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Fisker Owners See $70,000 EV as ‘the Worst Financial Decision I Ever Made’

  • Bankruptcy has cast uncertainty on the automaker’s future
  • Customer issues are growing as repair requests go unanswered
Henrik Fisker introduces the hatchback Pear during the “Product Vision Day” in 2023.Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
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Hope is waning for owners of Fisker Inc.’s beleaguered electric SUVs. With the company mired in bankruptcy, customers say it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get any help fixing their glitchy or otherwise problematic cars.

One Fisker owner in the Cincinnati area had a dozen unresolved service tickets for his model. Another in Colorado can’t find a local repair shop to fix a crack snaking across his SUV’s solar roof. And a Texas-based customer has a loaner from the company that she has no idea how to return.