Here’s Why You Should Buy an EV from a Bankrupt Manufacturer 

If you can figure out how to make it V2G, count me in on the fire sale. I would definitely pay $25K for virtually unlimited home battery backup on wheels.😂😂

Any chance some of the negatives could have been because it's battery was low/power save?

After discount still $233 to order a key for my 2013 Chevy Volt, versus dealership? Aftermarket eBay Fob is like 30 bucks, program with simple procedure however would still need blade cut

You will get at least upgrade 2.1 soon. The austrian fisker limited subsidy that anounced bankruptcy under self management yesterday is also a good sign for you cause those 50 employees are the hub and connection of Fisker and Magna, so they must be the software guys who had lead the UI developement and what not. Why is it any good ? Well, europe is different cause if you file for bankruptcy in time then you can do that under self management which will give you 3 months more to operate and the staff will not be laid off like in the USA but stay cause their contracts are still valid and they can not leave instantly cause they will get paid by the unemployment insurance of austria - same in germany. So the employees there are not loosing any money or what else. The 3 month are a time to restructure and operate without the load from the debts of the past. And this means that Fisker austria will survive the mother company Fisker Inc. most likely which will also might offer a final update beyond 2.1 cause I expect that they are working on a kind of final gift fixing the biggest issues that are fixable in that time frame and also look for some minor bugs. 3 months - and that it depends on how smart the Fisker owner group might be cause the most important asset should be part of the Fisker Austria company which will be sold in august or later. Especially all the documententation, laptops and what not which are required to upgrade the cars manuallly and to develope the software further. Not sure, but what should a staff of 50 employees do in a tiny market of 9 million citizens ? Quite fair review or presentation of the car - no , I have none, I had been in the car industry here since 1988 when I started studying in the oldest car comoany of the world and came across those with the 4 rings and also the 911 guys, suppliers and what not. Great purchase and I bet it will pay of cause the times are a lot better then back in the days of the Karma which is a far more complicated car as a hybrid with an electrive part which had not been sold that much. I guess the new fisker ocaen america owners club should find solutions for every thing and I still bet that Land Rover might be a buyer cause it would fit perfectly to the Landrover Evoque like styling and would save Landrover from paying CO2 emission fines which are 100 $ per g and those big Land Rover engines are known for CO2. The only way out for Landrover is to compensate with sold EV to get below 95 gr CO2 fleet average (plus maybe 10 gr due to heavier weight) or they would have to buy from Tesla and other EV manufacturers CO2 emission rights. Therefore Fisker might be bought by Landrover, gets a new badge and they can continue after bankruptsy soon cause Magna will be able to restart the assembly line, they can also negotiate a new price for the parts and cars to lower the cost and offer a Landrover OCEAN for a good price - without the debts and obligationsn of the old Fisker Inc. Good luck !

That sponsor is dope but sounds sketchyyyyyy if someone gets your keys lol

They should be open-source in first place.

@@blackmennewstyleall these car companies trying to be tech companies and they should have the right to repair. Govt needs to make a law. The EU is doing it

That's how my local city got screwed by the company that installed all the wireless water meters. After they were basically done installing them in an entire city over 10 years they no longer would service them. The city ended up having to reinstall new ones that aren't proprietary so they didn't end up in the same pickle.

When a company goes bankrupt, there no longer is a company to open source anything. Companies should be required to escrow the documentation so that in case of bankruptcy users still have access to it. Or heck, make it available anyway, because it's literally your paying customers who need it to fix their piece of trash you sold.

agree. That's what's holding me back from pulling the trigger on a discounted fisker.

IDK man I've heard that they're kinda pieces of shit that break down often.

@@person.w9780 Own one and you will find they are a great car. The internet is full of opinions and many of those are influenced by marketing. You know, buy my thing, not their thing.

What’s the name of the RU-vid channel?

You should take a trip to Kansas and fix Hoovies "new" Fisker. Would be a great way to get exposure.

@@nudetaynehatwobble afternoongarage

Coming from a DeLorean owner. 😅

But there won’t be a second attempt.

That's the spirit😂

@@mnhstythis was the 2nd attempt!

@@iaing9028 It’s their third first-attempt

FINALLY.

...or lines of cocaine

I immediately thought built in rolling tray! 🤣🤣🌲🌲💨💨

Popeyes chicken box table

@@Christoph-sd3zi yes also a biscuit tray

Did he actually buy the vehicle? I didn't catch that.

