Owners of this electric vehicle have been reporting breakdown problems for months

Fisker Ocean has been struggling with various problems for some time, as can be seen from internal documents. Motorists report, among other things, problems with braking, sensors that sometimes don’t work properly, power that seems to suddenly fail and bonnets that open automatically. On top of that, there are also complaints about the company’s customer service.

The strange thing is that problems arise not only among customers, but also among the top people within Fisker, he writes. TechCrunch. Wendy Greuel reportedly experienced her Fisker Ocean SUV losing power on public roads. The company also confirmed this and indicated that the problem with his car had been resolved. However, internal documents describe another case with an employee: the chief financial officer also found something similar when he got out of the car. However, this will relate to a data recorder that is not included in the commercial version.

Symptoms of failure

However, this is now in doubt, because in just a few months more than 100 times of such force has already occurred and been reported, internal documents show. According to Fisker, it is rare and a solution has been found for almost every case. However, this is not the only problem with the car: some 200 documents later, it seems that customers also have problems with the rejection of car keys that even lock in the car, sensors that do not recognize that the driver is there and the loss of brakes. strength. In addition, the bonnet sometimes opens suddenly, especially when driving fast.

If you’re driving fast on the highway and the 12-volt batteries die, that means the car is dead. Maybe the sensors that control the car are causing the battery to drain backwards, or a problem with the water pump. There should be an update for the above problems next week (Version 2.0). It raises the question of whether the car was brought to market too soon, especially since it was already delayed due to issues that needed to be resolved. The company would also not be very happy with the sales performance of the Tesla Y– Compatible.

Problems with the Fisker Sea

However, the crew would notice soon after the release that the missing power, which even caused the car to fail, was problematic. And that various reasons are associated with this. In addition, customers also say that they are very scared in their car and that is understandable if you are not sure if a four-wheel drive is for you. The documents show that it was written: “The client is very scared,” and elsewhere by the client himself: “I could be dead.”

Fisker said in an official response: “Very rare cases of power loss in the middle of the car have been reported. This is due to high-functioning safety systems, and in these cases over-the-air software updates have solved almost all problems. A small number of cases are due to and hardware errors that effectively cause ‘unsafe conditions’, and these have been investigated and resolved on a case-by-case basis.” Complaints about customer service are also said to have been received and the company is also looking into this. Fisker Ocean has been available in the Netherlands since October 2023 at a price of 64,000 euros.

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