Fisker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy has hit a major snag, as the company buying the startup's remaining fleet of electric SUVs says it might not complete the

The buyer, a New York-area leasing company called American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to each SUV to a new server not owned by the bankrupt EV startup. Since American Lease needs that information to operate the vehicles after Fisker is dissolved, the leasing company has filed an emergency objection to the startup’s liquidation plan.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 months ago

    My other guess was that they’ve hard-coded an IP address in their firmware and they’ve already sold off the IP range.

    Or they fired all the technical staff and no longer have anyone left that “does the computers” (as my parents say about my job as a software engineer)

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 months ago

      I suspect something like the first one, where those cars will call home to a certain IP address, and the fact that the company might not exist one day never crossed anyone’s mind.