Electric car manufacturer Fisker will unveil a $39,000 plug-in hybrid within the next couple weeks.
The Fisker Karma will have a sibling - with a production run of 100,000 or so units
The follow on to the $87,900 Fisker Karma is expected to be built in larger volumes – at a production run of 100,000 or so vehicles, said Ray Lane, a managing partner at the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Lane let the news slip at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito. He said the announcement is expected this week or next.
Kleiner Perkins is an investor in Fisker, which has raised about $100 million since its founding in 2007. The Irvine company competes with high-end electric car makers, such as Tesla.
The new car will be designed to be more accessible than the Karma, but, says Lane, “who would not want to buy a Fisker Karma, if you could afford it.”
