| Nikola Whistleblowers Info
Anonymized By Inner City Press as
Covers US v Trevor Milton
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 22 – While reporting on
the US v. Trevor Milton trial,
whistleblower information came
in. It had to be anonymized,
and has been, ever further:
"There are
pictures of parts and their
prices that they posted on the
wall, for a
cost-reduction workshop. They
had a girl cutting paper
strips and using tape to cover
up all the part prices.
Each
battery alone (before the 30%
price increase on the LG
coils, so they've undoubtedly
gone up now) was listed as
$29,704. There are 9 batteries
on each truck.
All the parts
shown, including the
batteries, but not including
at the very least the cab, and
who knows what else, was
~300k.
An ex-manager
said that Nikola never thought
they would profit on the BEV.
But needed it to help keep
them going, keep investor
interest, so they could raise
money until they could get the
FCEV going. They have huge
problems with the BEV Romeo
batteries & Romeo battery
management software.
There were
problems with the FCEV. A
functional leader gave out a
document for the timeline for
the FCEV and said those
timeline/production dates were
incorrect, but that he wasn't
allowed to change them on the
official document.
There was an
email just a couple days
later, telling us that no
matter what we heard, those
were the delivery dates. But
with the problems they'd
explained they were having
with the FCEV, though, the
email-writer couldn't believed
what he wrote."
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