Fisker Aims for Charging Innovation and Solid-State Batteries?Not Dealerships or Assembly Plants
Ten years after launching Fisker Automotive, a company that once sparred with Tesla for California electric-vehicle supremacy, its founder is back with a new company as well as a new electric car, the all-wheel-drive EMotion. It won’t be officially introduced until next month at CES in Las Vegas, but it’s already priced for pre-orders at $129,900. In anticipation, we caught up with Henrik Fisker, designer and visionary, for a wide-ranging interview at the recent Los Angeles auto show and found that under Fisker 2.0?his new company’s official name is Fisker Inc.?the CEO is a bit apprehensive about big spending on traditional retail and manufacturing channels but all abustle with ideas of how he can innovate within the EV sector. One of those innovations?to be featured in the EMotion, although perhaps not from its production start?is a way to charge the battery quickly without getting out of the car. As part of a future standard (and with hopes that other companies will get on board), the EMotion will be compatible with an in-ground coupler system that, after the car lines up to it, will come up from the ground and connect to the vehicle. An automatic-parking aid will help line up to it, according to Fisker, and the design of the coupler allows some position flexibility. ?It also means you don?t have any interaction with the high voltage,? said Fisker, who added that his company will show a functional coupler at CES. ?It?s very safe because it?s under t...
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