its good to be the KING - Mel Brooks.

BOSCH POWERTRAIN EXPERTS !

@@matthiasgrunwald895 - BOSCH is a NAZI organization. Bosch , cant even make the Plaid drivetrain.

Believing in the product despite a psychopathic CEO and making it to the other side is admirable. I'm glad Milton will live forever in disgrace. He and his posterity will also never work again, but disgraced....

JT, just what makes your opinion important.?

Yeah that’s concerning. Maybe just residue from a sealant? I hope so. But why didn’t they clean off from the top cover too?! Strange and sus

Yowza

Yup, they're overheated and charred. Just think, that this is their "show" and demo vehicle! How do regular production vehicles hold up? Maybe that's why they have they have over 231 BEVs gathering dust at Nikola and "Dealers"

@@shazam6274 how do they have 231 gathering dust? Source?

@@Houndzee from Nikola's 2nd Quarter report "Nikola had 139 BETs in inventory at company facilities at the end of the second quarter of 2023, while dealers had 92 BETs on forecourts at the same point, it said Aug. 4." i.e. 139 +92 = 231 As reported here: "Transport Topics" aka ttnews... Aug 7, 2023 article.

To Trevor "Fraud-Meltdown" Milton : DON'T drop the soap🧼 in prison shower!! 😬😬😬😅

Milton is a billionaire, I'll be suprised if he sees a prison cell.

Maybe a country club prison ..😏

Trevor is a wise man .. won’t be surprised to see him back .. he is still one of the top shareholders ..

​​@@michaelsmithers4900maybe but I doubt he even gets that. Supposedly we will see next month but I think people hoping he gets the electric chair are gonna be sadly disappointed 😅

So you focus entirely on one fact about Bosch? How about how they are also arguably one of the most powerful supplier brands on planet earth?

Fun Fact Harry, USA employed all the nazi mad scientists they could and the father other the first president Bush bankrolled Hitler's nazi movement. Bosch sounds suspiciously German indeed. I bet those Bosch engineers are going to kill the planet some way or another LMAO.

They are the ones that developed and designed and integrated the Hydrogen Fuel Cell for this project - spent a great afternoon interviewing the team a few years ago

Oh, now I know why there is heavy collaboration by two

Yeah Lots of faces of company who wont even know if they are deceiving people, They will be more careful this time but that isn't as confidence inspiring as investors would hope 🥸

Batteries to heavy for trucks. Too less range. Electric for cars yes but for long haule only hydrogen.

@@deluexemusic9172 you are like 6+ years out of date - I interviewed the team designing the truck + Bosh (Fuel cell) + Iveco (cab) and I got passed one to another to interview them talking about how heavy the full cells setup was vs battery and they were finding it very hard to stay within USA trucks weight laws because the fuel cells setup was much much heavier than battery-powered truck - hence why the BE truck come out first

lots of greenwashing for power utility companies they know it doesn't make much sense but funding was there and makes them look good.

@@QALibrary agree, i like how someone commented above how batteries are heavy… Fuel cells are heavy, expensive, require Hydrogen storage and will probably still need batteries as an intermediary as the fuel cell will likely not make electricity at a high enough rate for acceleration under load. At the end of the day they are electric trucks.

@@QALibrary sources please.

Wonder if its gonna roll downhill from here

@@namelastname4077old joke . Grow up

@@bossusa365 yeah, they should stop "badgering" them

Ok Yesla junkie society 🗑🗑 trolls 😂

even bigger NIKOLA cannot scale , because they Dont build the TRUCK.

It´s a standard "IVECO Stralis" cab from Europe. Italy to be precise.

@@TFB-chris Interesting so they used an existing truck cab. That would definitely help them proceed more quickly. All they need do is integrate the electric powertrain and any other mechanicals related to it. And provide the instrumentation in the cab that would be required. Not saying that that's a small task. But at least it eliminates them having to deal with the basic structural stuff. The only thing I noticed in the test drive was that only the front axle is powered and I think they mentioned that it's direct drive. That could pose a problem in certain places. I often found it necessary to engage the differential lock. That engages the rear axle also. Occasionally you'll run into a dock or a roadway that is at a steep angle. And as the truck turns weight will come off one of the wheels. Unless you can lock that rear axle in you'll end up spinning one of the drive tires. Probably could mitigate this with either limited slip differential in the drive axle. Or perhaps they have two separate drive motors one for each wheel providing traction control.

they used most of the existing truck.@@kens97sto171

@@kens97sto171 Not just the cab but most of the truck. Nikola doesn't have any experience in truck design so they collabed with Iveco to design a truck around their technology. It's essentially an European Iveco S-Way with Nikola's battery pack. Electric motors were co-developed with Iveco as well.

@@sic22l Well that explains why it's so complete smooth and well made. Honestly I think Tesla bought to think about doing this too. The variety of different types of trucks in the United States is rather extensive. I often think that Tesla along with making their own truck, should offer the powertrain and integrated technologies to existing truck manufacturers. Let Kenworth have Tesla electric drive as one of the power plant options on their trucks. That's how it works currently. You can buy a Peterbilt or a Kenworth with a Cummins or a Mercedes or other engine choices. Along with a variety of transmissions, rear axle ratios. And all sorts of different options. Be a lot less complex for Tesla simply to make powertrain and battery packs and let the truck manufacturers that already know how to build a truck well to integrate that into their existing vehicles.

