initial orders expected to deliver by the end of 2009

The two leaders in high-end electric sports car technology are now going head to head in the courtroom.
Tesla says Fisker heads, Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler, not only stole their hybrid design ideas while working for the company, but allege that Henrik – hired to style their new sedan, the Tesla White Star – turned over a purposefully substandard design in order to get a leg up once the companies were in competition.
Paid almost $1,000,000 for the bunk job, Fisker used that money to help start Fisker Coachbuild.
Tesla’s claims:

* The bad design set back their production schedule for the company’s …read more

Fisker’s $80,000 luxury plug-in hybrid, the Karma, will be built in Motor City