@@okra3000 He says ones they hit 20-25k he is going to get one. Looks like he's test driving one

Not the same phenomenal content since Stephon left. Lazy low hanging fruit content... Bunch of b-roll + voiceover work. 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

Pass the bad decision-making forward 😂

Maybe he just wants the batteries and the motor ... Basically the parts 😂😂😂

Power a home for 4 hrs?

@@johnbaer1528 113 kWh battery, even with using every single f light in the house that would last 4 days.

@@KalleKofot what house would have power consumption of 678 Watt? You lost a zero or two there

​@@KalleKofot nikola tesla would be so proud

@@EllAntares Average EU household electricity consumption is 11 KW per day, average US household consumption is 36 KW per day. So a full battery will last you (on average) around 3 days in the US and 9 days in the EU.

Just don’t wrap it around the local light pole!

Just get a Fisker Ocean Extreme

A viper is a death trap

It's litterally the opposite of a Viper. a quiet comfartable commuter car. over 5 years, you will have paid 20.000$ in gas in a Viper. and only 2000$ in electricity in The Fisker. Potato tomato...

That's such a huge flex man, it's a shame you can't buy both

- or simply - not there... lol... Save on dirty hands - store the sanitiser elsewhere.

It dos not cost that much for a crow bar.

The remants of Saab has a pretty nice looking EV with a claimed 600 mile range from a massive battery. Unfortunately, they are out of time and money.

It's kinda looking like Tesla isn't far behind. Their per car profits used to be 30%. With the price cuts, they're making 5% which is less than the legacy car makers who average around 9%. They don't have anything new in the pipeline at this point.

@@quademasters249 I wouldn't worry about Tesla, they have their loyal fanbase & are the uncontested leading electric car brand that actually still make money on their cars. Many other big car companies are really struggling right now. Take Ford for example; Their EV division lost almost 5 billion dollars last year & it looks like this year will be even worse considering they sell so few EV's they stand to lose more than 130.000$ per sold car. This is just one example, I think Lucid motors lose more than twice as much per sold car so they might be the next to go...Rip.

@@quademasters249 Mezon Kuzk fudged up his own legacy. Instead of keeping quiet and silent, he opened his mouth. That made everything he "owns" suffer. Including Tesla. Partly because people didn't want to be associated, partly because people had enough and left, partly because he's an idiot with about as much management sense as a pear. And i say a pear and not a sh!t, because sometimes (like a broken clock) he shuts the frak up and lets his managers do the bizz talk in his place. NOT these recent times, what with recently axing a good percentage of his Tesla leadership including one of his former right hand men at Tesla, who'd been around from nearly, day one. The fans think that this will last forever and that he's some kind of bizz wizz, but the reality, cord hard reality, is this: while he's fumbling to unzip his fly over his photoshopped manbelly, the other car manufacturers are not only catching up on the lead, but they're leaving tesla in the dirt. In another 4~6 years, it won't make sense to buy those cars if he's around, especially since once you drink the koolaid, there's no going back. And he had a bath in the stuff, gargled it and made those tiny fountains you do at the pool when you're a kid and the water hits you back in the face - with it. Like i said, had the guy shut up, let the Tesla management team do their jobs... Tesla would've had HUGEMONGOUS lead that no manufacturer could've even so much as approached. NOW.. not only is he losing that lead, but he's bleeding talent left and right, TO his enemies. He's not the first to capsize and the biggest fall the worst. So kick back, get some pop and watch the disaster in real time, while pointing out at the fanboys who just can't understand that loyalty doesn't get them anything from a guy who has fake accounts on his own platform to soundboard his own ideas from and to. Guy has his own puppet show, he doesn't need others.

Well, I mean Henrik Fisker founded the company in 2007 went bankrupt, founded it again (slightly different name) in 2016 and what we have now is all they accomplished in all that time. I’m sure they won’t succeed.

yeah, what are you going to do when you need routine maintenance parts, ie brake pads, lights, pump or AC parts?

They are about 10-12k on Copart with very light or no damage

they will become e-waste once the cloud connection is pulled and no software updates - avoid

@@TD_YT066 They would need to ask Richard what to do then... this is his clever advice.

5-10 years down the line, how about now? A woman had her ocean scrapped after a door was damaged and fisker had zero parts available, so the insurance company had to write it off. Fisker is already a nightmare car to own regardless of what Rick thinks.

Yup. A Chinese company bought Fisker Automotive 10 years ago and now it is called Karma Automotive.

I think that they didn't really do away with Mercury. They just stopped making what had previously been called "Lincoln" and started using that name for what had earlier been called "Mercury". Of course it has been a very long time since there was any substantial difference between any of the three brands.

The death of Eagle came to mine as well.

