The American luxury car brand Fisker is going to produce an electric Pope Mobile for the Vatican. It will be based on the Fisker Ocean, an SUV that the company wants to market at the end of next year.
The two founders of Fisker met with the Pope on Thursday to show him their vision for an electric Pope car. The car was to become a Fisker Ocean, but with the characteristic turret on top, from where the Pope can greet crowds. How the Pope reacted to the designs, Fisker does not report.
Fisker also does not write about any bullet and explosion-resistant glass for the turret. The well – known Mercedes-Benz M-Class of the Vatican has that, for example; it was widely used by Pope Benedict XVI, predecessor of the current Pope, Francis.
It is not the first fully electric car that the Vatican would get its hands on. The BBC wrote that the Papacy got an all-electric Renault Kangoo in 2012, but it didn’t become the new main transport due to a lack of security measures, such as that bullet-proof glass. If this really becomes the new Pope Mobile, it will be the very first electric variant.
