New isn't easy: Henrik Fisker at TEDxChapmanU

In his TEDxChapmanU talk, Henrik asks "What if?" and challenges the audience to take risks to keep their passions alive. He encourages everyone to work toward proving the "doubters" wrong and to believe in extraordinary ideas. He describes the setbacks he faced in designing a vehicle that was different than the rest, and walks us through his thought process and vision along the way.

Henrik Fisker, a world-renowned designer in the field of luxury cars, is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Fisker Automotive. After a fulfilling career, which included both design and executive positions at BMW, Ford, and Aston Martin, Henrik decided to partner with Bernhard Koehler and forge a new and radical perspective on what is possible in the automotive world. In 2007, they founded Fisker Automotive, a pure automobile manufacturer which introduced the world's first ever premium hybrid electric vehicle, the Fisker Karma. Henrik began his career in Germany at BMW's advanced design studio, BMW Technik GmbH, upon graduating from The Art Center College of Design in Switzerland. A few of his automotive design legacies include the Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Shelby GR1, BMW Z07 and Z8 roadster.


About TEDx:

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[Dan Frederiksen]

Wow. That is a ton of gross mistakes you just made.

The GM Ultralite weighed 635kg, I never said it weighed 0.4ton!

And you confused 1400 pounds with 1.4 ton..

You want to try that again? Maybe some apologies..

[AndresBastidas97]

Dude,

The GM Ultralite doesn't weight 0.4 tons... if weights 1.42... 1.4 ! you sir, have miserably failed.

[aarongrooves]

Loved the story of how he came to be a car designer. I only have one question: what's an idear? 0:34 lol

[Dan Frederiksen]

as your first step, look up the GM Ultralite. then come back and tell me you have new understanding of how light cars can be and that you now understand how wrong 2.4ton is.

I can then tell you about how it can go even further down and how your intuition that batteries are so heavy that it is impossible is wrong.

[Dante Gonxhja]

My heart is ready for you, show me. Enlighten me, I'd love to be proven wrong because I'm not against car innovation but I just don't see how that's possible.

[Dan Frederiksen]

if you could soften your heart and listen to reason I could show you that indeed it is very possible despite what you think you understand about the ariel atom

[Dante Gonxhja]

It's not possible, even the Ariel Atom weighs 600kilos which is just 4 wheels and an engine.

[Dan Frederiksen]

that you have never thought about it before doesn't mean it isn't possible