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EV makers have been toying around the idea of a solar roof, but none have developed a practical solution, so one Tesla Model Y owner wants to take matters into his own hands by creating a solar roof called Beta One, and this creation can reportedly add over 20 miles of range per day.
The end could be near for Fisker. Actually, it may have already happened. In a first-quarter earnings call last week from Magna International, the company stated that Fisker Ocean production is still idled, and it "assumes no further production" will take place. It's not an official announcement from Fisker, and "assume" isn't a definitive stand from Magna. Still, it's pretty damming considering the current state of Fisker.
“Electric” may be the most appropriate word to describe the atmosphere at the recent Beijing motor show, now considered to be one of the world’s largest automobile exhibitions.
While not yet confirmed for Australian showrooms it would give BYD a direct rival to the MG4 and Volkswagen ID.3, with the unveiling of the Ocean M in hot-hatch spec suggesting it could also serve not only as a rival to the MG4 X-Power but also as a cut-price alternative to the BMW i4 and electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs.
Over the weekend, I left my home in the concrete jungle of Seattle and headed deep into the Olympic Peninsula, the landmass that separates the Puget Sound from the Pacific Ocean. Although Seattle is the 15th-largest metropolitan area in America, it only takes about an hour of driving in any direction to find old-growth forests, pine-scented air, and pristine mountain vistas. It's a hiker's paradise.
We're going to guess you were not considering buying a 2023 Fisker Ocean SUV, even at the recent deeply discounted prices. However. On the microscopically remote chance you were considering acquiring an Ocean, Edmunds suggests you reconsider. In fact, the car-buying site doesn't merely suggest, it headlines a piece on the battery-electric SUV it bought in January, «Do not buy a new Fisker Ocean; Fisker's uncertain future makes buying an Ocean too much of a gamble.» What makes the Edmunds piece more interesting than information you already know or mere piling on is that the site details much of its time with the Ocean, from the sorely under-baked delivery version that they paid $69,012 for to the slightly more livable but still misfit version missing promised features and recently hammered by at least 43% in depreciation.
Following recent reports that Fisker has been preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing, today the embattled automaker announced that it is suspending all manufacture of its electric vehicles.
Fisker is in a tough spot at the moment. Henrik Fisker's new upstart electric vehicle company is struggling to sell its Ocean SUV, its stock price dropped to an all-time low of just 38 cents per share on Friday, and it announced on Thursday that it would have to cut 15% of its workforce. Due to its struggles, the company announced that investment into all new projects would be paused until it can find a manufacturing partner. Thankfully for Fisker, it may have already found that partner—Nissan.
Japanese car giant Nissan is considering a $US400 million ($AU610 million) investment to save US electric-vehicle start-up Fisker from bankruptcy and score itself its first electric ute, overseas reports claim.