric sedan project and using Tesla information for his own Fisker Karma Concept.
Today Fisker Automotive responds with a statement that their Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) 4-door sedan, is on schedule for quarter 4 2009 deliveries.
Continue to read: Fisker Replies to Tesla Allegations
Yesterday Tesla Motors announced limited edition for Europe. Now Fisker has confirmed Karma for Europe.
The Fisker Karma is a four seater plug-in hybrid premium sports sedan and stunned many Americans at the 2008 NAIAS as well as Europeans at Geneva.
There are no official performance specifications green sports sedan available yet, but Fisker Automotive have claimed a sub 6 second 0-100 km/h time, 200 km/h top speed and max torque available from stand still.
Continue to read: Fisker Karma Confirmed for Europe
The problem with all-electric vehicles and hybrids is that they are very quiet. At least it seems to be the problem for Fisker. Driving a sports car without any sound would definetely seem weird.
Imagine taking your 911 GT3 to the track and driving around with no sound. With some cars the sound is part of driving.
Fisker might just have the solution to ease your concerns.
Continue to read: Fisker Karma to produce engine sound via speakers!
