Relatively compact, yet handy
Fisker recently showed the Fisker Alaska for the first time, an electric pick-up that is certainly important for North America. This Fisker Alaska is now being heard from again, so that we know, among other things, what kind of battery packs are in the car.
The Fisker Alaska is a four-door pickup with a length of 5.30 meters. A lot, but still clearly less than a Ford F-150 Lighting (5.91 meters) and a Rivian R1T (5.51 meters). The Fisker Alaska is therefore what they call a ‘mid-size truck’ in the US, in the class of the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma, among others. So relatively compact.
Normally, those somewhat more manageable proportions entail major disadvantages when it comes to usability, especially if, as with the Alaska, a large double cabin is involved as standard. Fisker has a handy solution for this, in the form of a flexible ‘Houdini’ partition wall between the cabin and the bucket. If you open that wall and the tailgate, according to Fisker, a loading floor with a length of more than 2.80 meters is created. In addition, there is a closed luggage compartment in the nose, a facility that a pick-up with combustion engines does not have by definition.
The Fisker Alaska with the Houdini hatch open.
The interior is also full of handy features. For example, Fisker speaks of ‘the largest cup holder in the world’, which is an impressive claim in a world in which the US exists. You can simply drink your huge Pepsi cup with your cowboy hat on, but you can also store that headgear in a – yes – specially intended holder.
Behold the largest cup holder in the world.
We still don’t know the weight of the Alaska, but Fisker is sticking to the goal of making it the lightest electric pickup in the world. This is underlined by the size of the available battery packs. With 75 and 113 kWh, they are far from small, but they are still smaller than the batteries of the competitors mentioned. Depending on the version, the driving range is 230 to 340 miles, or 370 to 547 km, of course according to the generally stricter American measurement method. Fisker is also active in Europe, but here the emphasis will probably not be on the pick-up.
Production of the Fisker Alaska will start in the first quarter of 2025, the manufacturer reports. From that period there is also a novelty that applies to all Fisker models: the possibility to charge at Tesla superchargers in the US. Just like Ford and General Motors, among others, Fisker opts for the ‘North American Charging Standard’ connection, or a charging connection developed by Tesla that only Tesla uses to date. Most American car manufacturers prefer the NACS plug over the CCS combo, which is used in North America in CCS1 form and thus differs from the CCS2 plug that is standard in Europe.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl