Fisker and Foxconn team on new EV with outsized ambitions
Chris Davies - Feb 24, 2021, 8:47am CST
Fisker and Foxconn are teaming up on an an electric vehicle, with the EV-company and the manufacturing heavyweight aiming for go far beyond the niche production in the automaker’s past. Codenamed Project PEAR – or “Personal Electric Automotive Revolution” – the goal is to make a more affordable EV that can hit the sort of sales numbers more commonplace among mainstream gas models.
Fisker is probably best known for its role in the style-forward Karma hybrid sedan, a project now being run independently by Karma Automotive. Plans rebooted, Fisker first unveiled the EMotion EV back in 2018, a striking luxury electric sedan with double-gullwing doors.
Electric-car maker Fisker entered into a memorandum of understanding with Foxconn Technology Group, the world s biggest electronics manufacturer, to build electric vehicles as soon as the fourth quarter of 2023