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@InsiderNikola
Sep 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Those of you who live in the SLC area should go do the #NikolaChallenge : take your car out to the Mormon Trail, where Trevor faked his truck driving, put your car in neutral and see how fast you can roll!
Post your results here with the #NikolaChallenge hash tag.
Here is the spot for the #NikolaChallenge it is on the Mormon Trail just a couple of miles south of Grantsville, Utah and next to the Grantsville Reservoir. Image
We got up to 56 mph in a Honda Pilot starting from the cattle guard, so the bar has been set! Can't wait to see all of your #NikolaChallenge videos.

#NKLA #NikolaGate #NKLAQ
Free Badger for whoever wins the #NikolaChallenge, they are giving those out like candy. Might just be a picture of one though.

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Nov 8, 2022
Here is the story of the biggest allegation against Nikola that did NOT make it into the Hindenberg Report--and why it was left off.
Please read this whole thread. It is an important story, and delves into some of the unexpected issues that can face whistleblowers. 1/x
As I researched Nikola in August 2020, one of my biggest questions was: "What are they doing for batteries?" I had already discovered that Trevor was falsely stating that off the shelf inverters were made by Nikola, & I suspected something similar was happening w/ batteries. 2/x
The inverter lie was a big deal but batteries would be even bigger as that's the most important part of an EV, something where a company can build significant value if they have some clever IP. I knew enough about Nikola to know that they couldn't be making batteries in house 3/x
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Jul 22, 2022
I read Trevor's June 2020 interview with Bloomberg this morning. Unsurprisingly, it was full of lies. That's what liars do--they lie. And when they get caught in a lie, they tell different lies. This is a skill that Trevor has, and he uses it here fluently.

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Trevor's answer to Bloomberg's allegations that the Nikola One prototype was not functional was to say that it was made nonfunctional for safety reasons. This is a lie. It was not functional because Trevor ran out of time, expertise and (probably) money to make it functional.
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Trevor says that the motors and gear boxes were removed for safety reasons. Lie. They were not removed because they were never installed. Empty shells were lowered into the truck. How do I know? Reader, I was there.
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Sep 29, 2020
So, let's talk about the Nikola Two. For those who don't know, that's the two trucks that they had Bosch design and build for them a couple of years ago. It's their ace in the hole--a truck that runs! We've all seen videos of it limping around the parking lot.

Please read on...
So, the Nikola Two does run. But does it run well? No. In one of Trevor's most brazen and bizarre lies, he claimed that it could do 0-60 in under five seconds, when anyone could see it took at least 10 seconds. Trevor deleted the video, but here it is:

When people called him out his responses were bizarre. He claimed that the ten seconds was from 0 to 60 then back to 0 even though the video plainly contradicts this. He promised that an edited video would somehow clarify what everyone could see themselves (that video never came)
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Sep 21, 2020
It wasn't the biggest news to drop this weekend, but the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal both confirmed the rumor that Nikola signed a contract with Romeo Power to use their batteries in the Tre. Here is a (long) thread explaining why this is so important.

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Not only does this represent yet another lie from Nikola (Trevor stated on several occasions that the Tre would be using Nikola batteries) but it also has forced them to make a grave design error. This thread will be a little technical, but I'll try to explain this crucial error.
So, a little background on battery design. When you are designing a battery you have two separate things that you have to account for: capacity, which gives you range, and voltage, which allows you to provide necessary power. You get both of these by connecting together cells.
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Sep 14, 2020
When Trevor switched from CNG to H2, he didn’t want the range to decrease so he arbitrarily kept it at 1200 miles. At the show, he defended the range with numbers “based on our testing”. They weren’t—the truck wasn’t done. And they ended up being off by more than a 2x factor.
All this time he was taking preorders with deposits—for an order value book of billions of dollars if you believe his numbers. And then he used that to raise huge investment. THAT is why this is such a huge scandal. The lie about the functional truck mattered.
Mark Russell has tried to defend this scandal by saying that the truck was designed to be functional. But if they had actually finished the truck and done the testing they claimed, they would have found the specs they were promising were massively off, both range and mileage.
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Sep 11, 2020
Who is the CIO of Nikola? Well, according to LinkedIn, there are two people: Morgan Mackelprang since 2015 and Isaac Sloan since 2019. Obviously they don't have two CIOs, and since Isaac is more recent and listed on the website, he is the real one. Read on...

#NikolaGate
So apparently Morgan never updated his LinkedIn to reflect that he is not their CIO. But who is Morgan Mackelprang? In short, he is one of Trevor Milton's closest deputies. They go way back.
A decade ago, Trevor and Morgan were entering contests together for Doritos commercials. But they have been together for much longer, being long time friends.

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