--- title: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car... description: After Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, roughly 11,000 Fisker Ocean owners faced the prospect of their $40,000–$70,000 EVs becoming... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fisker-went-bankrupt-and-owners-built-open-source-car-company-from-the-ashes-nsir6lbgv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes | daily.dev og:description: After Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, roughly 11,000 Fisker Ocean owners faced the prospect of their $40,000–$70,000 EVs becoming... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fisker-went-bankrupt-and-owners-built-open-source-car-company-from-the-ashes-nsir6lbgv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nsIr6lBGV.png og:image:alt: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary After Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, roughly 11,000 Fisker Ocean owners faced the prospect of their $40,000–$70,000 EVs becoming inoperable as cloud-dependent software systems went dark. In response, owners formed the Fisker Owners Association (FOA), a 4,000-member nonprofit that reverse-engineered proprietary firmware, mapped CAN bus networks, published open-source tools on GitHub, organized bulk parts purchases, and launched mobile repair programs in Europe. Technical highlights include a Home Assistant integration exposing the car's cloud API, published CAN bus DBC files, and community guides for sniffing CAN traffic and decoding diagnostic trouble codes. A $2.5 million deal with American Lease to preserve cloud services collapsed over a refusal to provide itemized invoices, cutting remote connectivity for owners. The story raises broader questions about software escrow mandates, right-to-repair legislation, and open-source requirements for cloud-dependent vehicles, as more EV startups face potential bankruptcy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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