OK, now the real road test is about to begin! Palm Springs to Vegas on a single charge! We've driven to Las Vegas plenty of times in the Polestar. The Polestar 2 was advertised at 230 miles when I bought it. But with Vegas being 270 miles, there was no...
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Palm Springs to Orange County to Compton and back home!
My first occasion for a long distance drive is here! It turns out that Newport Fisker forgot to install one of the floor mats. I thought that was a perfect excuse to get the car out on the road and drive from Palm Springs back to Costa Mesa, 102 mile drive. At...
My Fisker Ocean One: First Day Impressions
My Fisker Ocean One is delivered. And deliver, it does! Hip hip hooray! My Fisker was delivered today after a debacle with my Polestar. Ironically, just last night I was watching several videos, and came across a video by MTN Ranger explaining what happens when your battery dies. He was...
With Fisker no more, how do I find my dream car?
As my dream for getting a Fisker starts to fade, I started test driving other cars. A Honda prologue. Then a Lexus RX 350h. Volvo XC60. All were nice cars but, something was missing. Something just didn't fit the bill, and to be honest, at the time I didn't know...
With the company out of business, how do I buy a Fisker?
As the company implodes, news of a saving grace emerges It started off like so many other IPOs, a big bang at first and then settling down, where the stock opened at $15 a share, then climbed up to $18 at one point. Then it begins settling back down to...
Worse Car Ever? Damn, what’s wrong with this Fisker?
In the automotive industry, "delivery" has long been the ultimate metric of success. If you can build a complex machine at scale and get it into a customer's driveway, you’ve won. Or so we thought. The Fisker Ocean One achieved what many considered impossible: it launched largely on time, bypassing...
GROUNDBREAKING WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION
Like many older U.S. cities, our nation’s capital infrastructure dates back to the early 1800s and their storm and wastewater treatment system is no longer able to accommodate heavy rain events, causing overflows of untreated waste into nearby rivers and streams. Architus’s work was recently featured in Point of Beginning...
MODERN EXTENSION TO BRICK HOUSE
The $2.5 million two-story 4,000-square-foot addition to the existing hospital will provide expanded Interventional Radiology services on the second floor with a new interventional imaging room as well as associated control, patient holding, exam, storage and system electronics spaces. Work also includes the renovation of 700 square feet of existing...
FITTING A SQUARE BUILDING
Four-hundred women from construction companies around the country gathered for this incredible two-day event in San Francisco, California.The main theme of the conference was the importance of diversity and inclusion to a company’s success. Event speakers focused on the financial power of diversity and how research demonstrates that companies with...
Holiday shopping and a Fisker Ocean One Test Drive
My first test drive was at a Fisker popup, and boy did it pop! By December 2023, Fisker had opened their first Los Angeles pop up showroom, at The Grove. This is a trend amongst new cars that don't have a traditional dealership network, they would open a storefront in...