But he is a bit gullible from Companies that are out of business already

@@myvizn8387 I don't quite understand what you were trying to say, but my point is that for a layman like me, every bit of his advice is really valuable. And not only because of professional knowledge, but also because of the way of thinking and setting priorities. I also noticed in him a lot of the principles that also guided me as well. Stay well, regards.

You just don't know enough to realize how little value there is in what Sandy is saying. He didn't even look at any of the powertrain and chassis - he just let the sales rep talk and rode around in the cab.

@@brianb-p6586 Simplicity is art of education. Ability to control/stop yourself to talk and let other talk is equally important as knowledge and refers to quality of character. Truth comes to light when You look at his work background and then look at Yours/or mine. This is my observation and my accepted truth. And I agree that You can have Yours as well.

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I am no expert, my guess would be the grease from the trailer connector.

It's not the orange connector. Something fell on top.

@@MrSegmentfault negative

You are so welcome!

Agree, and how much hydrogen will they have available? In Europe they have built hydrogen filling stations with non hydrogen……they only got money to build them….

@@JohnBBuck That's great because CO2 is plant food and there's a food crisis.

government $$ baby lol this will be main limiting factor and it is very

Unless you have a magnificent much better alternative, you better STFU !!

with FOSSIL FUELS, uses more energy , than H2 can output.

Thank you 👍

NIKOLA Fool Cells are Litteral H2 bombs on wheels.

@@markplott4820 And electric vehicles are mobile incinerators.

- @@leyatan0123 - Statistically, any BEV is way SAFER than anything else. FCEV are just Rolling HYDROGEN bombs.

@@markplott4820 , you really don't know what a hydrogen bomb is, do you? There is no possibility of hydrogen fusion of a tank of hydrogen gas. Yes, it could burn, or even burn rapidly, but that's not a "Litteral H2 bomb", or even a "literal H2 bomb".

It has a single rear drive axle, also known as a 6X2 since it has tag axle. The Nikola version in the USA has dual tires on the tag axle, making it look like it is driven unless you look closely; the IVECO version in Europe has single tires on the tag axle, making the 6X2 configuration more apparently. 6X2 with singles on the tag axle are common in Europe, but very rare here except on large buses. Yes, all that power is to one axle. Search online for FPTindustrial and their eDriveline, model "eAX 840-R", to see the electrically powered axle provided by IVECO's FPT division. The Tre BEV apparently isn't using the full peak power of this unit, presumably due to battery limitations.

SCANIA is the Ultimate in OVL heavy hauler Trucking, but its BEV is Crappy.

Actually even the whole production powertrain has been developed by the joint venture Iveco/Nikola, now fully owned by Iveco and is produced in the new Iveco/FPT e-power plant here in Italy (Torino), including the batteries. The European trucks will be assembled in Ulm. Iveco has been licensed to produce everything and Nikola in exchange can use the Iveco S-way platform to produce their trucks in the USA. Considering how bad the financial situation is for Nikola, who knows what will happen...

Look up "Eddie Stobart" in the UK. Since the 1970s they've had their drivers in smart fashion ... including ties!

Part of the testing of the tanks included them being shot with high caliber rifles...and thats no shit.

the plop of grease on the HV cable (probably from the 5th wheel) you mean?

Hydrogen trucks are already dead. But if they weren't, Nikola wouldn't be around long enough to find out

For a novice, can someone explain. In Germany, we have a lot of windmills and everybody constantly talks about the fact that we cannot store that energy when there's excess. Wouldn't it make sense to turn that energy into hydrogen even if there is a lot of efficiency loss? I say that having listened to Elon Musk saying many times that hydrogen just doesn't make sense from an efficiency point of view. But I do wonder, wouldn't it make sense to turn wind and solar into hydrogen anyway?

Nikola bankrupt before xmas 2023 😎

@@mikafiltenborg7572 They just sold 100s of trucks, wtf are you talking about?

You should really stop "Badgering" them...hehe

@@HydrogenFuelTechnologies they did not sell yet but are discussing it. If it goes through then they also need fueling infrastructure lots of places they could fail to deliver which is all the company is known for thus far.

@@HydrogenFuelTechnologies, do some research mate, they have even said several times to their shareholders they may not be around much longer several times...they are hemoraging money!

Yes, the cab and complete chassis - even the electric motor equipped drive axle - are all IVECO. It's their S-way model, but with an IVECO eAxle.

@kfrdubber That happened when Sandy put his foot down "She canny take it captain" lol

Driving trucks in the 1920s? Sandy was born in 1949.

you mean the plop of grease?

@@phtofl Now trucks recalled for just this item - water ingress?

