More than that, the company has plans to release a mass market model for under $40,000 in the future. Sounds familiar, no?

Additionally, the automaker is producing its own batteries under the Fisker Nanotech banner. Reuters reports that the batteries will make use of graphene -- the material that's capable of everything from treating spinal cord injuries to being brighter e-paper -- to hit those lofty range goals.

The batteries themselves will apparently have some lithium in them, but won't be like the lithium-ion cells like what's in the Model S. And that's where Fisker says the company's future is: selling the tech to other manufacturers.

"If you want to reach true mass-market potential, we need probably, eventually, an OEM," Fisker says. "We are having very superficial discussions right now with a couple of them." Tesla, on the other hand, has its battery partner Panasonic building battery cells in the Gigafactory.

Now to see if Fisker's historical smoke scares the likes of Detroit away or not.