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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAToxJ9CGb8 has the headline "Nikola One Electric Semi Truck in Motion", and shows with camera angles implying it goes uphill.

Lots of frauds are done this way - trying to pull the "well, we didn't exactly say what you think we did". It remains fraud.



It is more interesting to me there are no newer videos than this 2018 showing towing but they do have a video of one with look through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LSrvRMgIqw

so I guess it comes down to this, if they want to dispel issues then let one of their planned early adopters take one for a spin.


They claim it's 1000HP, which would be simple to measure on a pad. Also I guess they could say that the engine is ready and can deliver all that power, but the power cells were not at the time.

(Anyway, I'm not saying they are so honest, transparent, open as fuck, but this is like a trailer for a movie or game, it's a PR piece. It's less shady than the Tesla/SolarCity roof tile demo that Elon did. And I'm looking forward to the court case, because I have no time nor much context really for unwinding this, but I'm interested in what really constitutes fraud in these days when everything looks amazing, everything has a super emotional soundtrack, and of course everything is super over-hyped.)




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