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At the peak of the hype for the return of Fisker, I was at CES, this was a few years ago, I think 2020, and saw the car when it was concept still, and met Henrick and his wife, the wife was the marketing Manager or something. Didn't talk to Henrick myself but overheard him talking. Henrick himself had some accent and talked to people. The company seemed super small with CEO and wife running the both themselves. I think they had a couple of those $200/day Vegas tradeshow chicks who know nothing but they just look cute for the booth.
In 2012 whenever they went bankrupt, I always thought the guy was a scammer. When they came back I thought, maybe I was wrong and he just got crushed because Tesla model S had longer range. Tesla did copy the looks from Fisker back in the day though in my opinion.
Fast forward back to CES 2020 this time the vibe I got from Henrick and his wife was just two con artists who were there to once again rob investors. I always hated the fact that he never went to jail in 2012 and seeing him doing it again in broad daylight, with his wife, was astonishing. I still gave him the benefit of the doubt. And boy I was wrong.
Interesting the news and media don't blame him. On Reddit no one mentions his name. That's how good of a con artist he is. I think he is on par with Elizabeth Holmes or worse. Hollywood should make a movie about his twice cons.
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It can solar charge 3-4 miles per day on bright sunny day. You will lose more than that because your car needs to stay up to take that charge. Model Y is most efficient as car can sleep when not in use.
My MYP does not sleep. We were gone six days with car in garage. Took battery down 3%.
That's not the definition of paperweight nor is it related to a software issue. Your Reddit reference is also bs…no one needs to speculate, just go to eBay and look for a karma…a 12 year old, so called paper weight car still going for 35-45k range
80k for a long range Model Y? Lol. I find that hard to believe. It's $41k (after the 7.5k instant rebate). Full self driving is an $12k option and the few other options add up to maybe another 4k.
Anyone can see that on their website right now.
Fisker is doing this fire sale due to their inability to keep customer deposits in order and are now bleeding money because of this.
did you think the Model Y was ALWAYS $41k? lol.
were you not there when the model Y hit $80k during the pandemic before elon started aggressively cutting prices. what was hard to believe? a quick googling will show you the truth? here's a google docs of someone tracking the price... anyone can see.
$66k pretax with 0 options. add FSD for 12k and tax/license/fee you just hit $80k, and there was no $7.5k rebate at the time since tesla already hit their max 200k cars produced (before the new rule). the subreddit was full of people PISSED at the insane price cutting tesla has been doing. i didn't pay for an $80k Model Y but i definitely paid almost $65k out the door
I find it off that no one is mentioning Lucid. Based on their stock dive I'd imagine they'll be going down next (yes I know about the Saudis). Maybe Polestar at some point later
The MKHD review was a little off. The 2.0 updates fixed the software issues he ranted about. The company had asked him to patiently wait for the update but bashed them instead. I'd love for him to update his review on the updated 2.0
He reviewed the product as it was. Every product review cannot wait for "the next software version" that doesn't exist, and isn't available to anyone.
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Kinda odd this company took a weird cool car out of the grave, made a generic uninspired 5 seat SUV, then went back into the grave. Like didn't they have foxconn or someone backing them for the relaunch? Bizarre they prepared so little
Wikipedia says this company Declared bankruptcy in November 2013.
I'm no scientist but that was like 10 years ago.
Edit: Nvm. Apparently that was Fisker automotive NOT Fisker Inc. Both founded by same guy, trying to sell same sort of products. You'd think people would have realized it was a bad idea to invest in a business that failed like 2-3 years prior when it was essentially the exact same business with the same name.....
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The minute every country basically said they were going to relax the timelines on EV adoption and mandates for automakers, Mercedes and other companies could not wait to pull back and start focusing more on ICE cars. That said everything. Like I said, take away the tax credits and start charing EV owners a road tax too and let's see how sales really go. My business partner had a Mach E, it was nice, not a bad vehicle until he barely made it up here one day in the winter and he had to find a charger and I had to pick him up. Got rid of it shortly after and went back to gas. My impressions of the Mach E, great acceleration, very comfortable seats, meh styling, can't tow shit, like at all, and price way too high. One of my neighbor's is a retired auto exec, I was talking to his wife a few days ago who is on her third EV and she even said they would never have EVs as their only cars, He has a gas pickup truck and she drives the EV around town. One house, Model S, Model 3, Toyota Sienna, another Model Y, Honda Pilot, another house Ford Lightning, Audi Q7, another Blazer EV, GMC Denali. 4 houses out of 100 that have EVs and none 100% EVs.
lol 😂 for your rich neighbors have EVs. I can't afford because there is no Slickdeals yet for EVs until one day BYD comes
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How does this compare to model Y. I learned model Y quality is really bad. Even ioniq 5 is far better than model Y in build quality. People say ioniq 5 or ev6 is more comfortable to drive than model Y
I can't believe this company is in this position. I remember getting into one of their EVs back in 2010 at a show and it was so cool. they were ahead of the curve
do not buy it warning from Edmund lol. I suspect in 20 years, these will be worth a small fortune if they really go out of business and stop producting any https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/...ocean.html
I don't think ev's will follow the same value path rare ice cars produced. Even later model tech heavy ice orphans are not particularly well received fan favorites.
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In 2012 whenever they went bankrupt, I always thought the guy was a scammer. When they came back I thought, maybe I was wrong and he just got crushed because Tesla model S had longer range. Tesla did copy the looks from Fisker back in the day though in my opinion.
Fast forward back to CES 2020 this time the vibe I got from Henrick and his wife was just two con artists who were there to once again rob investors. I always hated the fact that he never went to jail in 2012 and seeing him doing it again in broad daylight, with his wife, was astonishing. I still gave him the benefit of the doubt. And boy I was wrong.
Interesting the news and media don't blame him. On Reddit no one mentions his name. That's how good of a con artist he is. I think he is on par with Elizabeth Holmes or worse. Hollywood should make a movie about his twice cons.
Anyone can see that on their website right now.
Fisker is doing this fire sale due to their inability to keep customer deposits in order and are now bleeding money because of this.
were you not there when the model Y hit $80k during the pandemic before elon started aggressively cutting prices. what was hard to believe? a quick googling will show you the truth? here's a google docs of someone tracking the price... anyone can see.
https://docs.google.com/spreadshe...=23
$66k pretax with 0 options. add FSD for 12k and tax/license/fee you just hit $80k, and there was no $7.5k rebate at the time since tesla already hit their max 200k cars produced (before the new rule). the subreddit was full of people PISSED at the insane price cutting tesla has been doing. i didn't pay for an $80k Model Y but i definitely paid almost $65k out the door
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I'm no scientist but that was like 10 years ago.
Edit: Nvm. Apparently that was Fisker automotive NOT Fisker Inc. Both founded by same guy, trying to sell same sort of products. You'd think people would have realized it was a bad idea to invest in a business that failed like 2-3 years prior when it was essentially the exact same business with the same name.....
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do not buy it warning from Edmund lol. I suspect in 20 years, these will be worth a small fortune if they really go out of business and stop producting any
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/...ocean.html
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