No. Bankruptcy isn't debt forgiveness. Buyers and the lawyers representing the class action suit would have a seat at the hearing and would be able to get in line for whatever is left.

That said: come on, people, Tesla isn't filing for bankruptcy. There are hundreds to thousands of perfectly normal financing options available to run a company with revenues like this that will stretch a cash shortfall into a decades-long decline. And that's assuming that their revenue won't continue to grow.

This is a story you cite if you want to "prove" that Tesla won't take over the world or is eventually going to be passed by Toyota or whoever. Large corporations just don't die like this.

I still don't understand the community of people who... really, desperately want Tesla to fail. Is this a politics thing about EVs? A reverse cult of personality around Musk? Hipster group think? It's really unsightly.