Comments on: Fisker Tries To Create Distance from Tesla

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:59:03 +0000

I have to take issue with the author's mis-statement that:
"Fisker makes an $87,000 plug-in hybrid and Tesla produces a $109,000 all-electric roadster."

Lets get the imporant facts straight in the whole article. The biggest difference is that Fisker talks about making a car while Tesla actually is delivering their 2nd and 3rd generation models NOW.
Tesla Roadsters are in active use by ecstatic customers today. Fisker is just talk.

By: RKRB

RKRB — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:54:14 +0000

Let’s hope Fisker or Toyota can bring an interesting, reliable plug-in hybrid that will establish a good image for the concept (much like the Prius and the original Insight did for the hybrid concept). The General Motors Volt would seem a poor bet to do this — GM has a disappointingly poor track record of manufacturing reliable newly introduced models, of engineering successful new designs, of building any good economical car, or of following through on their successful innovations. GM would likely botch the concept badly enough to scare people away from plug-ins for many years (just as GM diesel cars helped scare people away from diesels for so many years). GM may well change things with the Volt, but this is an even more chancy bet now that they have Congress within their management layer. It’s indeed ironic that Fisker is using a GM engine, which seems an exception to the general rule, but perhaps this engine will have better results with the Karma than with its intended vehicles, the GM sports cars (which will probably be canceled by GM’s new managers — an example of an expensive, carefully designed, eagerly anticipated, fairly decent bit of engineering that GM somehow managed to lose money on). Well, it’s disappointing.
Hope Fisker does well (and Tesla and GM too).

By: mal

mal — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:49:55 +0000

As long as gas remains dirt cheap, he’s right.

By: tom gray

tom gray — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:42:37 +0000

It’s ironic that the least technically sophisticated car on the planet (the Tesla roadster with its 8000 flashlight batteries) is considered the opposite by the brainless media, mostly, is seems, because a bunch of dimwitted entertainment folks, (starting with Letterman), have attempted to greenwash their image while
simultaneously looking cool in their Lotus designed Tesla. Musk’s claim the be profitable after 500 cars means they are charging way too much, or , as usual, aren’t telling the truth.

By: ACAGal

ACAGal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:47:34 +0000

GM actually was using Quantum to supply parts, modify and test the Hydrogen SUVs that GM used to test Hydrogen (Equinox, Sequel). Somehow the VP who was supposed to be designing the Volt, ignored the advancement Quantum had made, in the drive(Q-drive). Fisker saw the speed and strength of the engineering, signing up QTWW long before GM saw what might have been. I think it is not a comment about the Volt, it is more specific……