• Over 12,500 Fisker Ocean house owners have a brand new problem
• The Ocean’s exterior door handles may stick and fail to open
• Fisker has filed for chapter

Fisker is recalling 12,523 Ocean electrical SUVs globally due to a difficulty that might trigger exterior door handles to stay and fail to open, the corporate introduced Friday.

The recall encompasses 8,204 automobiles within the U.S., 513 in Canada, and three,806 in Europe, based on an organization press launch. Within the U.S., Oceans have been delivered as each 2023 and 2024 fashions. Fisker estimates that 2.5% of automobiles may have the defect, which the corporate attributes to a “malfunctioning mechanism.”

Fisker Ocean

Fisker will examine all 4 exterior door handles on affected automobiles with a “specialised drive checking software” supplied by the provider of the door handles, and can substitute them if needed, freed from cost.

Proprietor letters are anticipated to be mailed August 30. House owners may contact Fisker at 1-844-347-5371 and reference recall quantity TSB55062401, or contact the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) at 1-888-327-4236. The NHTSA’s reference quantity for this recall is 24V466000.

2023 Fisker Ocean

That is the third recall of the Ocean on this month alone, and the NHTSA has 4 open investigations into points associated to the automobiles, based on Reuters. Fisker, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, contracted meeting and a few improvement work to Magna, which constructed the Ocean on the identical Austrian manufacturing unit the place the Jaguar I-Tempo is assembled.

Ocean manufacturing was gradual to ramp up, however as soon as it did, gross sales have been even slower. Left with a glut of undelivered EVs, Fisker paused manufacturing in March because it sought to attract down stock and search extra funding. Across the identical time, Fisker slashed prices by up to $24,000 whereas, with issues about high quality points already creeping in, Tesla started freezing Oceans out as trade-ins.