Interested people should at least quickly scan wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Fisker
He is a great designer. Any way, check out above for an introduction.
Doesn't seem any of his startups have survived. Latest is Fisker, Inc. started in 2016 - present.
This time round, his latest twist, in my opinion, is his
business model: Don't sell, just lease.
IBM built their empire leasing only. You didn't buy IBM software as it only worked on IBM hardware and you couldn't buy IBM hardware you could only lease it. Don't pay your monthly fee and it all went away. Interesting history. Anti-Monopoly laws & lawsuits finally changed that model and IBM had to adapt. Not to worry, they still make a ton of money. Can't imagine any government agency existing without IBM.
Electric cars lasting for a million miles one can see the idea of lease only. Even Musk considers this once he has solved the autonomous driving problem. Well, most of you know/read about the transport as service vs ownership models. 2 ton metal containers to move 200 lbs people for 4-6 times a day is obviously very very wasteful. But we have built a world wide auto industry making 80 million or more vehicles a year. (public transport is particularly poor in the US, right?)
Fisker has never built/created a viable company. Has he failed and learned enough to change this historical pattern? I don't know. I personally would not give him good odds. As you saw from Wikipedia he has won many, many awards. Does Wall St. love him?
Can he manage outsourcing to build his product from supply chain?
(Musk thinks catalog engineering a poor replacement for actual engineering. I agree.)
interesting times
side note:
What makes Tesla the best? - simple overview
Fisker vs Tesla - White Star
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