Fisker Ocean First Drive Experience showcases its cool interior, silent operation

Fisker Ocean’s electric crossovers are already being produced in Austria, and the company plans to ship around 300 in the first quarter of 2023, so it was only a matter of time before some kind of test drive was allowed.

After MotorTrend journalists drove a pre-production prototype in November, Kyle Conner substandard reviews We drove the ocean at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

It was a short, uneventful drive, organized in some kind of parking lot, but nonetheless, the reviewer said something interesting about the EV. We got behind the wheel of a spec’d dual-motor, $69,000 unit. He also has three driving modes: Earth, Fun, and Hyper.

An interesting feature of the dual motor variant is the rear drive clutch disconnect. This basically means that the car will either have front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, depending on the driving mode.

A huge panoramic roof, a rotating 17.1-inch touchscreen and a so-called california mode Open all windows for the experience of wind in your hair.

One thing that Kyle was impressed with was the extremely quiet drivetrain. This is rather difficult to achieve on a car with huge 22 inch wheels.

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At one point, a reviewer sums up the whole experience with the sentence, “I feel better than I thought.”

After getting behind the wheel, Kyle immediately asked two Fisker representatives how to turn the traction control off, but the two representatives were “not chassis representatives,” so they could not give an answer. I couldn’t get it. However, he learned that Fisker’s Ocean does not currently have a one-pedal drive option and has an Autohold feature. That means the vehicle can’t move forward like his other EVs.

The brake pedal feels “very soft”, with a blend of regenerative braking first and then friction braking.

In earth mode, he says, Ocean feels like a front-wheel drive car, but when he puts it in hyper mode, the rear motor kicks in immediately.

The electronic stability program cuts power as soon as it detects wheel slippage. Kyle adds that this is not a canyoning machine.

After a quick short drive, he spoke with the company’s head of user experience (UX) and explained why cars have buttons and screens. His two quick takeaways from this discussion are the ability for drivers to quickly access the home screen with the push of a button, and the ability to rotate the screen.

The head of UX explains that the inspiration for this is an old iPhone model with a home button that always takes you to the phone’s home screen.

The second cool thing is that the central touchscreen can be rotated 90 degrees. You can choose portrait or landscape mode.

Some things weren’t finished yet, like the virtual view of the vehicle, but the navigation, music, climate settings, and distance graph worked perfectly.

The Fisker Ocean EV is not eligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit because it is manufactured by Magna Steyr in Austria.special release version, dubbing onehas a starting price of $68,999, but according to the company’s official website, it’s already sold out.

In addition to this launch edition variant, there are three other trim levels. Ocean Sport has a suggested retail price of $37,499, Ocean Ultra starts at $49,999 and Ocean Extreme starts at $68,999. The cheapest Fisker crossover has a range of 250 miles and is fitted with a single electric motor on the front he axle. The most expensive variant, on the other hand, comes with a dual-motor setup that produces up to 550 horsepower and has a range of up to 350 miles.

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