The Fisker Emotion Is The Achingly Pretty EV With 24-Inch Wheels

It has been a long time coming, but the Emotion is finally here with a driving range of over 400 miles and all of the good looks
The Fisker Emotion Is The Achingly Pretty EV With 24-Inch Wheels

The Fisker Emotion has finally been revealed in full, and it is a pretty little thing, isn’t it? After what seems like an eternity in gestation, the butterfly-doored beauty queen has made quite the entrance at this year’s CES.

Henrik Fisker knows how to make a car look good, having had a hand in prior Aston Martin projects and the BMW Z8. That style helps the Emotion disguise its genuinely massive body. It’s a titanic five metres long; the same as a Range Rover. At 1.4 metres high it’s a little lower than a Volkswagen Golf but looks suitably coupe-ish thanks to the length-heavy proportions and Death Stars that pass for wheels. Seriously, they’re 24 inches across. “That’s no moon…” etc.

The Fisker Emotion Is The Achingly Pretty EV With 24-Inch Wheels

At the four-seat electric sports GT’s heart is an as-yet unconfirmed number of motors, logically between two and four but most likely three. They are collectively good for 780bhp, a 0-60mph time of under three seconds and a top speed of 161mph. We’re eager for news of whether it uses a gearbox to achieve that speed.

Backing-up the power is a large battery that Fisker says should be good for over 400 miles. It’s a conventional type, for now, but joining the Emotion on the brand’s CES stand was a new type of battery; a solid-state unit that Fisker says could bring about driving ranges of over 500 miles per charge, and charging times as fast as one minute.

The Fisker Emotion Is The Achingly Pretty EV With 24-Inch Wheels

Okay, so we don’t quite believe that. To pump that much current into a battery that quickly you’d need a cable as thick as your leg. Not exactly practical, and likely to shaft electricity grids in nanoseconds. This SuperBattery tech is said to be pencilled in for smartphones as soon as this year before making it to cars in 2020.

Speaking of phones, you operate the flush door handles with yours, via a Fisker app. Hopefully there’s a mechanical failsafe built-in in case your battery goes dead or you lose your phone.

The Fisker Emotion Is The Achingly Pretty EV With 24-Inch Wheels

If you thought we were going to get through this whole article without mentioning automation, we’re going to have to disappoint you. Hard. There’s a series of cutting-edge LiDAR sensors around which the car has been built. They monitor a spectrum of variables on the road and can, apparently, deliver ‘up to’ level four autonomy. Ask Alex what that’s like.

Smaller news comes with a choice of either the standard two-seat ‘first class’ or an optional three-seat rear layout. A giant 27-inch curved TV screen is another option. Don’t expect to see too many, but with looks like this we don’t expect you’ll miss it if one crosses your path.

Comments

Steve Buscemi

It looks weirdly cheap with those wheels, like a bad kit car…

01/09/2018 - 15:44 |
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Ikr

01/09/2018 - 16:05 |
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what’s the point 0f 24 inch wheels anyway? is there some kind of advantage I don’t see?

01/09/2018 - 21:03 |
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Anonymous

I think Aston might have something to say about the rear styling…

01/09/2018 - 15:46 |
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GTRTURTLE 🔰 🐢(Oo \ S K Y L I N E / oO) (Koen

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

COUGH Tesla body COUGH

01/09/2018 - 15:53 |
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Sammy Loehnis

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beat me to it

01/09/2018 - 23:19 |
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Elias Gilkey (Wagon Squad) (Manual Squad) (Classics squad)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Uhhhhh yeah what the hell? That’s a complete copy and paste of the new Vantage’s rear, and I don’t think that Henrik Fisker eve designed the new Vantage (I could be wrong on that).

01/10/2018 - 00:43 |
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Anonymous

achingly pretty? I think it looks alright

01/09/2018 - 15:49 |
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ATOGI_28

Too bad the front is ugly

01/09/2018 - 15:58 |
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Georg Blink - RevolutionArts

In reply to by ATOGI_28

Just looked it up, it’s hideous :D

01/09/2018 - 16:05 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

Maybe it’s me, but I still prefer the Karma

01/09/2018 - 15:58 |
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Surf > Karma. But maybe it’s me!

01/09/2018 - 16:01 |
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Jakob

The Fiskers always looked very… erm… distinct, but this one is a bit too flamboyant for my taste. It looks a lot smaller than it actually is, which can be a good thing, depending on how it’s done, but it can also quickly make the car seem extremely ostentatious.

But why does every other electric car now has to have some kind of gimmicky unlock system? It’s not like anybody ever said “I have to unlock this car with an actual key, how obsolete”.

01/09/2018 - 16:03 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Jakob

That’s a fair point, but everyone is trying to find a way to seem more advanced by trying to make everything the car equivalent of an iPhone X. Sure it’s advanced, but that doesn’t make it good (At least in my eyes).

01/09/2018 - 21:44 |
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Joel Brennan

“Achingly Pretty” doesn’t describe a single panel of this car. It is achingly awful. It looks like it was stung by a bee or something and those rear doors are so stupid

01/09/2018 - 16:06 |
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You are visibly aching tho. So they were at least 50% correct

01/09/2018 - 18:41 |
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Anonymous
01/09/2018 - 16:27 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

If you’re gonna steal, you may as well steal from the best.

01/09/2018 - 21:39 |
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TheMindGarage

One minute to charge?!? I’m not sure if that’s physically possible. If this is a 100kWh battery (given the range figure this is probably quite a conservative estimate), you’d need to deliver 6MW. That’s over 10,000 amps assuming specs are similar to Tesla’s.

Quite honestly I don’t see why everyone these days is claiming such quick charging times. 10 minutes would still be an achievement and wouldn’t hurt progress on long road trips because you’ll need those 10 minutes for a toilet/sanity break anyway.

01/09/2018 - 16:53 |
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Andrew G.

Its like a car a 5 year old would draw, with oversized wheels…

01/09/2018 - 16:59 |
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