electric vehicle starter (EV) Fisher unveiled a solid off-road version of the Ocean SUV, as it delayed the launch of the next model and reduced its production target.
This latest news comes as the company deliver the first Ocean One unveiled the model version at the Fisker Center+ facility in Copenhagen, Denmark. It has also now opened other campuses in Munich, Germany.
Deliveries of the Fisker Ocean Force E will certainly begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
It comes with “significant” ground clearance and ramp, 20-inch reinforced wheels wrapped in 33-inch off-road tires, “specialized” dampers, as well as an estimated 405 kW of power.
Fisker notes that all dual-motor four-wheel-drive Ocean models will be able to be equipped with this off-road package.
According to the company’s latest financial results, contract manufacturer Magna Steyr has manufactured 55 engineering, marketed and customer-serviced Ocean models so far this year at their factory in Graz, Austria. .
This is one less than the number of vehicles produced in the fourth quarter of 2022 and also lower than the previous target of 300 vehicles that the company aims to produce in the first quarter of this year.
Fisker is still expecting production to increase and is currently targeting production between 1400 and 1700 Oceans in the second quarter of 2023. By the end of the third quarter of this year, the company aims to reach daily operating capacity. month is 6000.
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pear teasing
Due in part to lower production numbers in the first quarter, Fisker has reduced its projected production target for 2023 from 42,400 units to between 32,000 and 36,000. This all depends if “all partners ship”.
It’s worth noting that Fisker still says they have 65,000 bookings for Ocean. It also claims to have over 8000 reservations for the upcoming Pear.
Talk about Pear, Fisker has delayed the start of production until 2025 as it finalizes its battery partners. Before that, it was expected to go into production in 2024 at Foxconn’s newly acquired factory in Ohio.
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Project teaser Ronin
Although the EV startup didn’t mention anything about Project Ronin In its latest financial results, it said it will introduce “several new models” at Investor Product Day later this year.
Financially, Fisker announced cash and cash equivalents of US$652.5 million (~AU$963 million), excluding value added tax (VAT) of US$22 million (~$32 million) as of 31 March 2023. This is about US$80 million (~AU$118 million) less than at the end of last year.
The loss from operations amounted to US$121.6 million (~AU$180 million), in part due to higher research and development costs in the first quarter of this year. There was also a total net loss of $120.6 million (~AU$178 million).
