Electric car owners are left up to £70,000 out of pocket with warnings vehicles could be undriveable as firm goes bankrupt By FRANKIE ELLIOTT Published: 09:54, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 10:06, 18 November 2024 e-mail 13 View comments Electric car owners face the prospect of being left with useless and unfixable vehicles after a manufacturing firm announced it had gone bankrupt. More than 200 owners of vehicles made by Fisker could find themselves £70,000 out of pocket - after the Californian-based company declared it had gone bust in June. A number of drivers say their cars have been plagued with a number of issues - including brake failure, rapid battery draining and the random opening of windows when parked.
But after they reported the issues to Fisker, they found their UK's representatives to be less and less responsive as the company's financial situation worsened. One owner told The Telegraph he 'feared for his life' after his Fisker Ocean Extreme, which was advertised as being able to travel up to 440 miles on a single charge, coasted into the middle of a junction after his brakes failed to engage. But when Kevin Mulligan attempted to get his car's faults fixed, including the fact it could only travel half the distance he was told it could on one charge, he faced a number of challenges.
He explained: 'I was talking to one sales guy and then he'd be made redundant. Then I'd be passed to another guy, who put me in touch with the engineer – and then he'd be made redu.