EV truck maker Nikola goes bust
EV truck maker Nikola goes bust
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Do they count as an EV maker if they never actually made anything?
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What do you mean - they have video proof they built a truck. It didn't move on its own power, but they built it.
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Isn't this the company that got busted for having their demo video of the 18 wheeler going downhill by gravity... and they claimed the truck was on its own power.
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Yup. The phrase “EV truck maker” is doing a lot of work in this title.
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The first* truck to use 100% gravitational power which is a much cleaner power source than electricity or internal combustion.
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Should have called it the Newton
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It is not unusual for early prototypes. However you don't bring those to a demo like that. You build the prototype a couple months before the demo, then you spend a month testing everything you will demo, either fixing problems or putting them on a list of things to ensure the demo doesn't get into. Cars are too complex to expect your early demos will work - you built those early demos early though to see what you forgot that isn't obvious in CAD.
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I can't believe they survived this long. Hard to really phrase it as "the latest EV company", they've been flailing since they pushed an empty truck down a hill.
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This shitstain of a company has been around far too long.
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I'm surprised they survived this long, being a crappy imitation brand that also committed fraud.
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Just one of those terrible companies. Glad to see them go.
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