Tevva Plans On Fuel Cells For New Electric Truck
The UK startup Tevva is on track to prove that batteries and fuel cells can coexist on one electric truck.
The UK startup Tevva is on track to prove that batteries and fuel cells can coexist on one electric truck.
Strapped down to Allison’s dyno and ready to give it a serious hurtin’, this Nikola truck could spawn the future of OTR semis.
On Thursday, May 4th, Nikola Corporation slipped quietly onto the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol NKLA, opening at $37.55 a share, and then it spent the rest of it’s debut week bouncing around near that price before more than doubling on Monday, May 8th, when it closed at $73.27.
In 2019, Digital Trends published an article titled “Hydrogen Was The Fuel Of Tomorrow, So What Happened?” A few years ago, hydrogen and battery electric vehicles were in a race to win the prize of being the future of transportation, or so it was claimed.
Nikola Motors has partnered with IVECO to establish the manufacturing hub for its first production vehicle in Ulm, Germany. The facility will produce both the battery electric and fuel cell electric versions of the the company’s cab-over heavy duty truck for the European market, the Nikola TRE.
Today, Nikola Motors unveiled a new electric truck, the Badger. The vehicle is still in the early stages of development, but the company is working on a battery electric version and a hydrogen fuel cell electric configuration that can also recharge its onboard battery from the grid. The Badger will hit the market with a 600 mile (965 km) range and a 0–60 mph time of 2.9 seconds.
The Nikola Motor Company dropped a bomb on the electric vehicle industry today with news of a pending acquisition of a team that has developed next generation battery technology. The news comes with claims of a cathode with 4 times the energy density of today’s lithium-ion cells, lasts for 2,000 cycles, and at a cell cost of 50% less than today’s lithium-ion cells.
CNH Industrial N.V. announced a new $250 million investment into the Nikola Motor Company as the lead investor in a new Series D funding round. The investment round comes as Nikola works to integrate a single lease plan for its vehicles that roll all vehicle, service, maintenance, and fuel costs into a single lease price in a bid to offer early adopters assurance of predictable prices and payouts for their fleets.
The Nikola Motor Company is working to change the way humans get around with its array of electrified vehicle offerings. This week, the company announced that it was awarded a $1.7 million grant to research the fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) development.
Nikola Motor Company is mounting an all-out assault on the status quo, with a fleet of new vehicles that would be challenging enough to bring from concept to prototype to release candidate to production by themselves. On top of this challenge, the company is planning to overthrow the network of … [continued]