Fisker Is Dead, But The Patents Just Keep On Coming

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The last vestiges of Fisker are slowly disappearing. The company went bankrupt in the summer of last year after a frantic few months trying to find money to keep it alive. Wildly, only a year before, the company was previewing three new models, the budget Pear, the Ronin supercar, and the Alaska pickup truck. Following the closure, customers have been left looking for ways to deal with a lack of parts support and brutal depreciation. Now, the website for the former automaker doesn't really come up in search results anymore, except in a link to the Wikipedia entry on the brand. In light of all this, it's grimly amusing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office finally granted the patent for the Alaska's design.

Fisker Alaska patent front three-quarter

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office / Fisker

A Look At The Future That Wasn't

Yes, as of September 2, 2025, the now defunct Fisker has a patent on the design for the Alaska pickup. The patent drawings seem to be identical to the concept the company showed. It more or less looked like an Ocean with a bed, a taller, more blunt front end, and some prominent fender flares. In the patent, we can make out funky patterns embedded in the truck bed.

Fisker Alaska patent above

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office / Fisker

Going off of the concept, the Alaska would've been roughly the size of the Ford Maverick. Fisker showed off interesting features such as a drop-down opening from the bed to the cabin, similar the Midgate used on GM electric pickup trucks. The design also seemed to be fairly finished, even including a complete interior. Fisker was promising solid performance, too, with a choice of battery packs (75 or 113 kWh) and powertrains capable of a 60-mph sprint between 7.2 and 3.9 seconds.

Despite the seeming completeness of the Alaska concept, it was going to vie for resources between the aforementioned Pear and Ronin to reach production, and clearly the company had almost no resources left. The Pear also seemed to be the next model planned, as the company even had planned pricing for the tiny hatchback ready when it made its public debut in Los Angeles. Like so much of Fisker, that pricing was ambitious at well under $30,000.

As For The Website

We mentioned that Fisker's website is getting buried in search results. It's still up, though, and you won't find much there. All that's left is a letter to owners explaining how to handle an outstanding recall on the Ocean, as well as how to get reimbursement for any recall-related work that they may have paid for. That was one of the few wins Ocean owners got when the government decided Fisker still had to cover recall costs even if it went bankrupt. We digress, though. Besides that letter is just a Fisker logo. Any information about the models it had planned, any press releases, photos, or vehicle details are all gone. It's a sad remnant of yet another ill-fated electrified car company with Henrik Fisker's name on it. None of these cars are getting a second life under a new company, either, like Karma.

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