The air-vents are digitally controlled, via the big touchscreen (you drag the “fan” image to whichever direction you want the air to blow). There were some reports of them not working properly on some of the early-build vehicles, so Fisker replaced them all with an updated assembly.

The air vents are a known issue, they replaced all of them on the early cars built before they switched to a different version. 

That’s really good to know, makes me feel a lot better about dropping $65k on it (after the $7500 tax credit I got grandfathered in on, since I paid the down payment before the law changed last year).

They’ve built (or their contract manufacturer, Magna Steyr has built) over 5,000 of these so far, although only about half of those have been delivered. Magna also builds the Mercedesz G-Class, Jaguar I-PACE, BMW 5 Series, and the Toyota GR Supra. So the build quality is likely better than, say, a Tesla Model Y,…

Exactly. I'm struggling to feel any sympathy for car dealerships. The car I'm in the process of buying right now is direct sale from the manufacturer (an EV) 

I have mixed feelings about having locked in a price on a new EV 15 months ago. At the time, it was about the same price as a Tesla Model Y (but with a longer range), but prices have fallen since then, and now my $69k Fisker Ocean is probably $5k more than the equivalent Model Y. On the other hand, with inflation,…

I went and saw Oppenheimer on Sunday, for $4, and there were way more than 16% additional people at the theater. For a late Sunday afternoon (5:25 pm), there looked to be close to double the normal amount of people at the Cineplex. There were large groups of teenagers, there to see Barbie and blue beetle.

The Z80 processor was also used in the Tandy TRS-80 (sold by radio shack), which is the computer I learned BASIC programming on, in the 7th grade.

That was my first thought as well, I had to look at the function keys on the right and notice it was two columns, and not a single column of wide keys.

Wow, So they had a safety officer who wanted to do at least the bare minimum. And they fired him. Unbelievable.

When this sub first went missing early this week, and I read a little about its construction, and saw it was built using carbon fiber, I told my sons (who were asking me whether they were alive or dead) that the sub probably imploded, and everyone was likely already dead. Carbon fiber has mainly been used in the…

I actually thought Infinity stopped selling cars in US during the pandemic. Learn something new everyday! Maybe they should sell a luxury version of that Nissan EV, the Ariya, with a really nice interior and some extras. Seems like there could be interest for that.

This is very much what I think, and have tried telling a few people. Sometimes, the truth isn't as fantastic or interesting as what people would like to be true.

Start? The tin-foil wing-nut crowd already is sure he's a reptilian.

I wouldn’t say no one - I have a Fisker Ocean One (the launch edition) on order, hopefully taking delivery before the end of August. The 5000 launch edition models are sold out.

“...they have to wait for Lordstown to finish crapping the bed...”

For the price - and the big community you’d join and ease of parts - this looks like a winner to me. Could also be an interesting base to do an EV conversion, if you could fit a drop-in EV motor in there. 

^^This. Tax policy should totally be geared towards what's best for the long-term population as a whole.

>there has to be more than a few feed up and more moderate republicans.

Having ridden in a Yugo, I'd prefer the golf cart really.