Fisker, the automotive startup-turned publicly traded firm based by famed automotive designer Henrik Fisker, revealed Thursday night time a dizzying array of EV prototypes from a beefy pickup truck with an expandable mattress, and grand tourer sports activities automotive with as much as 600 miles of vary to a souped-up, off-road model of its Ocean SUV and the mysterious PEAR car that it plans to construct with Foxconn.
The showcase, which was a part of an occasion in Huntington Beach, California for traders and media, was the primary time that Fisker has proven off all of its future autos in prototype kind and laid out its expansive and impressive future product plan. And Fisker is taking reservations for all of them.
“I think the traditional car industry really liked this idea about coming up with a new car every year or every second year, but I think we’re in a completely different time right now. You know, coming out of the COVID hangover,” Henrik Fisker advised TechCrunch. “My strategy is, I kind of want to seize the moment. And rather than looking at COVID as something that’s gonna stop us or slow us down. I kind of want to accelerate. And the reason is that I believe that the entire pie of the market is up for grabs, probably in the next three years.”
While the EVs proven Thursday are solely prototypes and the specifics are scarce, the corporate did share some new particulars that present a clearer image of what highway — or roads — Fisker is taking.
Luxury pickup truck: Fisker Alaska
CEO Henrik Fisker has known as the pickup the “Ferrari of pickups,” concentrating on different profitable all-electric luxurious pickups within the area, together with Rivian’s extremely common Rivian R1T, the still-vaporware Tesla Cybertruck and the Ford F-150 Lightning.
The Alaska is constructed on the same platform because the Ocean, but it surely’s been stretched barely. Fisker calls the platform below the Alaska, the FT31. The firm stated the EV pickup can be constructed by automotive contract producer Magna Steyr in Europe on the identical plant because the Ocean.
Fisker stated Thursday that the Alaska will stand up to 340 miles of all-electric vary together with some distinctive options, together with a “big gulp” cupholder and water bottle, an extendable mattress that goes from a 4.5 toes to 7.5 toes with the push of a button, and numerous cubbies and storage bins, together with one for a cowboy hat.
The extendable mattress has an attention-grabbing function that could be enticing to campers. The again window of the cab and rear wall could be dropped, permitting the cabin to divulge heart’s contents to the truck mattress and lengthening your entire space (when the tailgate is down) to 9 toes, 6 inches. This function, which Fisker calls the Houdini Trunk, would provide a kind of sleeping platform for house owners or might be used to hold longer objects.
Henrik Fisker famous in an interview with TechCrunch that the corporate is contemplating including “all kinds of fun stuff” for the Alaska truck to go head-to-head with the Rivian R1T, a pickup recognized for its considerate equipment just like the hidden flashlight, Bluetooth speaker and since discontinued camp kitchen.
Fisker stated that the Alaska will come to market in 2024 and have a beginning value of $45,400 earlier than incentives. With incentives, Fisker says that the Alaska will price $37,900. Reservations for the Fisker Alaska opened this night with deliveries happening someday in 2025, in accordance with the corporate.
The PEAR
Alongside the Alaska, Fisker confirmed off the PEAR for the primary time.
The PEAR, which stands for Personal Electric Automotive Revolution, was going to be in-built conjunction with Foxconn on the Lordstown Motors plant in Ohio. Lordstown Motors has since filed for chapter and sued in opposition to Foxconn. It’s unclear if the PEAR will nonetheless be constructed at that location.
Fisker says that the $29,900 (earlier than incentives) PEAR will get as much as 300 miles of vary in its twin motor, all-wheel drive kind and calls the car a “fully connected mobility device” full with on-board supercomputers that reportedly deal with as a lot as 6.2 teraflops of knowledge. The supercomputers have been constructed in-house by Fisker and are known as Fiskerblades.
The vary for the Pear is roughly 50 miles lower than different high-volume EVs just like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and 6, each of that are priced within the $40,000 vary, however no automaker has but been capable of construct and provide an EV for below $30,000.
To preserve the worth of the PEAR low, Fisker goes for the amount play, noting that when the Lordstown plant ramps up manufacturing, the corporate plans to construct 250,000 PEARs per 12 months at that location. At tonight’s occasion, Henrik Fisker stated that he finally hopes to construct 1 million Pears per 12 months at factories around the globe, together with these within the U.S., China, Europe and India.
The Pear is constructed on what Fisker calls the SLV1, or Simple Light Volume platform, and can have an all-steel physique and body. The firm stated it has used an inside growth course of to make manufacturing extra environment friendly and decrease prices. For occasion, lots of the components contained in the smaller EV crossover are interchangeable and the armrests on the doorways are precisely the identical.
Fisker stated it was capable of take out 35% of the components in an effort to decrease price and make it simpler and sooner to assemble.
Henrik Fisker confirmed that the Pear is completed by way of design and the corporate is presently going out to suppliers to get it constructed. Fisker stated that the Pear can be coming in mid-2025.
One distinctive function of the Pear is the rear tailgate which neither opens up or down like conventional tailgates. Instead, it slides down into the rear bumper and disappears. The firm additionally refers to this because the “Houdini Trunk,” the identical title it makes use of for a considerably comparable disappearing act within the pickup.
The Pear additionally comes with an possibility for a bench seat within the entrance, providing non-obligatory seating for 3 individuals, fairly than two, growing the compact passenger automotive capability to as many as six individuals. The Pear additionally will get a lounge seating possibility, the place the entrance seats can lay again and other people can watch a film on the middle display (the 5-passenger model will get the identical 17-inch display because the Ocean) from the rear when charging.
Reservations for the “urban EV,” which is concerning the measurement of a Subaru Crosstrek, opened in February of final 12 months, The firm says that they’ve greater than 70,000 reservations for the Ocean and the PEAR, mixed.
A sports activities convertible: Fisker Ronin
The all-electric Ronin, which was additionally proven in prototype kind, marks Henrik Fisker’s return to the high-end luxurious sports activities automotive market.
The car — named after the film Ronin that’s well-known for its a number of automotive chase scenes — is supposed to showcase Fisker’s imaginative and prescient of the long run supercar and serves because the know-how “carrier” for all the opposite autos within the lineup.
To the CEO, which means a four-door, grand tourer with butterfly-winged doorways, a coupe-like sloping roofline and tri-motor powertrain that produces greater than 1,000 horsepower and might journey 0 to 60 miles per hour in round two seconds. The car can be outfitted with a retractable carbon fiber roof that may slot in its trunk.
If that’s not wild sufficient, Fisker says it’s going to nonetheless be spacious sufficient to suit as much as 5 individuals and their baggage.
The Ronin can be outfitted with a brand new kind of battery pack built-in into the physique of the grand tourer with a focused 600-mile vary, Fisker stated Thursday. If profitable, that may put the Ronin’s vary far forward of some other EV available on the market.
Production begins within the second half of 2024, in accordance with the corporate.
Luxury off roader: Force E
The huge shock Thursday was the Force E, an off-roader model of the Ocean SUV — its solely EV presently available on the market.
Fisker widened the Ocean SUV with fenders, added a skid plate and attention-grabbing 33-inch wheels. The firm, which known as the Force E a “hardcore off-road package,” can be obtainable within the first quarter of 2024.