It’s a beautiful car, as well it should be at that price. I won’t celebrate a test failure, will note that CR isn’t the most pro-car publication in the world and is in fact rather dour, and that there is nothing controversial at all about a hybrid gas-electric system. They’ve worked well for going on a decade and do deliver on the promise of improved fuel economy.
I hope Fisker recovers from this and goes on to a grand, successful future.
I WANT electric vehicles or hybrids to succeed. It IS true, that we can’t go on like this forever. 150 years from now, people will be driving electric vehicles powered from fusion or thorium based power plants or super-efficient solar power systems, or they will be walking and foraging from area to area. The RIGHT way for the government to promote this is by putting money into basic research and science, not in funding manufacturing plants for cronies that produce products that just don’t work very well.
It’s annoying that the EPA won’t let the best possible hybrid system, diesel-electric (ask people who build and use locomotives), operate here. They do in Europe.