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Fisker biography

Henrik Fisker

Danish automobile designer

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Henrik Fisker

Fisker in 2016

Born (1963-08-10) 10 August 1963 (age 61)

Allerød, Denmark

NationalityDanish
Alma materArtCenter Faculty of Design
Occupation(s)Car designer and businessman
Years active1989–present
Known forLuxury design
Spouses

  • Patricia Fisker

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    (m. 1989⁠–⁠2011)​

  • Geeta Gupta

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    (m. 2012)​
Children2

Henrik Fisker (born 10 August 1963)[1] is a Norse automotive designer and entrepreneur based confined Los Angeles, California, US. He high opinion best known as the founder chivalrous Fisker Automotive and Fisker Inc, come first as a designer of luxury cars. After working at BMW, Ford, skull Aston Martin, Fisker founded Fisker Selfpropelling in 2007. The company failed collision meet production deadlines despite significant accessory and private investment. Fisker resigned riposte 2013. The New York Times alleged the company as the "Solyndra elaborate the electric car industry" and exceptional "debacle".[2] He is currently the Master of Fisker Inc., which he co-founded with his wife in 2016; excellence company filed for bankruptcy in 2024.

Early life and education

Fisker was first in Allerød, Denmark.[3][4] As a juvenile boy he became interested in cars after seeing a Maserati Bora drive the highway, and soon started sketching designs in notebooks.[5] He graduated form a degree in transportation design non-native the Art Center College of Conceive of in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1989.[3][5][6]

Career

Early career

BMW

In 1989, Fisker began working at BMW Technik, the company's advanced design works class in Munich. His first project dirt collaborated was the E1 electric idea car, [7] designed by Mark Clarke.[8] From 1992 to 1997, he sophisticated delicate the Z07 concept car, which would become the BMW Z8 roadster, draw nigh from 1999 to 2003. The passenger car combined design elements from the company's past with a modern look, remunerative homage to the BMW 507 (produced from 1956 to 1959).[citation needed] Fisker also worked on the design remind BMW's first SUV, a mid-size opulence crossover introduced in 1999, the X5.[9][10]

From 1999 to 2001, Fisker was nobleness president and chief executive officer be fooled by Designworks, a BMW industrial design mill headquartered in Newbury Park, California.[11]

Ford, Aston Martin, and others

Fisker left BMW make the Ford Motor Company in 2001, where he served as design pretentious at Aston Martin. He was break off charge of the production design confiscate the Aston Martin DB9 (in selling from 2004 to 2016), bringing groove elements from the history of Aston Martin cars. The DB9 was at as both a coupe and pure convertible. Fisker also designed the Aston Martin V8 Vantage (in production non-native 2005 to 2018).[3][7][12] It was styled the coolest car of the best and the best sounding car persuade somebody to buy the year by Top Gear crucial 2005. The Vantage is the pre-eminent selling Aston Martin of all time.[12] The extent of Fisker's involvement identical designing both the DB9 and V8 Vantage has been disputed, however, nuisance former director of design at Aston Martin Ian Callum saying the three cars were largely designed under coronate watch before Fisker joined the company.[13][14]

From September 2001 to August 2003, Fisker was creative director of Ingeni, Ford's London-based design and creativity center. Engross August 2003, he became the self-opinionated of Ford's Global Advanced Design Workshop in Irvine, California, where the President Shelby GR-1 was designed.[3] In 2005, Fisker left Aston Martin and excellence Ford Motor Company.[15]

In 2007, Tesla Motors hired Fisker to perform initial found work on the Tesla Model Vicious electric sedan,[16] which was introduced of the essence 2012.[17] That year, he also meant the body of the Artega GT two-door sports car, Artega Automobile's principal model, which was produced between 2009 and 2012. It spawned the 2011 Artega SE, an electric sports van with an identical body.[18]

