The Ocean’s interior has been designed with a focus on that resource-light footprint.
There’s more than 50kg of recycled content in the car, from carpets to seat fabrics made of recaptured sea plastics. Its fascia mouldlings are all unpainted and uncoated, so they’re simpler and quicker to manufacture and easier to recycle. Its textiles avoid complicated stitching and decoration.
You can’t see the door speakers because they’re mounted on the ‘B-side’ of the panel, which reduces manufacturing complexity.
In isolation, it may sound a little like a convenient excuse not to compete with the European brands on perceived quality, but Fisker’s company-wide focus on sustainability seems to run much too deep to be about cost-saving.
Neither does it actually make the Ocean look or feel flimsy or cheaply put together. Sure, there’s a sense of simplicity, and slight plainness, about bits of the cabin design, but given the car’s price positioning, it’s all easily acceptable.
The cabin has a tidy, pared-back look and layout, with a column-mounted shift selector, simple digital instrumentation, and most secondary controls contained within the 17.1in portrait-orientated touchscreen console.
There are separate physical controls for the heating and air-con, though, as well as for the windows and sunroof.
