RockQuarry1 wrote:
teddyo wrote:
There are 11 000 000 diesel trucks in the US!!!!
2500???? I bet DYA is shaking in its boots!!!
PS: Please excuse my typo -- reserved orders for 54,000 - not 14,000.
Well - let's see now. Nikola - founded in 2014 - 6 years ago - and in that time designed, prototyped, validated performance of - an entirely new, sophisticated, state-of-the-art Truck Design - including propulsion, suspension, body, structure, interior, electrial and mechanical systems, driver safety system, tested it exhaustively for DOT certification, released it to production on their state-of-the-art semi-automated production facility - and and has now received a complete production order, for 2,500 of their $175,000 Nine-Ton Trucks (with "reserved orders" for 14,000 more trucks representing approximately $10 Billion Revenue) - all without having to purchase single phony award and after having spent a little over $190 Million in startup expenses, and without having to hire one single "rocket scientist."
By comparison - Dynamic Fuel Systems (Dynacert - part 1) - was founded in 2001 - 19 years ago - and in that time - they have designed, re-designed, re-designed again, and redesigned yet again then shut down and renamed themselves as Dynacert - then redesigned 2 or 3 more times - ostensibly by a "NASA rocket scientist" -- to finallly build (by hand) a barely - functional electrolyzer with basic plumbing and electrical - which fits into a pelican box, sells for about $ 6,000; and has managed to deliver fewer than 250 units with a 100% failure rate - after having spent at least $ 70 Million - with essentially no revenue.
Hmmmmmmmmm........... I'm sure Nikola is not only NOT - shaking in their boots over Dynacert --- but they're likley never heard of Dynacert --- and probably never will.