Plus tesla originally had the really good ones from Mercedes. They cheaped out a lot afterwards

how bout MORE buttons in a tesla? what's wrong with that?

A car literally designed to wow someone at the sales floor and nothing else beyond that

@@ABoringTool with what it wows?

@@evlo8059I saw one of these parked in grocery store not knowing at first hand which brand of car it was and I was mesmerized by the looks of it. The video really doesn’t do justice the design of this car is really beautiful in person

Meanwhile my ICE car two buttons. 😂

Man it's one fucking tap to access the HVAC controls. You probably haven't even driven one

this car was made for neither

@@spaceghostmiid that's why I said "sometimes", other times they are complete crap and the company is going under because they don't know how to make a good product that people want.

The Ocean is fill with overdone junk. It's not a simple car for car's sake. The spinning center screen. The float HVAC controls. The rear seat touch screen HVAC controls.

Inception. Lol

did you compare it?

@@greatleader4841 same shit

I hear you but on the tesla model 3 it feels like there is less eye movement to see it than a traditional dash screen. My peripheral vision is better for seeing the road than looking down through the steering wheel I feel

Sure, but let's be real, that's not really the case. If that is such a big issue, what happens when you need to change the temperature? Get a screen notification? Have to look out the side, or take a long blink when tired. Glancing to the side is more of a hassle that you live with than a safety concern. And anyway, regarding speeding, you've got other cars on the road to compare too (which i know many Americans drive by), speed limit warnings or automatic speed control. And, glancing slightly to the side isn't the end of the world. Again, i 100% would like a heads up display, but after the first few days of driving, your habits change.

Tbh glancing at the cluster or off to the side doesn't make a big difference. The only time I care about my speed is when I see a cop or am setting cruse control. There's no safety reason to know your speed.

true, true

But with a tesla u can see ur speed in a corner, in ny car i cant see the speedo when i turn the wheel.​@sebastianorye2702

Clearly there's a subscription to use the accelerator pedal - it says only 500 remaining, after that, pay up or no accelerator for you!

yeah, what's that 500 accelerations left remaining counter, holy big brother batman! 🙄🙄

how many kwh is it?

@@ufcivil 73 kwh I think. with options up to 110 or something

- not just cheaper - mind blowing price destruction. (with an adequate control system). (113kWh for $25k - near wholesale cell price) Plus spare parts to repair the other 3 still on the road.

Battery pack with wheels. Power your home, drives you around, can make money driving for Uber... I wish they would sell here in EU

No resale value. Just let Rich take that hit. Have you thought about having the young guy with the Mustang come to the shop so y'all can work on it together?

Also, to be honest same

im a buyer at 2k brand new

The fiska will fist ya

Muh liKes . Hustle on king.

Pronouncing their name IS a fart sound. The nearly whisper/silent type. Hope he won't give the keys to Leenda when she's busy "twirling" out her selfies.

Fisker made windows for dogs? We need to save this company.

Ya, I think you’re right. They call it California mode where you hit a button and all windows drop down

- you mean signing cheques... lol... or prepping a stogie bit blunt

The things that came across my mind when I started reading this vs what came across my mind when you say “something that would lead to you not having to eat that day” 😂😂😂😂 “When the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful…since there’s no place to go…”

Not if he makes it digital.. and changes the word on the fly under overpasses

@@wva5089 And power it with the solar panel?

Or someone flying a drone

or if the car was on the bottom of the ocean

Isn’t the BMW and the Toyota they built the same car? The “new Supra”.

@@av_oid Minor correction "Old BMW=New Supra", Richard Hammond did a review on it, minor metalwork changes and slap Toyota badges on.

@@av_oid correct, the Supra and z4. They also make the MB G wagon, a couple Jaguars and apparently the 5 series (according to Wiki)

Once it’s BK then no updates and nowhere to repair it and no parts if you need a part.. you will own a BRICK

Yup totally correct. Why take that chance.

​@@javierferrer8898Maybe if you own an Electrified Garage? 😉

He’s wearing an ankle monitor for a wreck he caused or something like that.

- every time a "new architecture" is rolled out, there is no other supply chain, end of story. lol.. If you want easy repair start with vehicles which fill wrecking yards (parts are easy to find).

You'll have to jailbreak the car.

They’re useful commuter cars if you can plug them in at home and know where to charge it to (depending on battery).

sure for hundred bucks there would be. just for the battery. if I could buy ANY ev registered as a real car for under used/crashed/whatever as long as not burnt for 1000 i'd buy it.

Well, good thing is you have nothing to worry about because not a single one will be sold for a hundred dollars

I’d love to find an affordable EV. How do you feel they’re a scam?

