Sorry guys, I decided to revisit these forums after I got chased out by all the deluded Fisker lovers out there who didn't want to see that I was trying to raise important issues about the Fisker hoping to get them to fix things and change expectations.
I called it 5 months ago that Fisker would go bankrupt and boy were a lot of people upset and I asked that the customer satisfaction poll be put up on the site. Well it looks like I'm right and I truly hope that they restructure rather than go bankrupt but in a way, it could mean a higher resale value if you keep your car for a few years.
I think a lot of people who are financially distressed will dump their cars for cheap but once that initial sell off is done, in a few years I can see the Fisker being a collector car since so few were made so make sure you store your car nicely!
I also heard that the Fisker used the old Saturn engines as they bought a bunch of them off of GM when they closed the line so it's not like people won't know how to fix them. I was told that my dealership will continue to have people available to work on them but if the warranty isn't valid, they'll just charge their hourly rate. Definitely not the end of the world...
I also think that batteries are replaceable and in a few years we could be in a situation where we could buy a new battery and someone will figure a way to swap them into the Fisker. In fact, I predict the batteries will not only have more range but will be lighter and smaller and they can easily be retrofitted into the Karma.
Anyways, I won't bother coming back to the site as I will likely hear a lot more bashing about how I'm an idiot and don't know what I am talking about. I stand by my original posts about mismanaging expectations and that the range issues are real.
Oh, by the way, after a lot of experimentation, I found the source of the energy leak. I was getting 50% battery capacity in the winter and I isolated it to the heater. The AC and fan had nothing to do with it, nor the seat warmers. The heater was taking 7kw!!! That's huge... if I drove in the winter with a blanket over my legs, I was able to get 70% battery capacity and in the warmer weather i was getting up to 80%. I know have a graph of variables including temp, weight, heater, seat warmer, fan, ac etc. as individual variables and how they affect range.
Anyways, best of luck to all of you... perhaps we'll see each other at a collector's event with our Fiskers lined up beside the 1967 Mustangs
I called it 5 months ago that Fisker would go bankrupt and boy were a lot of people upset and I asked that the customer satisfaction poll be put up on the site. Well it looks like I'm right and I truly hope that they restructure rather than go bankrupt but in a way, it could mean a higher resale value if you keep your car for a few years.
I think a lot of people who are financially distressed will dump their cars for cheap but once that initial sell off is done, in a few years I can see the Fisker being a collector car since so few were made so make sure you store your car nicely!
I also heard that the Fisker used the old Saturn engines as they bought a bunch of them off of GM when they closed the line so it's not like people won't know how to fix them. I was told that my dealership will continue to have people available to work on them but if the warranty isn't valid, they'll just charge their hourly rate. Definitely not the end of the world...
I also think that batteries are replaceable and in a few years we could be in a situation where we could buy a new battery and someone will figure a way to swap them into the Fisker. In fact, I predict the batteries will not only have more range but will be lighter and smaller and they can easily be retrofitted into the Karma.
Anyways, I won't bother coming back to the site as I will likely hear a lot more bashing about how I'm an idiot and don't know what I am talking about. I stand by my original posts about mismanaging expectations and that the range issues are real.
Oh, by the way, after a lot of experimentation, I found the source of the energy leak. I was getting 50% battery capacity in the winter and I isolated it to the heater. The AC and fan had nothing to do with it, nor the seat warmers. The heater was taking 7kw!!! That's huge... if I drove in the winter with a blanket over my legs, I was able to get 70% battery capacity and in the warmer weather i was getting up to 80%. I know have a graph of variables including temp, weight, heater, seat warmer, fan, ac etc. as individual variables and how they affect range.
Anyways, best of luck to all of you... perhaps we'll see each other at a collector's event with our Fiskers lined up beside the 1967 Mustangs