Nissan is in advanced-stage talks with Fisker for a deal that would offer the Japanese producer entry to the American EV maker’s pick-up truck, whereas providing the latter monetary help, and the deal could possibly be closed this month, Reuters has reported.

Among the many phrases mentioned have been for Nissan to take a position over US$400 million (RM1.89 billion) in Fisker’s EV truck platform, and to assemble the Fisker Alaska EV truck at one among Nissan’s meeting crops in the US from 2026, whereas Nissan would then construct its personal EV truck on the identical platform, in response to the information outlet’s supply; Nissan has meeting crops within the US positioned in Mississippi and Tennessee.

In the meantime, Fisker introduced final week that it might not have the ability to maintain itself and would minimize its workforce by 15%, and that it’s in talks with with a bigger automaker for potential funding and joint improvement partnership, with out naming the automaker on the time.

The Alaska electrical pick-up truck was one among a number of fashions revealed by Fisker at its Product Imaginative and prescient Day presentation final August, alongside different fashions together with the Pear six-seater MPV and the Ronin five-seater GT.

Constructed on a by-product of the Fisker Ocean platform, dubbed FT31, the Alaska is touted as an EV pick-up truck that gives a number of cargo-carrying configurations, because of its cargo mattress that may prolong from 4.5 toes (1,371 mm) to 9.2 toes (2,804 mm) lengthy. A retractable partition permits payloads to go by from the cargo mattress to the cabin, accessed by an electrically opening tailgate.

Fisker touts the Alaska because the world’s most sustainable pick-up truck, claiming battery vary of between 368 km to 544 km for the mannequin. Considered one of its claims to sustainability is in using reclaimed wooden for its dashboard fascia, the place what seems to be a horizontal digital instrument panel and a portrait-oriented infotainment display characteristic, in addition to a second portrait-oriented display for the entrance passenger.

At its announcement final August, pricing for the Fisker Alaska in the US was stated to start out from US$45,400 (RM206,683), with buyer deliveries on the time scheduled to start out in 2025.

GALLERY: Fisker Alaska pick-up truck

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