The Fisker Ocean is an interesting electric car that could do some quite interesting things in the family EV segment. The entry-level price for the front-wheel drive 275-mile version is $35,995, which is like Kia Nero EV money. This is a whole lot of car for $35,995, even if you can only afford the front-wheel drive version and 275 miles of range might turn into more like 225-250 in real-world use.

It's a decent chunk of range compared to those cars that are priced at $30,000 or less. There's value in the entry-level model and there's value in the Twin motor model. This is at heart a pretty sensible car - it's about reassurance. It's got the range you need, it's got the space you need, and it works. It will suit you.

Dynamically, it's fine, comfy, it'll appeal more to your sort of Land Rover, Volvo, Mercedes buyer than it would to your BMW, Audi, Porsche Macan type buyer because it's not especially sporty - it's not exciting. After a Tesla, it might feel a little bit middle of the road. But that's okay, Tesla has put on that sort of sporty firmness, don't they? That kind of speed in the steering, that firmness in the suspension.

This car has none of that - it's very grown up. It's very easy to drive, but it's comfy, it's fairly quiet, and it's practical. It isn't the most luxurious or lavish sort of car. The Fisker team thinks that's fading away slowly. They think people don't want their old-school luxury car trappings anymore.

They think your electric car buyer of today is much more likely to respond to a sustainable model of building cars than they are to something that just feels a little bit more expensive. So, the materials in this car are quite widely recyclable. They're designed and specified so that they haven't got silly coatings or funny little effects on the dashboard, moldings, or door cards - so that they're easy to recycle.

They're simpler to make, they require less resource. Same with the seat upholstery and the decorative Alcantara here on the dash. It's nice, it's not overdone. They haven't added decoration for the sake of it because that just makes the manufacturer complicated and they don't want that.

That's time, that's resource. They're all about streamlining to make things easier. They've done life cycle assessments on this car - concerned with how much energy is used upstream of their manufacturing, with building the components right through the usage phase of the car. And they think this has a lower life cycle carbon impact than all of its electric rivals cars like the Polestar 2.

The Volvo XC40 Recharge and considering the size of its battery. I think that's pretty impressive. So, there's every reason to believe that this car can do some fairly big things in the electric car market because it's well-priced, because it's practical, because it looks good, because it's got the usable range that it needs to really reassure people that they can use an electric car and it can be viable for them.

But it's also because it's coming from a new brand - it hasn't got all that baggage that the legacy brands have to contend with. If somebody's looking to buy their first electric car, they want to make a change in their life, they want to do something responsible. And I know lots of people like to debate the rights and wrongs of electric cars till the cows come home.

But if you've decided that your next family car is going to be electric, whatever the reason, you probably don't want to buy a car from a legacy brand. You probably want the world to know that you've done something different. That's why people buy Teslas well now they can buy a Fisker instead - I mean that's choice but it's also a statement isn't it.

