Fisker Automotive was an American company known for producing the Fisker Karma, which was one of the world's first production luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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12 Facts About Fisker Automotive
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Fisker Automotive is responsible for designing many premium cars such as the Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage, Artega GT, and BMW Z8.
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Fisker Automotive served as design director and sat on the board at Aston Martin.
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Tesla's suit claimed that the design work done for the Model S by Fisker Automotive Coachbuild was substandard, and that Fisker Automotive diverted its best ideas to the Karma.
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Fisker Automotive's problems started with recall of its battery by A123 in December 2011, followed by a second recall by A123 Systems in March 2012 and eventually a bankruptcy of its battery supplier A123 Systems in August 2012, the costs involved regarding a recall and repairs to customer cars.
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In February 2012, Tom LaSorda was named the new CEO, and Henrik Fisker Automotive became executive chairman, but six months later on August 14, La Sorda was replaced by Tony Posawatz, previously General Motors Vehicle Line Director for the Chevrolet Volt.
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The cabin interior was designed by Fisker Automotive, but was made in the United States by Magna International of Canada.
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Fisker Automotive unveiled the Karma S hardtop convertible concept car in 2009.
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The Fisker Automotive Surf was intended to be a station wagon or a shooting brake variant of the Fisker Automotive Karma.
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Fisker Automotive distributed vehicles through a traditional dealer network and partnered with five importers: GP Supercars, Nellemann ; the Emil Frey Group ; BD Otomotive and Al-Futtaim Group .
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Fisker Automotive used to retain core competencies, such as design, engineering and marketing, in house, but outsourced manufacturing of its first vehicle Fisker Karma.
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Fisker used to save significant development costs by using pre-engineered components developed by other car companies whenever possible, such as the door handle mechanism which was a General Motors part; Fisker Automotive just paid a royalty to GM for each door handle in the Karma, which was much cheaper than designing its own door handles.
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