Fisker moves in
Plant that formerly built sports cars is set to commence hybrid passenger car productionSpecialist manufacturer Fisker Automotive has finalised the acquisition of GM's Wilmington assembly plant for an all-up price of US $20 million.
The plant, which is located in the US state of Delaware, previously produced two of GM's rear-drive sports cars, the Pontiac Solstice and the Saturn Sky. Fisker plans to build a new plug-in hybrid passenger car at the plant and claims that the revival of the plant will ultimately lead to 2000 new blue-collar jobs.
The new car, currently known internally as Project NINA, is part-funded by a loan of US $528.7 million from the American Department of Energy. According to Fisker, Project NINA will be smaller than its Karma hybrids (pictured).
"This is a major step toward creating thousands of manufacturing jobs and restoring America as a leader in the global auto industry," said Bernhard Koehler, COO, Fisker Automotive.
"Wilmington will be instrumental in fulfilling our plans to export more than half of Fisker premium plug-in hybrid production to global markets."
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