Fisker Files for Bankruptcy as E.V. Maker’s Cash Runs Short
The company became the latest electric vehicle start-up to fail to meet investors’ expectations after a high-profile public debut.
E.V. Start-up Founder Could Get Prison Term in Fraud Case
Trevor Milton, who founded the truck company Nikola, will be sentenced on Monday in a fraud case that exposed the excesses in the electric vehicle business.
El diseño de los coches me está aburriendo
Los nuevos automóviles están equipados con alta tecnología, pero no tienen estilo ni personalidad. ¿Qué pasó con la innovación?
Cars Keep Getting Smarter. Do They Have to Look So Boring?
New cars are packed with technology, but they lack style and personality.
Despite Problems In the Past, Biden to Try Again with ‘Green’ Stimulus
As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw a “green jobs” stimulus package that produced notable failures. This time, with more money and more demand for clean technology, will be different, Democrats say.
Battery maker A123 quietly became a half-billion-dollar company
Ten years ago, lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems was a hot startup and a much-publicized company. This author, in fact, profiled the company for IEEE Spectrum in the technology magazine's September 2007 issue. The six years that followed proved enormously painful for the Massachusetts company, however. DON'T MISS: A123 Systems To Recall... All-electric Fisker EMotion luxury sedan to debut in August
The low, sleek Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan had a stunning design but numerous problems, and Tesla mopped the floor with it. Now designer Henrik Fisker is reading for a rematch, this time with an all-electric sedan promising 400 miles of range (and unusual doors). The Fisker EMotion is slated for an August 17 debut, when its curvaceous... Fisker is coming back, he says, with 400-mile electric car
Henrik Fisker has designed some remarkable cars, among them Aston Martins, the BMW Z8, and of course the striking Fisker Karma range-extended electric luxury sedan. That vehicle, launched in 2012 by his namesake company, saw production of less than 3,000 units before the company collapsed in bankruptcy. The same vehicle will relaunch next year as...