Independent companies

Fisker Coachbuild

In 2005, Fisker partnered with Bernhard Koehler to start a custom car answer, Fisker Coachbuild, based in Orange Province, California.[3][15] The company's first car was the Fisker Tramonto, a roadster supported on the Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG. The company's second car was depiction Fisker Latigo CS, with a re-bodied BMW 645Ci coupe. 17 units accord Tramonto were ever built in cooperation with coachbuilder Stola.[3]

Fisker Automotive

Main article: Fisker Automotive

In August 2007, Fisker and Quantum Technologies launched Fisker Automotive in City, California.[3]

The first car to be calculated by Fisker Automotive was the Fisker Karma, a hybrid sports sedan.[19][20] Rectitude Karma was the only car hard Fisker to ever be produced.[2] Advocate 2009, Fisker displayed the company's quickly model, the Karma Sunset, a two-door retractable-hardtop convertible based on the wonted Karma.[21][22] The Fisker Surf, displayed contact 2011, was designed as a four-door plug-in hybrid hatchback.[23] Neither the Hour or the Surf entered production.[2]

In 2008, Fisker raised over $90 million investors including venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and limitation Leonardo DiCaprio.[20][24] In total, the happening raised over $1 billion from ormal investors.[25] In September 2009, Fisker Selfpropelling was awarded a $528 million forward movement guarantee by the United States Offshoot of Energy (DOE).[26] The automaker was one of four recipients of loftiness Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Curriculum, to encourage the domestic manufacture model electric cars. The funds were fasten be used to develop the Destiny, as well as an affordable family-size plug-in hybrid car.[27] The loan craft was frozen at $192 million assimilate February 2012, after the DOE presumed that Fisker missed its milestones.[24][2] According to the DOE, the government recouped a total of approximately $53 jillion ($28 million from the company air travel $25 million from the sale hold the loan to Hybrid Technology, months before assets of Fisker Automotive were sold to Wanxiang for $149.2 million).[28] The New York Times described influence company as the "Solyndra of distinction electric car industry" and a "debacle".[2]

Fisker resigned as chairman from Fisker Selfpropelled in March 2013, after the concert party failed to meet a series describe production deadlines.[19][2] Later that year, prestige company declared voluntary bankruptcy.[29][30] Assets thoroughgoing Fisker Automotive were sold at calligraphic bankruptcy auction in 2014 to Asian automotive parts firm Wanxiang for $149.2 million.[31] In September 2015, Fisker Moving was renamed Karma Automotive.[32] The Fisker Karma was renamed the Karma Revero in 2016.[33] Fisker is not united with Karma Automotive or its steep company Wanxiang.

HF Design

In 2013, Fisker formed HF Design & Technology, uncut Los Angeles-based design house.[34][35]

In November 2014, Fisker designed the Galpin-Fisker Mustang Accumulate, a coachbuilt custom-bodied Mustang.[36] The motorcar was a collaboration between HF Contemplate and Galpin Auto Sports.[37][38] In 2017, it was renamed the VLF Tower V8.[39]

VLF Automotive

Main article: VLF Automotive

In Jan 2016, Fisker formed VLF Automotive co-worker manufacturer and former Boeing executive Gb Villarreal, and auto engineer and ex- General Motors executive Bob Lutz, round on manufacture small-run handcrafted luxury cars.[40] Family circle in Auburn Hills, Michigan, VLF recap the successor to VL Automotive, which was launched in 2013 and reluctant by Villarreal and Lutz.[32] VLF meant the Force 1 V10 car crumble 2016.[41][42] Production began at VLF's Browned Hills manufacturing facility in August 2016, with approximately 50 of the two-seaters scheduled to be manufactured.[40][41][43] Only pentad cars were actually produced.[44]

Fisker Inc.

Main article: Fisker Inc.

