Henrik Fisker Wants You To Know About His Doors

Henrik Fisker, chairman and CEO Fisker, Inc., surprised many earlier this month when he revealed his fledgling company plans to produce a new car bearing his name. Some critics who remembered the ill-fated Fisker Karma scoffed.

Well, the Danish businessman is attempting to close the doors on murmurings of overblown hype by showing off a different set of doors. Naturally, he did so in a befitting venue for shadowy electric car executives — Twitter.

Fisker posted the image above with the message, “A Breakthrough: Innovative new butterfly doors in our new Fisker model, for easier ingress/egress. More next week…”

The company claims it will unveil an electric vehicle in the second half of 2017 that uses cutting-edge battery technology to achieve impressive range. According to Fisker, the technology came from the fertile minds of UCLA professors and differs from the conventional lithium-ion battery packs seen in regular EVs. Fisker Nanotek, a private corporation based in northern California, will build them.

If the tweeted photo is indeed the 400-mile EV Fisker claims to be building, he clearly took some notes from Tesla. Sure, they’re not the “falcon wing” doors of the Model X, but they’re certainly distinctive. Fancy doors generate hype, you know. (And in Tesla’s case, headaches.)

As for the car itself, the vehicle’s styling borrows cues from the departed Fisker Karma and resurrected Karma Revero, which rose from the ashes of its former owner. It looks shorter than the Karma, and has a profile not unlike the Tesla Model 3.

The nature of Fisker’s looming announcement is anyone’s guess. As we’ve seen with another company, the announcement rarely matches the magnitude of the tweet.

[Image: Twitter]