Welcome to Tech in the Car this is the fantastic Fisker Ocean electric SUV i've got an interview
with Henrik Fisker the CRO of the company coming up shortly but i'm at the LA auto show and this
is a worldwide premiere of this car and this car is all about sustainability it starts at a really
great price around thirty thousand dollars going up to around fifty thousand dollars it has a range
of over 300 miles on most models and it's got cool technology the back windows come down and all of
them open up for your dog so it's basically called California mode because we're here in California
there's solar panels on the roof which give the car extra charge there's a rotating screen in
the middle which means that if you want to watch a movie or charge you could do that
and just like the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and the Kia EV6 it's got bi-directional charging
so this car has a lot of firsts and it's a really exciting opportunity to see it deliveries start in
November 2022 so this is a 2023 model and let's get into my interview now with Henrik Fisker!
Hello and welcome to the channel very nice to me this is a really exciting car there's loads of
cool technology in here do you think you can just maybe give an overview of kind of the key features
so you know we launched the Fisker Ocean here at LA Auto show and it's we are aiming for this
to be the world's most sustainable vehicle so we got a lot of recycled materials inside for
example all the carpets are made from recycled plastic bottles and fishing nets from the ocean
but of course another important aspect of this vehicle is it's fun to drive
it's got some exciting features nobody else have so for example we have the world's longest range
for an SUV/crossover in this price range so the top has 350 mile range in the USA EPA range and
then we got the base vehicle which starts at 37 500 which has a 250 mile range inside we got a
on the top version of screen and actually by push of a button turns from picture mode to landscape
mode from portrait mode to landscape mode we've got solar roof that can give you up to 15 100
miles a year and we got a very advanced powertrain with silicon carbide inverters in the four wheel
drive version uh we have torque vectoring which makes you feel like a formula one car driver when
you drive it and it's uh super fast you know 0 to 16 3.6 seconds in the fastest version
so we have kind of put a lot of effort into this vehicle to really make it a world-class vehicle
okay i mean all of that sounds exciting so for example can you foresee in like
beautiful weather like here in California that solar roof might give you enough to get to work
and back potentially well 1500 miles a year i mean then you have to live really close to your
world okay but the idea is that everything adds you know to the sustainability and
you know i i hope one day solar can give you a lot more but today is it's an add-on you know i
don't think you can drive alone from the solar but it's definitely your starting it helps obviously
and is there as far as the battery technology so you've got new battery technology in your
top trim models what are the benefits of that over lithium-ion technology so it is these are mine so
in the base we have lfp technology which is much lower cost and but also less density which means
you need a little more space which we have in this vehicle so we could still get the 250-mile range
in this vehicle lfp but that's also why we reach our price level of 37 500 so that's important
in the higher level models we have nmc technology which is more energy dense and that's how we get
that super long range so yeah it's very very exciting and do you have i read that you're able
to charge other vehicles with that is that correct as well so we've got bi-directional charging so
first of all in case let's say you have two of these vehicles you can go and your partner
for example is stranded somewhere you can go and charge your partner's vehicle you can you can also
power your home with this vehicle for up to seven days depending on how much electricity you use so
that's another exciting thing that if you do have a power outage you can actually power your home
with this vehicle so i mean i think that's really exciting i think you know there are lots of people
tesla make great cars but i think tesla from my perspective are getting left behind with the
advances that companies like yourself are making and i think you know bi-directional charging is
one of the things which i really like i've tried out on kia and Hyundai and i think it's a really
clever thing so this car is is fast it's fantastic value for money and it's coming out next year how
would you would you so would you say your summary of this car is well what is your summary of this
car summary of this car is it's obviously super advanced we got the latest technology the reason
we have the latest technology is because most car companies take about four years to develop a car
so when you buy a new car today the technology in that car was probably chosen three years ago
in this case we take less than two and a half years to develop it so technology in this car was
chosen this year and when it comes to market next year it's a very new technology and of the second
part is that you know we are using magnester in austria carbon neutral factory to manufacture
this vehicle so we know it's going to be high quality and it's going to come out on time next
year so it's a very exciting car thank you very much your time i appreciate it thank you and uh
maybe when this is able to be driven i can have a drive that would be fantastic thank you very much
Big thank you to Fisker for giving me that interview and for letting me have a look around
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