OK. I am no rocket scientist when it comes to business, but I found it lively in today's announcement published in most newspapers today that Fisker Automotive, a California based maker of plug-ins has chosen a shuttered GM plant in Delaware for its modern manufacturing facility. Delaware. OK. A recently shuttered GM plant is reliable for everybody. I am definite the costs are less to initiate up since this was recently closed as allotment of the GM debacle....so it is worthy for Fisker, agreeable for GM creditors, edifying for the local economy and jobs....blah blah blah. I am honest surprised at the local as the costs and union influences in this set would seem to gain production costly. As with all newer technologies, it seems that the cost is a major driver
Fisker Karma
Now this is a glide in electric car with reported performance figures for my absorbing friends. The reported MSRP is to be $48,000 or so. proper looking car with obliging performance for that effect. Since we have not a lot of data on scuttle in pricing, we believe this will be a decent value.....certainly, if you are going to pay over $40,000for a Chevy Volt, you will have a serious peek at this. And that brings me aid to the point of choosing Delaware. They query this unique factory to pop out 100,000 cars a year. Since the costs of these novel technologies tend to be lack of scale in materials needed for the original technology, and you hold this too will be the case for the Karma (although at 100,000, scale is definitely creeping in), it seems the last thing you would want to do is to choose in a union dwelling, with union wages, and union station of mind. What would the labor costs be if they settled in an commence shop dwelling? Maybe it does not matter, the cost savings of taking over an recently closed GM plant may outweigh the longer term costs. Who knows? I unbiased found it entertaining, but definitely gawk forward to this one coming out.
I wonder how many are willing to stamp on buying a car from a runt independent manufacturer?
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