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Fisker promised a roof that charges your car while it sits in the parking lot, and a center screen that physically spins to suit your mood. Then the company went bankrupt. A 2023 Fisker Ocean Extreme with both features, and just 3,200 miles on the odometer, is live on Cars & Bids, where bidding stood at $4,100 as of Monday morning. The auction ends Friday, October 30, at 2:45 PM EDT.
The price is not the story. The hardware is: a solar-cell roof and a motorized 17.1-inch display that most automakers would never have dared to put in a production SUV, now orphaned by the company that built it.
What Is Actually Being Sold
This Ocean Extreme is finished in Mariana with a Black Abyss Plus interior. According to the listing, it has been registered in California since new and comes with a clean Carfax report. It uses the Hyper Range battery pack, which the listing says is a 113-kilowatt-hour unit good for up to 564 horsepower with Boost Mode engaged and an EPA-rated range of up to 360 miles.
The detail that matters most for this story is the paperwork. The seller says the Monroney label is in the photo gallery, and the listing states that the notable factory equipment includes the Hyper Range battery, 22-inch wheels, a photovoltaic solar roof and a 17.1-inch rotating central screen. The seller also lists California Mode and heated front and rear seats. The modifications are small: an “OCEAN” hood light, wheel spacers, a hood strut kit, a telematics box reset switch and longer hood bolts.
A Roof That Makes Miles
Fisker called it SolarSky. The panoramic glass roof has solar panels built into it, and the company pitched it as a way to add free miles just by parking outside. Fisker’s figure was roughly 1,500 miles a year in ideal sunshine, although some early coverage of the Ocean repeated a more generous number of up to 2,000. Either way, it was a long way from replacing a wall charger, but it was a real idea in a segment that mostly shipped bigger screens and called it innovation.
On the Ocean, SolarSky was tied to the top trim. KBB’s breakdown of the lineup lists the solar roof as standard on the Extreme and on the limited Ocean One, which carried the same equipment. The Extreme started at $68,999 before destination, so this was the version you ordered if you wanted the full Fisker pitch.
A Screen That Turns
The second headline feature is the 17.1-inch center display. It rotates between a vertical orientation Fisker called Control mode and a horizontal one called Hollywood mode. The idea was landscape for video, upright for navigation and the controls. It is the sort of gesture that looks gimmicky in a press photo, but it is a physical moving part that almost no other production car has tried.
California Mode is the third piece. With the Extreme’s SolarSky roof, it lowers all of the windows, including the rear glass, and slides the roof back so the SUV drives like a pseudo-convertible. It is a quirk, but it explains why the Ocean felt less like a Tesla rival and more like a design exercise from a company that used to be run by a car designer.
Why It Disappeared
Henrik Fisker came to this with real credentials. He is the designer behind cars like the BMW Z8, and his earlier company produced the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma, which Motorious has looked at before. That company went through Chapter 11 in 2013.
The Ocean followed a similar arc. Production began in November 2022 at a Magna facility in Graz, Austria. According to Fortune’s reporting on the bankruptcy, Fisker built 10,193 Oceans in 2023 but delivered only 4,929, as software problems slowed production and promised updates arrived slowly. The company filed for Chapter 11 on June 17, 2024, and the listing notes that production ended that year.
That is why the roof and the rotating screen stayed rare. They were not discontinued because buyers rejected them. They vanished because the company that sold them ran out of runway, leaving a few thousand owners with cars full of features no other manufacturer offers.
Not the First Forgotten Gadget
Automotive history is full of ambitious options that outlived their makers or their moment. Earlier this month Motorious covered the three-lever Lightning Rods shifter on a 1984 Hurst/Olds, and the 1950s Oldsmobile gadget known as the Autronic Eye is another example of a feature that arrived with big promises. The Ocean belongs in that company, with one difference: you can still plug it in.
What to Know Before Bidding
As with any orphaned EV, the open questions are practical ones: how the software behaves, how service will work, and how the rotating screen and solar roof age. The listing and the Monroney label in the gallery are the places to start, and the comments section is where past owners tend to weigh in. With about four days left, this is one to watch for the technology alone.
