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Heard his podcast few weeks back, he was very confident about technology and business model. It is surprising to see him resign, Jump ship or pushed out by boar

Heard his podcast few weeks back, he was very confident about technology and business model. It is surprising to see him resign, Jump ship or pushed out by board members. Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks, doing it with self manufacturered hydrogen powered vehicle is the major doubt at this point perhaps.

cynix 6y ago
> he was very confident about technology That might help if he actually knew anything about technology though... > "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."
- nl 6y ago
  >> he was very confident about technology > That might help if he actually knew anything about technology though... Or maybe that would make him less confident! :)
- Scipio_Afri 6y ago
  What the, can you provide a source for that cause wow
  - tdeck 6y ago
    https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-of-the-new-nikola-hydrogen-electric-truck https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-...
- tdeck 6y ago
  I like how this quote says "a HTML" and uses let's wrong too. Seems like whoever transcribed it did a poor job.
- speedgoose 6y ago
  Perhaps they use HTML documents as message format. Some kind of SOAP, but with HTML5 tables and semantic instead of XML. Perhaps the guy didn't really understand the things he was supposed to explain.
vkou 6y ago
I think you grossly underestimate the difficulty of designing and building a new line of automobiles from scratch.
nickik 6y ago
> he was very confident about technology and business model That's his whole stick. He is a bullshit artists, his whole job is to sound confident and sell bullshit. > Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks, doing it with self manufacturered hydrogen powered vehicle is the major doubt at this point perhaps. So they buy trucks and then resell them with the Nikola brand? How would that make them a good buissness. Hydorgen trucks will not be out for many years, Toyota and Daimlre can do it, sure as hell Nikola couldn't. And by 2025 when people talk about hydrogen trucks battery tech already made those designs totally uncompetitive.
perardi 6y ago
“Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks” Here, I have this nice bridge, would you like to buy it, perhaps via a SPAC? Their business model seemed to be centered around building out a hydrogen fueling station network, which is phenomenally complicated. Tesla built out an electric charger network, but that was not particularly technically challenging. Lots of legwork to work with local zoning and businesses, sure, but it’s still just fancy chargers on the electric grid. Building out a giant system to produce hydrogen and safely fill vehicles with it? Again, I have a nice bridge here for sale.

cynix 6y ago

> he was very confident about technology That might help if he actually knew anything about technology though... > "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."

nl 6y ago
>> he was very confident about technology > That might help if he actually knew anything about technology though... Or maybe that would make him less confident! :)
Scipio_Afri 6y ago
What the, can you provide a source for that cause wow
- tdeck 6y ago
  https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-of-the-new-nikola-hydrogen-electric-truck https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-...
tdeck 6y ago
I like how this quote says "a HTML" and uses let's wrong too. Seems like whoever transcribed it did a poor job.
speedgoose 6y ago
Perhaps they use HTML documents as message format. Some kind of SOAP, but with HTML5 tables and semantic instead of XML. Perhaps the guy didn't really understand the things he was supposed to explain.

vkou 6y ago

I think you grossly underestimate the difficulty of designing and building a new line of automobiles from scratch.

nickik 6y ago

> he was very confident about technology and business model That's his whole stick. He is a bullshit artists, his whole job is to sound confident and sell bullshit. > Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks, doing it with self manufacturered hydrogen powered vehicle is the major doubt at this point perhaps. So they buy trucks and then resell them with the Nikola brand? How would that make them a good buissness. Hydorgen trucks will not be out for many years, Toyota and Daimlre can do it, sure as hell Nikola couldn't. And by 2025 when people talk about hydrogen trucks battery tech already made those designs totally uncompetitive.

perardi 6y ago

“Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks” Here, I have this nice bridge, would you like to buy it, perhaps via a SPAC? Their business model seemed to be centered around building out a hydrogen fueling station network, which is phenomenally complicated. Tesla built out an electric charger network, but that was not particularly technically challenging. Lots of legwork to work with local zoning and businesses, sure, but it’s still just fancy chargers on the electric grid. Building out a giant system to produce hydrogen and safely fill vehicles with it? Again, I have a nice bridge here for sale.