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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has open asecondinvestigation into EV startupFisker’sOcean SUV , after the agency received four complaints about the fomite rolling out accidentally , including one wound .
The company tells TechCrunch it is “ fully cooperating ” with the guard way .
The new probe come justone monthafter NHTSA ’s Office of Defects Investigation began enquire complaint of sudden red ink of brake performance . Fisker claims that problem was resolved with a software update that went out to fomite in December .
Fisker has had problem with the Ocean since it first started delivering the SUV last year . possessor have complained to the company for calendar month about the SUV short losing power , problems getting in and out of the vehicle , trouble shifting into gear and the SUV ’s cowl flying up , TechCrunchrevealedlast hebdomad .
The four complaints NHTSA source draw scenario where the owner had trouble pitch into or out of car park . One owner in Pennsylvania claims that their Ocean sometimes shifts into electroneutral alternatively of park , causing the SUV to wheel backwards . On one social occasion in December , this proprietor say they exited the SUV when it started to roll up away and the exposed driver ’s side door knocked them to the ground . The owner says they were capable to “ get up , pass over in the railcar , and stop it before it hit another auto . ”
NHTSA ’s ODI can open four levels of an investigating : Defect Petition , Preliminary Evaluation , Recall Query and Engineering Analysis . Similar to the braking investigation , this investigation into the rollaway ailment is classified as a preliminary evaluation , which the bureau pronounce it tries to complete within eight month . NHTSA says the end of the preliminary evaluation is to “ determine the setting and severeness of the possible problem and to amply assess the potential refuge - related issues . ”
