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EV truck maker Nikola goes bust (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do they count as an EV maker if they never actually made anything?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

What do you mean - they have video proof they built a truck. It didn't move on its own power, but they built it.

[–] Concave1142 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Yup. The phrase “EV truck maker” is doing a lot of work in this title.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The first* truck to use 100% gravitational power which is a much cleaner power source than electricity or internal combustion.

[–] cornshark 10 points 2 days ago

Should have called it the Newton

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I'm surprised they survived this long, being a crappy imitation brand that also committed fraud.

[–] Diplomjodler3 9 points 3 days ago

This shitstain of a company has been around far too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Just one of those terrible companies. Glad to see them go.