Fēnix Power

28 May

May Updates from CEO

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News, Messages from the Founder, News, Socialcovid-19, fixed storage, founder message, Installs

The home-stretch in a marathon is always difficult. You shift your strategy from keeping pace to focusing on every stride you make that gets you to that finish line. And after keeping pace for so long, new obstacles can start to feel like impossible mountains to climb. For Fēnix and our home-stretch to get to our long-overdue installations, we've had some surprise mountains rise up between us and the finish line. Covid-19 has thrown us some really challenging curve balls. The strain of the delays has taken a toll on our team, we lost our COO, and had to trim…

10 May

Happy Mothers Day!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News, News

Happy Mother's day to any Fēnix moms! In honor of Mother's Day, we've decided to extend our installation discount one more week until May 17th, while we start reaching out to call our first customers to get installs scheduled. Give the Mom in your world the gift of not having to worry about her EVs battery aging anymore? And rather than create a new discount code for the Moms, instead we thought it would be a great opportunity to plug Electric Cars are for Girls one more time! So for today, it's Electric Cars are for Moms instead! Give Lynne…

05 May

Home/Fixed storage products are shipping!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News

We had planned on shipping our fixed storage batteries back in February but the Coronavirus pandemic forced our suppliers to put most of their operations on hold. However, now that the Covid-19 restrictions are easing, our suppliers are also now getting back to work, and so can we! All of our home/fixed storage products are ready to ship TODAY! While our EV installs are getting closer, and we're meeting with current and prospective installers every day getting our first markets ready for that launch, there's no wait for putting batteries to use immediately in your home, business, or even in…

29 Apr

John’s AMA is on YouTube!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News

A bit delayed, but for good reasons! We had intended to publish this on Sunday, but our plans changed this week when we found out that New Zealand had lifted its restrictions on our partner business EVs Enhanced! This change prompted a revision of John's response with updated information about how we're going to get installations started in the next couple of weeks! John's AMA on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sdXa0TKWxs John covers a wide variety of topics in his AMA answers video, including battery technology in the future Fēnix Power battery packs, how our certified Nissan battery pack program will work with…

27 Apr

New Zealand’s Alert Level 3!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News, Messages from the Founder

This isn't exactly Fēnix Power's own news, but in this global economy and the global Covid-19 pandemic, progress made on one side of our big blue marble has real impacts on the other side! One of the delays that we at Fēnix have been trying to work around, is that a business partner of ours, EVs Enhanced, an EV business out of Christchurch, New Zealand, has been in something of a hibernation mode during the pandemic. New Zealand placed restrictions on shipping such that only necessary items could be shipped, effectively placing EVs Enhanced on pause indefinitely. EVs Enhanced starts…

25 Apr

Questions today, Answers soon!

By Fēnix PowerMessages from the Founder, Social

Today I'm going through and compiling all of the questions from the Facebook AMA thread as well as the several dozen I received in response to my AMA email announcement in preparation for the AMA/Q&A video response for everyone. I hope to have the video completed and published tomorrow, we've been working on a few announcements that will also be included in the video, including when to expect our fixed-storage products to become available, and how soon Leaf installs will begin! We've decided to skip trying this as a live event this time, we found many of our customers, fans…

22 Apr

BigBattery is fighting Covid!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News

Lately, I spend most of my days working on getting Fēnix Power through the various delays and impacts of Covid-19, part of my work today was discussing this with our supplier BigBattery. Today I had a great conversation with their CEO, Eric Lundgren, and learned more about the work they are doing during this pandemic, and they are truly doing some amazing work! So today, rather than posting about progress here at Fēnix, I want to take a moment to highlight the amazing work that Eric and his team have been doing. Triage Powered by BigBattery and Recycled Nissan Modules…

18 Apr

AMA with John Bysinger

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News

Some of our more internet-savvy followers may recognize the AMA or Ask Me Anything format popularized by Reddit, which is essentially a moderated Q&A session. Often on Reddit they enlist a celebrity or high-profile figure of some kind to open themselves up for a Q&A session. With all that is going on with Fēnix, recent delays related to Covid-19, supplier and funding challenges, and simply the many questions people have about our planned products and service, we have decided we should host our own AMA! We have created a post in our Facebook Customer Forum which will serve as the…

17 Apr

650 Reservations!

By Fēnix PowerFēnix News

As we wait for all of the Covid-19 complications to pass, we're humbled that deposits continue despite all of the lockdowns. While we know there are literally thousands of Leafs out there that could potentially be Fēnix customers, 650 is still an amazing number. We're also still working through a backlog of questions and requests from our customers via email and other methods, bear with us, we'll get to each and every one of you. In the meantime, we hope all of you are safe and sound during this pandemic, please exercise the greatest care, we're hoping we all get…

08 Apr

Covid, SBA and PPP Stimulus

By Fēnix PowerMessages from the Founder, Social

Hello Fēnix Power customers and fans, I know many of you are nervous about how this lockdown and virus economic shift will impact Fēnix Power and wondering if we'll make it through. I wanted to share that I've been working with our executive team, attorneys and accountant to evaluate all of the options available to us from the recently passed Payroll Protection Program in the CARES stimulus act. We've found two programs that we do qualify for, one through the Small Business Administration, and the PPP program itself through our business banking institution. We've submitted applications to both and are…