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Fisker is lifeless, so if you happen to personal a Fisker and you want Fisker elements, you’re completely shit out of luck. Until you may observe down the elements you want on eBay from a dismantled automotive, like Wealthy from Wealthy Rebuilds did. A number of months in the past he purchased a bricked Fisker Ocean for simply $10,000 from a dealership that simply completely ran out of fucks to provide. With the car in hand, Wealthy was in a position to get it to reply by charging up the low-voltage battery system, however one thing wouldn’t enable the car to just accept a cost to its high-voltage traction battery.
Wealthy and his crew discovered that the difficulty was truly within the cost port itself. There’s a sensor there that ensures your charging cable is absolutely seated within the port, and that sensor was borked past use. With out that sensor telling the automotive it was secure to cost, it wouldn’t provoke the “handshake” to just accept electrons, even utilizing a easy 110v J1772 cable.
After tearing into the system to determine the way it works, the issue half was uncovered, and a used alternative was sourced. Sadly there aren’t any service manuals or licensed Fisker restore retailers round, you already know, as a result of the corporate’s grand opening was rapidly adopted by its grand closing.
If you happen to’re one of many few hundred individuals on the market who paid seventy thousand American {dollars} for an Ocean, I really feel so unbelievably dangerous for you. Particularly if you happen to don’t have the EV knowhow of somebody like Wealthy Rebuilds. You’re going to run into some difficulty that utterly locks up your each day driver EV and there gained’t be anybody round to repair it for you. “In order that’s it?,” you say “After 5 months of Fisker possession? So lengthy, good luck?” And Henrik Fisker will reply “I don’t recall saying good luck.”
