Fisker might improve manufacturing of the all-electric Ocean SUV in response to sturdy demand for the car.

The automobile producer had supposed on producing 50,000 examples of the Ocean SUV every year. Nevertheless, Henrik Fisker lately introduced that greater than 58,000 reservations and orders for the Ocean have been positioned and that it secured 5,000 orders for the Fisker Ocean One launch version mannequin in simply 30 days after its unveiling in July.

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“The passion we’re seeing worldwide for the Fisker Ocean is nothing in need of humbling,” Henrik Fisker mentioned in a current assertion. “With our companions at Magna, take a look at autos are rolling off the road on the carbon-neutral manufacturing plant in Graz, the place we’re working diligently on increasing manufacturing numbers past the present projection of fifty,000 items per yr. We’re additionally exploring increasing operations to fulfill this rising demand, together with contemplating manufacturing in the USA. And with our disciplined spending, sturdy money place, extraordinary operational flexibility, sturdy relationships with our suppliers, and a diversified, excessive line-of-sight potential income stream for the primary yr, we’re full velocity forward on all fronts.”

Henrik Fisker added that the automobile producer expects to have secured not less than 80,000 reservations for the Ocean earlier than the top of 2022. Manufacturing will kick off on November 17, 2022 at Magna Steyr’s manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria.

The contract producer has already constructed 55 prototypes of the Fisker Ocean and is at the moment within the midst of testing them earlier than manufacturing of buyer automobiles begins. Of those prototypes, two lately touched down at Fisker’s headquarters in Manhattan Seaside, California.

In separate information, Fisker confirmed that it had $851.9 million within the financial institution on the second of Q2, stating that it “continues to ship and execute towards its marketing strategy predicated on a basis of operational excellence and a disciplined and deliberate monetary technique.”