I know freelancers who’ve been working on behalf of Fisker for weeks on end facilitating test drive events. I hope they’ve already been paid… I did note that talks with Nissan had fallen through, so I wonder if anyone else will snap up the intellectual property of the company.

Probably Nissan! It's the old trick of finding out what you want about a company then deciding it is cheaper to buy what you want from the administrators than the shareholders.

Auto express article end-February - New Fisker Ocean 2024 review: a serious Tesla Model Y rival | Auto Express.

The impression is of "work in progress" rather than a finished vehicle ready for market.

Nice looking but whether it would ever be a contender - price, quality, performance - is debatable. History is littered with wannabee car makers who fail due to lack of funding, ability or existing competition..

Tesla is probably a rare exception - they had a very clear strategy for what was a new EV market, including Tesla specific charging arrangements, and limited competition on launch.

They have certainly done well...think a lot of other companies have come in thinking they can do the same and found it to be a lot harder and tougher...at the end of the day they are still just cars just with a electric motor rather than an ICE powering it and all the larger companies know how to make the cars already so not surprising really that smaller companies with bid ideas are starting to falter a bit now.

It's not just newbies that are losing money on EVs .

VW Ford & GM are chalking up $Billions on development costs and often losing money on the ones they are selling.

But making EVs will become more profitable as battery costs come down, which they have done and are likely to continue to do. Manufacturers won't necessarily reduce the retail price of EVs, so more margin for manufacturers. It will still be a win situation for customers too because if batteries become cheaper, they should also be cheaper to replace if you're unfortunate enough to need to do that.