You’ll be able to get fingerprints on Fisker’s latest creation in Vegas next January

Thought you’d wait for an old-fashioned ‘motor show’ to have a butchers at the new Fisker EMotion, did you? No, that’s not how the car reveal game works these days. You must flaunt it at a tech show. Which is why Fisker is bringing the new EMotion, with its fast-charging capability and self-driving prowess to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas come January 2018. That’s right, the EMotion will stand alongside new VR headsets and audio systems, rather than a hall of overpolished motor cars.

The technology behind the Fisker’s ‘real-world autonomous driving’ are the LiDAR sensors, which 3D-map their environment so the car can accurately identify obstacles, other road users, and so on. As carmakers struggle to integrate the massive amount of cameras, sensors and lasers/radars into the noses of their cars, Fisker’s going to make the centre ‘nosecone’ of the EMotion its trademark, proudly putting the LiDAR gubbins front and centre as a styling feature.

Quanergy, the company providing the crucial technology, said: “Our leading LiDAR sensors will elevate the autonomous capabilities of the EMotion to support Henrik [Fisker’s] vision of a truly autonomous and connected experience in a luxury automobile that will further advance the world’s view of autonomous and electric vehicles.”

Fisker’s previously revealed that the EMotion will be built around the world’s largest EV battery pack (hence its giant wheelbase) and ought to be capable of a 400-mile range. A new ‘Ultra Charger’ network promises you’ll be able to juice the batteries to the tune of 125 miles worth of driving in only nine minutes. With a base price of $129,900, this is no bargain Tesla rival, before you start with the Elon comparisons, but you can be sure this will ignite a whole new inferno of EV superfan mudslinging. Tesla Autopilot vs LiDAR. Ultra Charge vs Superchargers. Model S, Model X and Model 3 vs the EMotion. And that’s before the new Audi e-tron and Porsche Mission E arrive. At an actual motor show, perhaps…

It’s got butterfly doors. It’s got a big battery. And it’s quite fast…

It’s all about butterfly doors, dahling. Like the BMW i8, McLarens 720S and F1 and LaFerrari - among many others, we add this: the new Fisker EMotion.

Henrik Fisker’s new electric car project is finally here, unveiled in full at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Get past those show-stopping ingress points however, and you find something that’ll give a certain electric car company something to chew on…

We must first discuss the looks. Henrik – famously responsible for the design of the Aston Martin Vantage and BMW Z8 – clearly hasn’t lost his touch. There are elements of his former hybrid motor, the Karma, and everything has been sculpted in the name of the tech underneath.

It’s built from carbon fibre and aluminium, and features elements designed around the LiDARs dotted at the front and rear of the car. The door handles are flush, operated via your smartphone. It’s big, too: 5m in length and 1.4m in height, around the size of a BMW 5 Series. The wheels are similarly huge: 24s as standard, on low rolling-resistance Pirellis.

Manage to open the doors, and you’re treated to ultra-soft leather, four-individual, fully electric and adjustable “first-class” seats, three driver-orientated screens, and much more including the option of a monster 27in curved rear screen and a five-seat configuration (basically a rear-bench).

The speed on offer is something else entirely. It features “multiple” electric motors on board, producing more than 575kW of power (or 780bhp) to all four wheels. This translates into a 0-60mph time of “less than” three seconds, and a top speed of 161mph. Any way you cut it, that’s fast.

The range? Fisker reckons on more than 400 miles. Those LiDARs also help it achieve up to level four autonomous driving capability, too.

It’ll be Made in America, at a location to be divulged during the second half of the year, though there’s no current word on prices.

There is word however, on Fisker’s other little project: a new solid-state battery. This is also being showcased at CES alongside the EMotion, and will offer two and a half times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries.

The showpiece of this tech? Fisker reckons “breakthrough technology will enable dramatically longer ranges of more than 500 miles on a single charge, and charging times as low as one minute”. Yowser.

This SuperBattery is scheduled for car use after 2020, though it might appear in phones as early as this year.

“With the EMotion,” explains Fisker, “we’re introducing edgy, dramatic and emotionally-charged design/proportions, complemented with technological innovation that moves us into the future. That design balance is what has made the Fisker brand emotionally connect with our consumers.”

It’s certainly a good-looking thing…