Will green car start-up Fisker select another GM factory over Fremont's NUMMI for its US car plant?

October 21, 7:07 AMSan Jose Auto Industry ExaminerArt Michalik

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Will the Fisker Karma's little sister Nina PHEV be built at NUMMI or another closed GM factory?
Fisker Automotive

Southern California-based Fisker Automotive plans to announce shortly the location of a domestic assembly plant , its CEO told an entenpenuers conference on Tuesday.

Fisker is developing a Plug-in Electric Hybrid (PHEV)  under a program called Project Nina,  financed by a $359 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, and is seeking an existing automobile in the US to build up to 100,000 of the PHEVs per year.

Henrik Fisker, the company's co-founder and chief executive told the Associated Press that Fremont's NUMMI "is obviously way too big for us when you're talking about 100,000 to 150,000 cars. So there are some plants out there that are simply too big,"

"We found one that was very modern and has produced cars until recently and all that, so there is definitely a good choice of factories and all the Big Three are selling factories at this point in time," Fisker said in the AP interview. "We're probably somewhat lucky ... that there are so many empty factories available."

Fisker Automotive confirmed Tuesday that it has talked with Delaware officials and toured the Boxwood Road assembly plant, idle since late July when General Motors closed the factory, according to a published report in the Wilmington (DE) News Journal.

"We have looked at Wilmington," said Russell Datz, a spokesman for Irvine, Calif.-based Fisker to the Wilmington (DE) News Journal. "There's several plants that are available, and we've considered them all."