I mean it's a problem that Legacy brands are going to contend with ultimately. It's why Mercedes EQ cars look like that, I suppose, because they're trying to be an anti-Mercedes so there you go that's the Fisker Ocean - an interesting electric car.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign cars have already brought us so many new and exotic brand name tabernate well here's one you might just already know behind me is the all-new Fisker ocean this is a mid-sized all-electric SUV that's been designed and engineered in California but it's being made under license in Austria at Magnus Tire which is the same company that makes the jaguar i-pace and e-pace the BMW Z4 and the Toyota Supra now this car is all about usability range sustainability but also style it's been designed by the same man that bought you the BMW Z8 and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage and it's a good looking car isn't it a little bit Range Rover evoki perhaps from some angles but still distinctive and you might think it looks even better when I tell you that this isn't some hundred thousand pound luxury segment irrelevance it's a car that's coming to the UK this year 2023 and it's going to be available from less than 40 000 pounds so Fisker clearly is a name you need to know so here we are then folks the Fisker ocean SUV looks on the face of it like a pretty ordinary mid-sized electric car um but it's got some interesting features um and some really significant ones I think and we'll start with the slightly sillier ones and move our way to the more important ones so you know how Teslas make that funny sort of reversing noise at low speed safety noise I think Johnny Smith referred to it as chorus of dead people quite amusingly well this makes its own noise and it's a bit like somebody sort of tuning up a Fender Stratocaster or something it's kind of like an electric guitar noise I quite like it um it comes with a solar panel on the roof now you might if you know this car you might have read that about it you only get it if you have the top of the range one so if you're spending sixty thousand pounds you get an EV with a solo panel on the roof which is you know what people have been asking for isn't it why on Earth don't they put solar panels on those electric cars so they charge themselves or well the reason is because solar panels generally are heavy and expensive and not worth the power that they would add to an electric car if you did that I mean now evidently they're lighter and maybe worth adding this one Fisker reckons maybe adds 1500 miles to the range of this car over a year if it's parked somewhere sunny in the UK I don't suppose it would quite add that many miles but listen they're three miles aren't they if you went on a holiday over the summer parked through it for 10 days and you came back and it had 40 or 50 more miles than when you left it well that might get you home mine it might make the difference so why not so that's the solar panel covered off next on the list of silly features you might have noticed this 17-inch infotainment screen um it's quite large I'm clashing this as a silly feature even though it might be one of the reasons you like the car in the first place it's got a lot of functionality integrated within it a bit like the same system on a Tesla has um the reason they do it like that is so they can add functionality and change functionality over the air simply with the software if there were more Mark switches around the around the interior you couldn't change their function um so it is the way it is for a reason it's not just because touch screen but what it does when you're sitting in your car plugged into a fast charger waiting for an hour to fill the battery you can put it into Hollywood mode and it spins round and goes horizontal and then you've got a 17 inch wide screen system that you can watch your favorite Netflix TV show on while you're waiting for your car to charge there is also a little fold out table in the armrest they call it a taco tray it just sits about here so you can put your coffee or your Dunkin Donuts or whatever right next to you while you're sat watching your TV show and the passenger's got a little fold out table as well and it's all very sort of drive-in movie you know they like that it's a bit American Market but um I quite like it as well next on the list of silly features California mode now again if you buy an upper level car all well what are we one two three four five six seven out of eight panes of Glass on this car can drop down and open up and of course the sunroof does too so when you're just driving along and you fancy I'm in the windows you can press this button up here we are and go into California mode there we are now that's that's not just the side windows open that's the rear windows and the windows at the side of the boot and the rear screen and the sunroof supposed to give you a sort of open-air convertible like driving experience for when you're cruising down sunset or around the M25 on a Friday night whatever takes you fancy but it gets quite blurry and noisy when you're being overtaken by hgvs so we'll pop it back up for now while I talk to you up they go quite Noble see that but again I'm classing it as a silly feature right to get back to the technical side of this car this is becoming more important stuff now as I said you can have a single motor front wheel drive vistaration that'll come with about 275 horsepower and about 275 miles of European wltp certified usable range that has a lithium ion phosphate battery they won't say for now how much capacity it has but we can imagine it's probably about 65 70 kilowatt hours of usable capacity because it's lfp it's cheaper than the other battery capacity so the other battery so if you have the twin motor fiscal ocean you get a bigger nickel manganese Cobalt battery of the sort that has been more widely used by electric cars generally um and that has 113 kilowatt hours of Total capacity that's a big battery considering you can get one of those cars for about 50 000 pounds in the UK for that sort of money Volvo Hyundai BMW