Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
Summary
The article recounts Fisker's 2024 bankruptcy and how Ocean owners formed a volunteer-driven, open-source ecosystem to keep their cars alive. It highlights reverse-engineering, CAN bus mapping, and community-led tooling (Home Assistant integration, CAN files) that repurposed orphaned hardware, and discusses policy ideas like software escrow to prevent similar fallout.