Nikola’s Engineering ‘BTS’ fills me with a lot of questions and concerns. So, as your friendly Twitter ghost 👻, I will address them all!
[That’s right, it’s Thread Time! 💃🏼 🕺🏻]
As for their claims about patents, I have not read them all but here they are: bit.ly/38UoO5u
Anyway, on with the video!
As for being patented, certainly not by Nikola it seems!
Now it seems like even the Nikola Two prototype is not too alike the final version!
Also, I don’t see Tesla prototypes having so easily accessed circuit breakers not in the right place. Perhaps Nikola expects the truck to fail! And often!
I expect no better from Trevor at this point.
Also, a motor on every wheel? Ignoring the double wheel thingy, that should be 6 motors. Trevor has only 4!
Yeah, that doesn’t add up!
500HP/Motor x 4Motors? That’s not what your website says!
The torque figure is also wrong according to the website (plus nearly impossible to understand in this video)!
What!? 🥴
None of this adds up at all! I think Trevor is trying to talk about something he completely doesn’t understand, yet again! (remember the ‘dual speed, no single speed between... low and high’ melarky?)
No! None of this makes any sense!
That said, it’s still advantageous
A) a failure of a Nikola truck is at least as deadly as a plane crash (plausible)
B) Nikola are as likely to fail as Trevor’s businesses (plausible again)
or C) all of the above! (It’s C, folks)
The Nikola Two will be a primarily (hydrogen) gas-powered hybrid, not like a BEV with a range extender.
Trevor first says they are tested by being shot with a rifle. This is only so good as bullet damage is very different from a collision.
He then talks about the testing with CNG, which isn’t hydrogen.
Trevor also mentions that the gas purges out of the top of the truck and claims that they have some proprietary technology in this regard (which they don’t).
Also, whilst hydrogen isn’t too unsafe, it can never
All the same, it is still funny to call hydrogen vehicles mobile bombs so by all means, continue to say what you want!
Also, as @ajtourville has found, the SEC filings show that Nikola gets 7.5miles/kg of hydrogen, meaning hydrogen range is only 472.5miles!
I guess they are hoping they figure things out before production.
Trevor’s statement is a lie! As soon as investors realise this, he stock will crumble.
Watch this video from 3 minutes: . Tesla in 2017 targeted their 500mile Semi to be at Diesel weight parity!
Trevor also said their current prototype is very heavy, which I believe. What I’m worried about is how they get it down!
The passenger argument is complete bogus as the Tesla Semi actually allows for two passengers, as anyone at the unveiling will attest to.
Also, back to visibility, in all likelihood Autopilot will be the sole driver before long anyways.
Credit where it’s due, this is a good feature everyone should use!
That’s right, no drivers!
Also, from renderings, it looks like Nikola has iPads stuck to the walls. This is terrible design, given that there isn’t much room to sit up and the screen is too far away as is.
He says he will licence it out and make royalties on it, which is very different to what he has said before about just giving it away!
In fact, I am able to give even more detail than Trevor did here: Hexagon is Nikola’s tank manufacturer.
The What?! 🤣🤣🤣
First off, Nikola does ‘the entire eAxle’? ‘eAxle’ is a Bosch product. The non-Bosch version is simply called an axle. Either Trevor is highly confused or he’s severely exposed himself here.
Motors cost thousands of dollars. Multiply that by four now! Tesla’s motors are significantly cheaper than their competitors’, enough to make it viable on economics alone.
Secondly, Tesla’s motors have a
Thirdly, Tesla’s motors and motor software are significantly more efficient than anything else.
There is huge gain to be had from in-house motor development and manufacture, as Munro will tell you.
I mean, is it just laziness that stops OEMs from doing this in-house?
These legacy OEM dinosaurs have no clue what is good and what isn’t. Most probably call their grandkids to find out how to change the TV channel!
Seriously though, is this actually his logic? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Please, $NKLA investors, this is not the next Tesla!
Umm... no.
And I don’t know about you but I don’t see a single self-driving sensor on this thing, save the cameras that are used for mirrors.
Wait a minute, wasn’t this the same guy going on about how it’s important to build from the ground up? 🤦🏻♂️
What the fuck?!
Are we really meant to believe he won’t show it just to create haters on the idea that there is no bad press?
Unbelievable!