The eco-friendly Karma has lined up 45 US dealers for 2010.
Henrik Fisker’s firm starts selling innovative cars in late 2010, but he says “we didn’t want to reinvent the wheel” in setting up a retail network for his fledgling enterprise. So Fisker Automotive Inc. is dueling with existing luxury-brand dealerships across the country. “We have 45 U.S. dealers who will be up and ready by the end of this year,” says Fisker, CEO of the namesake company, maker of the upcoming Karma plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle. By 2011, the firm plans to sell 15,000 PHEVs a year. First to market will be a Karma sedan with a base price of $87,900. A convertible comes next, then a third variant. – From autospies