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Nikola Confirms What We All Knew
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Nikola bust onto the scene with a lot of braggadocio. Then whispers that the founder was spouting bullshit turned into murmurs and yells, and then he resigned amid a workplace scandal. Now an internal review from Nikola affirms that he was full of shit. All that and more in The Morning Shift for February 26, 2021.
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Nikola recently hired an outside firm to conduct an internal review of the claims coming from Nikola’s now-disgraced founder. Unsurprisingly, the internal review found that he was about as full of shit as everyone thought.
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Once the most promising automotive startups, Nikola saw quite a proverbial fall from grace in 2020. It doesn’t look like 2021 will be much different, despite obvious efforts to right all the wrongs that have been done.
At one point, Nikola and its over-confident founder and CEO Trevor Milton were promising the world to investors and potential customers. They would deliver an electric / fuel cell pickup to rival Tesla’s Cybertruck, the Badger, and they would also be bringing their flagship hydrogen-powered truck, Nikola One, into production, along with Two and Tre.
And that was just the top of the iceberg in terms of what they bragged about doing or being able to do in the foreseeable future.
Nikola Corp. said that its long-range fuel-cell semi-truck will get as much as 900 miles on a tank of hydrogen when it comes out in 2024, as the startup works to bolster its position in the increasingly competitive field of zero-emission freight vehicles.
The company released an update after having originally said that the Nikola Two fuel-cell vehicle would go at least 750 miles on a tank of hydrogen. Nikola also affirmed that its Tre shorter-range fuel-cell truck, which can run 500 miles, remains on schedule to start production in the second half of 2023.
The update is meant to show that Nikola is making progress as rivals muscle in to sell hydrogen freight haulers. Last month, established semi-truck producer Navistar International Corp. said it plans to enter the market in 2023 using a fuel-cell system from Nikola supplier General Motors Co.
| UPDATED: 09:53, Mon, Mar 22, 2021
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