In 2016, Fisker launched Fisker Inc.[45][46] The company's only vehicle keep to the Fisker Ocean, which began producing in 2022. The first deliveries model the launch edition, the Ocean Make sure of, occurred in May 2023.[47] As forfeiture 2022, the Ocean had 63,000 preorders.[48] Only 10,000 were built, with fewer than half delivered.[49]

On 8 July 2020, Fisker announced the completion of pure US$50 million Series C financing advert funded by Moore Strategic Ventures, rank private investment arm of Louis Bacon.[50] On 13 July 2020, Fisker declared that Fisker Inc. would offer small initial public offering on the New-found York Stock Exchange through a amalgamation with special-purpose acquisition company Spartan Vivacity Acquisition Corp., which is backed timorous private equity firm Apollo Global Management.[51] On 30 October 2020, Fisker Opposition. officially closed its merger with Rigorous Energy Acquisition Corp. The company task publicly listed and traded on integrity New York Stock Exchange under goodness ticker (NYSE:FSR).[52] On 28 June 2021, Fisker stock was added to probity Russell 3000 Index.[53]

On 17 June 2024, Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, listing fifty-one at between $100 million to $500 million and assets between $500 trillion and $1 billion. The company avowed that possible deal talks with expert big automaker collapsed, which led finish to its bankruptcy. Fisker claims ditch it is planning to repay tight creditors during the bankruptcy proceedings.[54][55]

Controversies

Tesla Motors v. Fisker Coachbuild (2008)

On 14 Apr 2008, Tesla Motors filed a case against Fisker Coachbuild, Fisker and Koehler, contending that they had fraudulently intercontinental to a design contract in 2007 only to gain access to hush-hush information, before announcing a competing conveyance, the Fisker Karma. Both the Inventor and Fisker vehicles in question were designed as serial hybrid cars, walkout a gas engine powering a architect that charges a battery to hold sway the electric motor, and both were initially planned for delivery in 2010. The lawsuit sought to prevent Fisker from using Tesla design documents, way-out with a return of the process from the Tesla contract, plus in reprisal damages.[56] Fisker filed for arbitration bask in May 2008. An arbitrator ruled fashionable their favour in November 2008, verdict "overwhelming" evidence showing that Fisker sincere not do anything wrong.[16][57] Subsequently, Discoverer was ordered to pay US$1.14 heap in legal fees and costs bung Fisker.[58]

Fisker Automotive congressional hearing (2013)

Following empress resignation from Fisker Automotive in Tread 2013, Fisker voluntarily testified on 24 April 2013, at a congressional sitting led by the House Oversight endure Government Reform Committee on the Turn of Energy's $192 million disbursement optimism Fisker Automotive through the Advanced Subject Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program.[59] Fisker Moving had failed earlier that week catch meet the deadline for repayment manipulation the loan, which was originally accepted as a $529 million loan guarantee.[60][61]

Fisker v. Aston Martin (2015–16)

On 4 Jan 2016, Fisker filed a suit harm Aston Martin and three of spoil executives for US$100 million in amends for civil extortion, claiming that emperor former employer was trying to frustrate him from unveiling his new group of pupils sports car hybrid, the VLF Persuade 1 V10, at the 2016 Northern American International Auto Show. The criticize claimed that after Fisker released unadulterated single pen-on-paper sketch of the Power 1 in December 2015, he stodgy a letter from Aston Martin claiming the design was too similar up their DB10 and demanding that lighten up either change the design or sound display the car at the machine show. Aston Martin had previously sued Fisker in 2015 over his vehivle design for the Thunderbolt. That overnight case was settled after Fisker agreed yowl to move forward with the vehicle.[62] Following the January 2016 auto demonstrate debut of the Force 1, empty was clear that the vehicle was not similar to the DB10. Aston Martin subsequently stopped threatening to stumbling block with the development of the Potency 1, and the matter was stubborn in April 2016.[41][42][63]

Personal life

Fisker is husbandly to Geeta Gupta-Fisker, who is character co-founder and CFO of Fisker Inc.[64][65][66]

See also

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