Fisker is a small electric vehicle manufacturer based in California. The marque was founded in 2016 by Henrik Fisker and has since debuted two electric vehicle platforms, the Fisker Ocean and Pear. An Instagram post from Henrik Fisker’s profile teased the firm’s next nameplate, the Fisker Ronin. According to the post, it will be the firm’s first dip into the electric gt sports car scene, but we’ll only see a prototype in 2023.
In terms of details, Fisker’s post dignity provides much more than what the car would cost, its claimed range, and when we would see the prototype. What we do know at the moment is that it will be a “high-tech electric GT sports car”. It would have a battery pack integrated into the car’s architecture as a means of improving its efficiency and reducing the overall weight of the car. Henrik Fisker has previously worked for Tesla as a design consultant, as well as an auto designer for BMW and Aston Martin.
The car is expected to have a range of roughly 885 km which would trump – in terms of overall range – already established electric vehicles such as BMW’s iX M40, the Tesla Model S, and Mercedes-Benz EQS. These are just claims, so take everything with a pinch of salt. Alongside an ambitious range is the equally ambitious pricing. Fisker stated that the expected pricing for their new EV will start “just under $200k” which would set the estimated price of this car somewhere around R3 million. That’s Porsche Taycan GTS territory and a little bit more than the Audi e-tron GT.
It’s a bit ambitious to announce that one’s company, that has not yet begun deliveries on its first car, is taking up another model in its ranks. Henrik Fisker responded to a comment on the Instagram post that conveyed the same concern about the company’s priorities and whether it was realistic to adopt a new nameplate, to which he responded ”We have development capacity to create 4 vehicles before 2025.” Fisker further elaborated, stating that the Ronin would be developed separately from their other two models, the Ocean and Pear.
Cynically, one may offer the advice “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” however based on the renderings, we could see a two-door sports car EV emerge from the Fisker stables that will directly compete against EV industry titans such as Tesla and Lucid.
