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Ok, 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.
by wlesieutre 9y ago
Ok, 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.