What if Tesla start to build Truck’s with their technology?
If you’re a truck lover you must have definitely thought like that. Sometimes
Tesla may have ideas to come in to truck industry as well. But this news is not
from Tesla but a new company called Nikola from Utah.
They were doing all there planning and developments keeping
it as a secret and the company claims that they have a group of wealthy private
investors funding their project. And they have received some pre-orders
already, even though still the product is in computers and documents. And Company
promised to release the first working prototype by end of this year.
Trevor Milton a former executive at dHybrid System do the decision
making for the company while Nikola is the latest company became famous after
Faraday Future made their debut with a concept car at CES Las Vegas.
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The Truck has a 150-galon-dHybrid storage behind its cab,
which can fuels a turbine generator to charge 320-kilowatt hour battery. Then
the battery makes the move by driving six motors, one motor per each wheel.
Company call this truck by their name as “Nikola One”.
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Company has plans to make a nationwide network of refueling
stations to support their customers same way like Tesla did.
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