The run up to Fisker Ocean was a long one. The American manufacturer already showed the first plates of the Ocean in 2019 and presented a pre-production version of that electric SUV at the beginning of 2020 during the CES in Las Vegas. Now the final version is finally ready.
The current Fisker has nothing and everything to do with the company that you know in the Netherlands from plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma. The then Fisker went bankrupt years ago and found a new owner in the Chinese investor Wanxian Group, who renamed the brand Karma. Former CEO and founder – and designer – Henrik Fisker went his own way and founded the current Fisker in 2016. Fisker showed an apparently production-ready version of his first car at the beginning of 2020: the Ocean. That electric SUV is now finally ready for production.
The Fisker Ocean is a 4.78 meter long SUV with a 2.92 meter wheelbase, which makes it several centimeters longer than a BMW X3. Despite the fact that Fisker now presents the Ocean in production-ready form, it still keeps a lid on the size of the battery pack. Fisker previously mentioned the arrival of an 80 kWh battery, but we now know that the Ocean will be available with two different battery sizes. The entry-level version gets the Touring Range battery, good for a range of 402 kilometers. This front-wheel drive 279 hp version gets more expensive brothers with what Fisker calls the Hyper Range battery. Depending on the chosen version, these 548 hp (Extreme: 558 hp) hp four-wheel drive flavors come to about 565 kilometers on a single charge.
Austria’s Magna-Steyr will produce the Fisker Ocean. Entry-level version Sport will have a starting price of about €33,000. For the top version Extreme and the first 5,000 One editions to be built, you will lose about €61,000. Fisker has plans to sink its teeth into the European market as well, but is targeting the American market first. The Fisker Ocean will eventually be joined by a pick-up called Alaska.
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