Good thing I'm driving my mine into the ground and not worrying about resale. A car is a consumable, not an investment.

I want one so bad!

As a Scot who used to cycle as my main form of transport, I concur - if you live in Scotland. But when I moved to California that became completely impractical (too hot most of the year; distances too far; people looking at you like you’re insane; having to cross 4 lanes of traffic on a 55mph speed limit every time you need to turn left; having to take longer routes than cars because you can’t use the freeways). But I go back to the humble bicycle whenever I visit Scotland - cycling faster than the traffic never gets old!

Try to buy 300lbs of goods, then to take it home 25mls away up hill. Then you will get your aswer why people use cars in a first place.

@@Helloverlord What is wrong with the metric system, living 2.5 miles or less from the store and not buying vast quantities of junk to 'haul'. Hauling, hauling, hauling is so American and so boring. Do Americans eat 300lbs of burgers every day, hauling, hauling, hauling burgers just to be American, just to make that massive truck worth having. Hauling, hauling, hauling! Look how manly my manboobs are because I am hauling, hauling, hauling like a tough American should! Hauling as if my life depends on it! Hauling, hauling, hauling coz that is what Americans do!!!

I've seen your towns. Less than 2 miles of travel to get to the local sainsbury? That's a dream by American standards. You're lucky to have a "Good grocery store" within 7 miles.

FREEDUMB

(Rich loves saying such names wrong - but then there are other US places with indian or French names that are said wrong - the right way...)

I thought it was a kind of noise, like when you’re ill. But what do I know? I’m from Dess Moynes

They are still being produced today! Another company bought the rights and all the manufacturing tooling from Fisker in 2012 and since then it has been produced as the Karma Revero. This is also the reason the original 2500 Fisker Karma’s still have reasonable service support.

- so, Electrified Garage can't help?? Maybe Gruber motors have contacts...

I’ve reached out to EG and the guy who fixes karma’s in PA. Both don’t have the diagnostic software for the ocean. 😢

Well, someone, maybe you, just needs to figure out what mix of parts it is, cars are like legos, it will 99% not be anything custom. IE. for fisker karma you also do not need special diagnostics, but it is chevy volt + ford mondeo 4 + ford focus + ford fusion phev + for fusion duratec + saab 9-3 to connect to pretty much all the system. Same will be here, just takes time to find out, or you can wait for someone to do it for you. It is not just click done, so do not expect car repair shop to be able to do it. ... well now I have written this, it occurred to me, that Tesla is pretty much the only exception running mostly custom stuff.

Do you have a hunch of what’s making it inoperable? Is it on the data, electric, or mechanical side? I know you might not know just interested and seeing what’s making not possible to diagnose.

Ariya

How can't they be profitable at 60k a car? They screwed up massively somewhere to lose money at that price point cause I don't see the value even at 50 brand new.

​@@AceEverettbecause he's making stuff up and doesn't know a thing

@@AceEverett Rivian can't even make money selling at $90k. Rivian's unit cost is something like $132k. So not a surprise Fisker is losing money at 2/3 that. Building EVs is the best way to burn investor cash right now.

You're speaking of a liquidator that comes in after bankruptcy. Yes, liquidators will try to sell at MSRP because they don't have to keep a company afloat and don't have to honor any sales. The firesales goign on now are Fisker giving out the deals while it is still operating.

technically it is, enough so that last rounds investors lost everything

noice

You mean higher expectations?

City of sin.

Lynn ah the stench at low tide

The palm pre actually had fans, though?😂

Palm Pre was ahead of its time.

Don't insult the Palm Pre like that.

AKA married couples.

This is what any believer would say.

You are not.

Wasn't it 40 yrs ago?

Yeah and the corolla now runs on 0W8 oil. So we will see if they can’t still hold up. (This is for 23-24 2.0s)

You read that elsewhere, it impressed you for some reason, and you now regurgitate it in order to appear thoughtful. Hooray, internet.

@KentBuchla It's a common Right Wing Chode claim that Liberals are all ackchuallullally Commies who want to make it so you own nothing. Your soiled underpants are my fresh underpants, Comrade.

Is it false?

Truth

@@beerdedwanderer Yes, what a person goes full absolutist (and, yes, I realize. That

- my car radio is stuck on Spanish currently - I can't find the menu item to fix it while parked . Let alone trying to do so while driving. (I think there is something wrong with it) - Lucky I never plan on using emergency assist - whose menu I can't understand. lol

I agree. It has not aged well. That mustache is hideous.

Mustache is hideous but the rest ain’t bad. Didn’t herick fisker design the DB7?

Bro used “bro”. Bigger fail.