Henrik Fisker

The electric-vehicle startup Fisker is abandoning a direct-to-consumer sales model in the U.S. in favor of using traditional dealerships, after it found the approach too expensive and struggled in 2023 to get its cars to buyers quickly.The company is in talks with U.S. dealers and hopes to sign up at least 50 this year, said Chief Executive Officer Henrik Fisker. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 The electric-vehicle startup Fiskeris abandoning a…

Updated Nov. 20, 2023 4:48 pm ETElectric-vehicle startup Fisker has lost its second chief accounting officer in less than a month, the latest setback for a company that only recently started selling its first model. Florus Beuting, who was named chief accounting officer in early November, has left the automaker, according to people familiar with the situation. His exit follows the departure of his predecessor, who left in late October after roughly three years at the startup to take a job with another company, leading…

California-based Fisker is finally putting its first cars into the hands of U.S. customers, 2½ years after going public amid a frenzy on Wall Street for electric-vehicle makers. California-based Fisker is finally putting its first cars into the hands of U.S. customers, 2½ years after going public amid a frenzy on Wall Street for electric-vehicle makers. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

Fisker’s Ocean SUV on display at the Paris Car Show last year. Photo: Michel Euler/Associated Press…

His first venture failed, and his latest one almost ran out of money. Then came the blank-check boom. Henrik Fisker rose around 5 a.m. Thursday to squeeze in a quick workout before making his way to a factory spanning the equivalent of more than 150 football fields. Hours later, camera crews captured an unlikely milestone made possible by the blank-check boom: The first Ocean, Fisker Inc.'s debut electric vehicle, rolled off the assembly line. The SUV zips from zero to 60 miles per hour in as little as 3.6 seconds and…