No big deal: Earthroamer went into Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy in 2009 and then reemerged like Houdini after some quick restructuring. The only minor issue was that owners up to that time lost their Earthroamer warranty, beyond that, they started up like nothing ever happened and have been successful ever since.
Where there's a market, there's a way ahead. Fisker, or at the very least just some of its IP if it's novel enough, will probably reemerge if & when EV's become the norm or American drivers en masse start really wanting EV's because they believe they're just better than the ICE alternatives. One perspective is that EV's are the future, the clear choice of the enlightened, they are clean and will help save the environment from human-caused warming/cooling/extreme/etc. weather and climate. No one likes pollution and breathing exhaust. I don't think anyone likes having a giant lithium/rare earth mine next door either, but quite easy to forget about if it's in Africa being run by the Chinese government. Another side says EV's aren't really that clean and, despite a lot of talk and optimism about solar and wind (backed up by massive buildings full of batteries for those times when mother nature isn't being generous) potential, neither are any of the existing large-scale sources of electricity, so EV's environmental claims are something of a shell game and folks should stick with ICE and deal with the known evils of burnt petroleum exhaust. There are many more perspectives and factors of course, like getting rid of hydroelectric power to save salmon, nuclear power 2.0, EV range-longevity-resale ?'s trifecta, etc. History alone will show if the best course was taken. FWIW if I was a large corporation or government taking the long-term/strategic view, I'd probably let the market decide a good bit of this and not go too far down the path of forcing EV's and EV-specific infrastructure. I definitely wouldn't want to be looking at my shareholders or constituency (unless of course it's a Zoom meeting and I have the Florida beach background and no one really knows where...or whether...I really exist) explaining why I was using their money to put charging stations (or gas stations for that matter) in austere, often pristine locations in order to support small groups of recreational motorists leaving tire tracks, fire pits and the odd beer can in the wilds. But I've got no problem if someone has the money and wherewithal to add a few Tesla chargers at a Dalton Hwy gas station so an intrepid EV driver can make it up to Deadhorse to ogle the oilfields, probably not see a polar bear/caribou herd, and then drop a packraft into the Sagavanirktok for a quick paddle. On some level we all consider whether we are "murdering the impossible" and destroying every sense of adventure when we stick more people, more kit and more infrastructure in our finite hinterland. For some this is when you can see another tent or other bright piece of petroleum-based fabric on the icy ridge of a neighboring peak, for others this is when you pull up to the RV park in your custom Sprinter and the campsite is packed with Prevost/etc. giants and the swimming pool is full of screaming kids...there is some magic in the wide uncrowded empty spaces and a little used two-track winding through it.
The solution for transportation / vehicles is human genius, ingenuity and work ethic. ICE quickly displaced the horse and no doubt some inventor(s) at some point, hopefully soon, will come up with something better than EV (or petroleum ICE). Until then maybe most prudent to prioritize the sort of things that allow for more genius and ingenuity: peace/national security, rule of law, freedom, wealth, high educational standards and PLENTY of cheap energy (USA not really thriving in some of these areas, but maybe look at who is and how they're doing it) to enable all of those things so those inventors can keep inventing. (Then again, some folks will say some of the very best inventions emerge during times of suffering, crisis, war, etc. but maybe these are the types of folks who like to sit around worrying). If EV works for you, great. If it works for the masses and the numbers make financial sense, Fisker'll be back. Hopefully they'll honor warranties on the vehicles they've sold.
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