they'll give you about 75 kilowatt hours of usable power maybe a little more Tesla maybe might give you 80 85 kilowatt hours nobody gives you over a hundred kilowatt hours of usable battery capacity for that sort of money is to usable range they claim something like 440 miles of wltp range for the upper level versions of this car I've been driving this one today started out with about 90 charge and indicated 700 kilometers of range and I thought well that'll disappear as soon as we hear the the Autobahn but it hasn't um I think this would genuinely be a 350 400 mile car in mixed UK driving perhaps 350 on the motorway 400 if you did a bit of slower a road as well around town maybe 450 500. that's a lot more range than you get anywhere else for about fifty thousand pounds so that is a big value selling point of the sort that Henrik Fisker has been talking about for this car he wants to bring people in to buy an ocean who haven't been brave enough to have an EV before people who maybe think oh that won't work for me because I can't charge at home because my town isn't particularly well serviced for fast charges because I've got a long commute whatever he wants those people to think again when they read about this car and I think they will because it's the sort of car that you could maybe charge up once a week you've got a 400 mile range that's the same as filling up a combustion engine car once a week you don't necessarily need to be able to charge it at home to make viable sense out of the ownership model so that's important I think you know your pole Stars your Nissan aryas even your Teslas and your and your Ford Mustang that Keys they're not at 400 usable miles yet are they and then we can talk about the value of the cheaper model so the entry level price for the Fisker ocean for that front wheel drive 275 mile version is 35 995 I mean wow that's like Kia Nero EV money it's it's a Peugeot e 2008 in mid-spec probably isn't it I mean this is a whole lot of car for 35.995 even if you can only afford the front wheel drive version and 275 miles of range might turn into more like 225 250 in the this is a decent chunk of range compared to those cars there's a lot of being these for 35 and a bit Grand have probably done even do 200 miles so there's value in the entry level model and there's value in the Twin motor model this is at heart a pretty sensible car it's a rational car that's what it's about it's about reassurance it's got the range you need it's got the space you need it works it will suit you and that's the main thing dynamically it's fine comfy it will appeal I think much more to your sort of Land Rover Volvo Mercedes buyer than it would to your BMW Audi Porsche Macan type buyer because it's not especially sporty it's not exciting after a Tesla it might feel a little bit middle of the road but Tesla's put on that sort of sporty firmness don't they that kind of speed in the steering that firmness in the suspension this car has none of that it's very grown up it's very easy to drive but it's comfy it's fairly quiet and it's practical it isn't the most um luxurious Rich lavish sort of car they they sort of think the trappings of your old school luxury car brands might be sort of fading away slowly they think people don't want them anymore they think your electric car buyer of today is much more likely to respond to a sustainable model of building cars than they are to something that just feels a little bit more expensive so the materials in this car are quite widely recyclable um they're designed and specified so that they haven't got they haven't got silly Coatings or funny little effects on the dashboard moldings or the door cards so that they're easy to recycle they're simpler to make they require less resource same with the seat upholstery and the decorative Alcantara here on the dash it's nice it's not overdone um they haven't added decoration for the sake of it because that just makes the that makes the manufacturer complicated and they don't want that that's time that's resource they're all about streamlining to make things easier and they've done life cycle assessments on this car concerned with how much energy is used Upstream of their manufacturing with a building of the components right the way through the usage phase of the car and they think this has a lower life cycle carbon impact than all of its electric Rivals cars like the pole star 2 the Volvo xc40 recharge and considering the size of its battery I think that's pretty impressive so there's every reason to believe that this car can do some fairly big things I think in the electric car market because it's well priced because it's practical because it looks good because it's got the usable range that it needs to really reassure people that they they can use an electric car and it can be viable for them but it's also because it's coming because it's from a new brand it hasn't got all that baggage that the Legacy brands have to contend with if somebody's looking to buy their first electric car they want to make a change in their life they want to do something responsible you can debate the Rights and Wrongs of electric cars till the cows come home and I know lots of people like to do that but if you have decided that your next family car is going to be electric whatever the reason you probably don't want to buy a car from a legacy brand you probably want the world to know that you've done something different surely that's why people buy Teslas well now they can buy a Fisker instead I mean that's choice but it's also a statement isn't it I mean it's a problem that Legacy brands are going to contend with ultimately it's why Mercedes EQ cars look like that I suppose because they're trying to be a sort of an anti-mercedes so there you go that's the physical ocean an interesting electric car I think could do some quite interesting things in the family EV segment especially for people who didn't think they were quite ready for an EV thanks for watching don't forget to like And subscribe there'll be more videos like this very soon see 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