2024 Fisker Ronin electric GT to be a range hero
American EV maker Fisker has teased its Project Ronin, the brand’s third all-electric offering after the Ocean SUV and diminutive PEAR urban EV.
Shown in a single, dramatic image, Project Ronin is an all-electric sport Grand Tourer which Fisker says is being designed to deliver “the longest range of a production EV with the ultimate in high performance.”
Lofty claims indeed.
1000km+ EV range?
That would indicate the low-slung sports car has a planned range of over 1000km. While the Lucid Air Dream (in production and on sale) boasts a range up to 837 kilometres, Chinese brand GAC has recently started selling its LX Plus electric SUV with a promised range of 1000 kilometres from its stonking 144.4kWh battery pack.
The plan is to fully reveal Project Ronin in August 2023 with production to start in the second half of 2024. No word on its hardware, but CEO Henrik Fisker said the GT would bring “extremely high levels of performance.”
Project Ronin gained its name from the 1998 Robert De Niro film Ronin, famed for its sideways car chase action.
In proper grand tourer style we’re promised space for four adults and their luggage, plus “unique doors for better ingress and egress.” An older Fisker range picture shows these should rival scissor or gull wing doors on the theatrical front (see red GT in below picture).
Of the little revealed, Fisker said the battery pack would be integrated into the vehicle’s structure, the interior will be sustainable vegan and the brief to the engineering team was to use the most advanced lightweight materials to focus on range and performance.
Clearly, it isn’t going to be cheap. While the Ocean and PEAR are correctly described as ‘affordable’ by the brand, Project Ronin is “signalling the Fisker brand’s return to its luxury design roots.” Ergo, it’ll be bloody expensive.
Fisker Ocean for November
The Austrian-built Ocean all-electric SUV will be the first Fisker to come to market. We’re promised it’s still on track for start of production (in November 2022) and it has “more than 40,000 official reservations worldwide and growing rapidly every day.”
It’s priced from US$37,499 ($52,000), but there’s no word on if it will make Australia. Giving hope, you can order one in right-hand-drive market UK, with its release there likely in 2023.
The 4500mm five-seat PEAR ‘urban lifestyle vehicle’ EV is yet to be properly shown, but can be reserved on the Fisker Inc website. It is priced from US$29,900 ($41,300) with first deliveries expected in 2024.
The brand has previously signalled its intention to bring another EV to the line-up by 2025, likely a Tesla Cybertruck-rivalling pick-up called Alaska.
