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Fisker teams up with Foxconn to assemble EVs
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Electric-car maker Fisker Inc said it will work with Apple Inc supplier Foxconn to produce more than 250,000 vehicles a year beginning in late 2023, sending its shares up 18 percent.
The deal, codenamed 鈥淧roject PEAR鈥 (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution), is looking at markets globally, including North America, Europe, China and India, Fisker said.
Foxconn, Apple鈥檚 main iPhone maker, has ramped up its interest in electric vehicles over the past year or so, announcing deals with Chinese electric-car maker Byton and automakers Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Stellantis NV鈥檚 Fiat Chrysler unit.
Sources have said Apple is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle.
Foxconn aims to provide components or services to 10 percent of the world鈥檚 EVs by 2025 to 2027, Chairman Liu Young-way said in October.
The Taiwan-based company鈥檚 approach poses a major threat to established automakers that technology companies such as Apple and other non-traditional players could use contract assemblers as a shortcut to competing in the vehicle market.
鈥淎 lot of auto suppliers and manufacturers are looking to get a piece of this explosive growth that鈥檚 ahead for the global electric vehicle market,鈥 said CFRA Research analyst Garrett Nelson, who has a 鈥渂uy鈥 rating on Fisker.
Fisker Chief Executive Henrik Fisker said that Foxconn is more than just a contract manufacturer under this deal and is developing the vehicle with the startup. He expects the deal to be finalized in the second quarter and to last about seven years. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Fisker said the new vehicle would be 鈥渇uturistic鈥 and 鈥渟omething completely different,鈥 as well as 鈥渁ffordable.鈥 It will launch in the fourth quarter of 2023, and is one of the four vehicles Fisker previously said it would introduce by 2025, he said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e not just going to make another electric car,鈥 Henrik Fisker said in an interview. 鈥淲e want to introduce things that probably will almost feel a little scary to some people.鈥
Where the vehicle will be built by Foxconn has not been set, he said.
The EV sector has been booming, with Tesla Inc still the market leader. On Tuesday, luxury electric-car maker Lucid Motors announced plans to go public by merging with a blank-check company.
The recent runup in valuations of several EV startups, including Nikola Corp and Lordstown Motors Corp, which have yet to produce saleable vehicles or meaningful revenue, has drawn comparisons to the dotcom bubble of 1999 to 2000, with analysts and investors expecting a near-term correction.
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