Fisker’s Ocean Has Reliability Problems (2024)

Fisker’s Ocean Has Reliability Problems (2024)


Fisker, the American manufacturer of electric vehicles, is going through a difficult period. Just like competitor Lucid, the brand is facing disappointing sales figures, with only a third of the expected sales volume! But Fisker’s problems don’t end there. The sea of ​​​​SUVs suffers from a series of technical defects, to the extent that on the Techcrunch website it lists all the incidents that the owners of that model have experienced.

A large number of these owners report a sudden loss of power, but also – and even more worrying – stalling errors, where the car slows down suddenly while driving. Techcrunch explains that “Fisker Ocean customers have seen a total of more than a hundred different cases of power loss. Fisker informed us that all these issues are believed to be isolated cases and that almost all of them have been resolved with a software update. ” The hope that questions between. In fact, other serious problems have been noted, such as loss of brake power, problems with locking the car, seat sensors not recognizing the presence of a passenger or another opening of the hood at high speed!

All this seems to indicate that the Sea was formed very quickly. Car manufacturers were therefore not founded in a day. And while designing a new car is a big challenge in itself, perhaps even more so for electric cars, that applies to building a distribution network and an after-sales service worthy of the name. Obstacles that Fisker also seems to be facing…

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Sepulcher Pierre-Benoit


Written by the author: Sepulcher Pierre-Benoit

Cars, men’s fashion, travel or gadgets: Pierre-Benoît Sepulcher writes for the lifestyle section of various Belgian magazines, and since 2013 for Vroom.
Being a city boy, he is attracted to new mobility, but he also won’t say ‘no’ to a good old fight.

Photo ©: Fisker.