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> (1) who had ever heard of 'Nikola' before this Previous discussion of Nikola on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683508 https://news.ycombinator.co
by wlesieutre 9y ago
> (1) who had ever heard of 'Nikola' before this
Previous discussion of Nikola on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683508
I think most people who follow electric vehicles at all seriously have heard of them.
- jacquesm 9y agoSure, but that's a very small group of people. If you had taken a straw poll of 10 truckers three weeks ago I highly doubt any of them would have been able to name them.
- wlesieutre 9y agoOk, but they also had 7000 preorders in a month with $1500 deposits ($10.5 million total), so it's not like the trucking industry hasn't heard of them.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's not the argument they make. They argue that they will be associated with battery fires because of superficial resemblance of their exterior designs.
- manicdee 9y agoFunnily enough it is likely to be the other way around since the Nikola has flammable fuels on board (hydrogen, CNG or LNG are options on the drawing board) so it is more likely that Nikola Ones catching fire because of turbine exhaust problems will taint Tesla.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoDon't be so sure: https://www.overdriveonline.com/ https://www.overdriveonline.com/ https://www.roadking.com/truckers/whats-down-the-road/ https://www.roadking.com/truckers/whats-down-the-road/ https://www.truckersnews.com/?s=nikola https://www.truckersnews.com/?s=nikola