Driving a Fisker Ocean in 2025 is a dangerous proposition. When the automobiles have been new, they have been hideously unreliable from the manufacturing facility. Now, Fisker has gone away and, for probably the most half, house owners are on their very own in relation to repairs and upkeep. Due to that, you’d assume they’d attempt to actually maintain their new-ish Oceans. Effectively, not this man.
One driver is placing their Ocean by way of probably the most grueling take a look at possible: utilizing it as a New York Metropolis ride-share automobile. Being a taxi in New York Metropolis is likely one of the hardest lives a automobile can have. That’s why they’re normally reserved for tanks just like the Ford Crown Victoria, Toyota Camry and Rav4. These choices merely weren’t ok for this driver, although: a person who needed a fragile luxurious electrical crossover from a now-defunct automaker. It’s simply sensible.
If I needed to guess, nearly no person who will get a trip from this Ocean has any thought of how particular of a automobile it’s, however I do know, and that’s why I flipped my shit once I noticed it. New York Metropolis is nice as a result of you’ll be able to inform what automobiles are ride-share/taxis and what automobiles are for personal use. All you’ve received to do is search for the T firstly of the license and the C on the finish. It’s a lifeless giveaway.
Anyway, a correctly working Fisker Ocean in all probability isn’t a horrible ride-share automobile. I imply, Fisker says it has about 39.8 inches of legroom and 39.5 inches of headroom out again. That’s greater than sufficient for 3 adults. It additionally has a tick beneath 17 cubic ft of cargo room behind the second row, which is nice sufficient for airport baggage. It’s even received a reasonably respectable vary if Fisker is to be believed. The “One” mannequin is meant to rise up to 360 miles of vary from its 106.5 kWh battery pack. That’s not too shabby. Hell, it even has sufficient energy from its two motors (564 horsepower and 543 lb-ft of torque) to buzz across the metropolis with ease. Too dangerous it’s going to interrupt or lock you out of the automobile totally earlier than you get an opportunity to really choose anybody up.
Nonetheless, I commend this particular person for utilizing an Ocean as a ride-share automobile in New York Metropolis. It received’t be lengthy earlier than these automobiles are simply relics of the previous – a monument of Henrik Fisker’s second failed automobile firm – so we’ve received to get pleasure from them each time we see them.
