The new owners of the brand Fisker Karma preparing a prelaunch model!
by AllAutoExperts | 25 April, 2014
The company formerly built by Henrik Fisker could return to the market in 2015. According to Autocar, the Chinese from Wanxiang, the new owners of the brand are preparing to produce Karma pattern again, and they will offer a wagon electric version car with extended range.
It announced an entry-level version, which will be called the Atlantic, designed to provide to the customers the opportunity to purchase and less affluent, but keen to experience life driving a Fisker. This version will reach the market only in 2017, while the break is expected to debut in 2016. The Chinese company could sell the model under another name Karma is not clear if they hold the rights to the Fisker Karma name after the Company acquisition.
Currently, Fisker Automotive is looking for a new CEO with whom to start a recruitment campaign. Following insolvency, the American company had to give up all its employees. The good news is that many of them will return to Fisker says the current leadership of the brand, and employees who have expressed their wish to return the company to be contacted in order to continue working. The first Fisker Karma is an extended range electric model, called serial hybrid.
It is equipped with two electric motors that develop a total of 408 hp and 1,300 Nm, and has a 2.0 turbo engine fueled by gasoline, which charges the batteries after the model runs the battery power and increases the autonomy of 80 to 483 kilometers.