Fisker PEAR to be Built in Ohio by Foxconn

The Fisker PEAR will be built in Ohio by……Foxconn. Today, Fisker announced its partnership with the tech company who will build the Fisker PEAR (“Personal Electric Automotive Revolution”) in Ohio at the old GM Assembly Plant. The PEAR will be the brand’s first model to follow the upcoming Ocean crossover. That car goes into production later this year at the Magna Steyr plant in Austria. Foxconn just purchased the former GM Assembly Plant from Lordstown Motors and will begin building the PEAR there in 2024. This deal will also enable Lordstown to produce its first mass-market vehicle there, the Endurance pickup. Henrik Fisker took to social media today to claim that the PEAR “won’t fit into any existing segment”. He also shared the most revealing sketch of the car provided so far. It will have an extremely unique design with futuristic lighting elements and a peculiar greenhouse shape. Fisker says a glider plane’s glass canopy is what inspired the design.

Foxconn is the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer known for things like smartphone processors and internals. The deal to make this all possible reportedly took $230 million. The goal is to produce at least 250,000 PEARs a year at the plant once production ramps up fully. Whether or not supply chain woes and chip shortages will still have a stronghold over the industry by then remains to be seen. Fisker has set a $29,900 starting price goal for the car.

Read more about how the Fisker PEAR will be built in Ohio by Foxconn here.