All EVs and hybrids have regenerative braking, and Sandy talked about the regenerative braking during his test drives in this video. Although they have regenerative braking, that is not enough; all vehicles have friction brakes (drum or disk, hydraulic or air). Like all other heavy trucks, these IVECO S-ways have air brakes. The trailer does not have any electric motors, so it only has air brakes. Much of the time, the truck will only use regenerative braking on it's one driven axle, instead of using the air brakes.

There have been no Nikola Tre FCEV fires. All the tucks that caught fire were Nikola TRE BEVs and they used a different brand battery to the FCEVs.

I found images of the interior of the S-way on IVECO's website, and even the diesel version has a flat floor. Apparently the cab floor is so high that there's no doghouse, and so the EV and fuel cell versions don't even get that as an advantage. Yes, the refrigerator drawer is in the standard S-way... the Nikola people didn't add that.

What's the largest battery they've fitted? With good charge curves and access to fast chargers, 733 kWh would of course not be needed. Two or three 350 kW chargers, old reliably tech, to charge a single truck with a partitioned pack, would do the trick just fine with 500 kWh and not too lazy cells.

@@Cloxxki SCANIA has two designs - one is for last mile deliveries and one with overhead power take off from overhead power lines ie like a train. They have/working on an extended-range full BE truck of up to 500km+

SCANIA make good ICE trucks , POOR performance BEV semi.

Where I live that is a benefit. We get down to -50 in the winter. At least some of that heat can be captured and used.

I don’t think NACS can move enough energy… I don’t think Tesla is using it for their trucks… not sure though…

@@michaelsmithers4900 NACS is good for up to 1 MW according to Musk. The Tre is using CCS1 at up to 350kW right now.

@@michaelsmithers4900 From Tesla documents, NACS should be able to push 1MW. but Tesla semi can charge at 1.5 MW so uses a beefier connector.

@@fluitfluiten The chargers Tesla is providing for the Semi are only 750kW. The square connector they are using might be capable of more but the battery in the truck apparently is not.

@@cruiser97eric1 where did you find that? all I can find is the statement of getting a 70% charge in 30 minutes. which assuming a battery size of 850 kWh = an average output of 1.19 MW

TESLA semi will be Certified w/ just a normal Drivers License.

@@markplott4820You will need a commercial driver’s license to drive the Tesla Semi, just like you would for any class 8 Semi truck of that weight. It won’t be certified for an ordinary driver’s license.

@@Zorkmid123 - that RULE is likely to change , as Sandy illuded to . likely will be ELECTRIC semi License and separate DESEL semi license. Stress & Workload is LESS , BEV safety is Higher. Tesla semi performs AUTO checks of its Equipment .

That's because they made it. Nikola buys them, ships them to their facilities, adds the electric powertrain and puts on their logo.

Yes,@@shazam6274 , and even the electric drive axle is supplied by IVECO.

We sure did 👀

Actually, after watching again, two truck orders. 100 from Alta (don't know if BEV or FCEV) and a 100 BEV truck order from unnamed company in New Jersey. Time to load up folks before the news it's the press.

I'm gonna assume NFI out of New Jersey. 🤔

@@jamescoleman9616 They're one in the same. Alta is a dealer, they receive purchase orders from the end customer. So the customer in NJ that is purchasing them is buying them through Alta, one of Nikola's dealers. So there's only 100 trucks in total being purchased here

If that's the case, still a big deal. I'll take it@@natemeininger

On August 3rd shareholders approved an increase of common stock which will greatly improve Nikola's access to capital. 800 million shares have been authorized.

LOL. Short seller alert. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A bunch of their trucks burned down and the rest had to be recalled. This company was started to defraud investors, not sure why Sandy keeps promoting them so hard.

@@martins7385 three trucks caught fire because of a coolant leak by the battery. Is a fairly new technology so every EV brand has had issues with fires so don't single out Nikola. You don't have to show how clearly against them you are because your argument turns to nothing. The rest were recalled to avoid the issue Get the facts right.

@@thingshappen9199 I'll do whatever I want, thanks. Where are the hydrogen fuel cell trucks and all the infrastructure that Trevor promised? Nikola was a fraud from the beginning and Trevor will soon be behind bars. And btw, this wasn't his first scam. Their stock price has been hovering just above 0 for a while now, so the short sellers already closed their positions. Why is Munro promoting Nikola so much but they don't mention the fire and recall? The fire happened in June but no mention of it here. Was Nikola keeping it a secret / lying by omission? I'm all for electric vehicles but pardon me for not taking this particular company seriously.

You mean Ralston Purina? 😁

Go hydrogen if you want to waste 66 % energy 😊 Nikola bankrupt before xmas 2023

Rich is a moron!

FCEVs have a few problems though. First of all the truck is much more expensive than the BEV one. Second - running it on hydrogen costs as much as diesel...

The economics will be its downfall. Electric trucks will be far cheaper over the truck life. Bio diesel trucks might be cheaper. Diesel trucks will be cheaper.

that looks like a plop of grease sitting on the HV cable. probably from the 5th wheel

Well spotted!

And the life of the hydrogen components?

OR.... if the Gov'ment subsidizes the technology until the taxpayers get tired of it OR somehow physics get changed....