About 9 months have handed because the official groundbreaking of the Nikola building website in Coolidge, Arizona on July 23, 2020 and right here is how the positioning seems like now.

Drone video from Bear’s Workshop reveals a near-complete first constructing, which in all probability inside a month or so will get the partitions. There may be additionally a smaller construction on the aspect and a bunch of interior roads.

The video describes the ability as “Nikola Semi Pilot Manufacturing unit” and that is in all probability appropriate because it appears too small to be thought-about an actual manufacturing unit.

The corporate for certain have a plan of gradual enlargement to provide battery-electric and hydrogen gasoline cell automobiles.

The primary mannequin that will likely be produced to be the battery-electric Nikola Tre (at present prototypes are produced at IVECO’s plant in Ulm, Germany), adopted by Nikola Tre FCEV hydrogen gasoline cell truck, anticipated in mid-2023 and greater Nikola Two FCEV (within the second half of 2024).

The trial manufacturing of Nikola Tre BEVs in Europe is scheduled to start in June 2021.

Hopefully quickly we are going to be taught extra in regards to the Nikola Tre as its market launch, no less than in Europe, will in all probability occur later this 12 months. On the hydrogen gasoline cell truck entrance – we’re sceptical in regards to the final result, particularly if battery electrical variations will take off.

Tesla Semi is promised to enter manufacturing this 12 months. Daimler and Volvo are additionally fairly superior on their semi vehicles and people are just some out of many different producers.

Nikola Tre specs (from April 2021):

• as much as 300 miles (483 km) of vary in an undisclosed check cycle
• modular battery system as much as 750 kWh
• system output of 645 hp (about 480 kW)
• DC quick charging au as much as 350 kW