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Nikola sells abandoned electric Badger pickup truck program to friend of disgraced founder Trevor Milton

Beleaguered electric trucking company Nikola has sold the Badger electric pickup truck assets it was once supposed to build with General Motors. The buyer? A new company called Embr Motors created by

Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is.

Hydrogen vehicles never really caught on, and yet at CES 2024 fuel-cell vehicles of all sizes litter the show floor. What gives?

Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for securities fraud

Trevor Milton, the disgraced founder and former CEO of electric truck startup Nikola, was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for securities fraud. The sentence, by Judge Edgardo Ramos in the U.S

Trevor Milton to reimburse Nikola $165M per arbitration proceeding

Electric and hydrogen-powered heavy truck maker Nikola was awarded $165 million from its founder and former executive chairman, Trevor Milton, in an arbitration proceeding. Nikola said in a filing wit

Nikola shares tank after EV maker recalls its battery-electric big rigs

Electric truck maker Nikola shares plummeted Monday after it recalled nearly all of its battery electric semi trucks. The company recalled 209 of its Class 8 Tre battery electric vehicles after a thir

Nikola CEO steps down, replaced by chairman

EV truck maker Nikola Corp. said Friday that president/CEO Michael Lohscheller is leaving the top executive positions due to a family health issue. He will be replaced by board chairman Steve Girsky,

Nikola finally gets enough shareholder support to issue more shares

After three attempts and a change in Delaware law, EV truck maker Nikola was able to get enough shareholders to vote on a proposal that will allow it to issue more shares. Nikola said Thursday it rece

EV truck maker Nikola fails again to secure enough shareholder support to issue more shares

Nikola failed for the second time since June to get enough shareholders to vote on a proposal that would allow the EV truck maker to issue more shares in a bid to raise more capital. The company said

EV truck maker Nikola suspects foul play in headquarters fire

Nikola Corp said Friday it suspected “foul play” in a fire outside of its Phoenix headquarters that affected some of its battery electric trucks. The fire, which Nikola tweeted about and h

Electric truck maker Nikola to cut 23% of workforce

Nikola Corp. is laying off 270 employees, or about 23% of its workforce, and restricting its electric truck efforts to North America as it seeks to preserve cash. The company said Friday it will lay o

Nikola’s bid to increase shares stalls after failing to get enough shareholders to vote

Nikola failed to get enough investors to vote on a proposal that would allow the beleaguered electric truck company to issue more shares — and, in turn, raise more capital. Nikola adjourned its annu

Electric truck maker Nikola at risk of being delisted from Nasdaq

Nikola, the beleaguered electric truck developer, is at risk of being delisted from Nasdaq, the company disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing. Nikola said that on May 24 it received a delisting no

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Trevor Milton, ex-CEO of electric truck maker Nikola, begins fraud trial

Trevor Milton, the founder and former CEO of electric truck maker Nikola, is standing trial on federal charges of fraud.

Nikola, Lucid latest EV SPACs trying to raise cash

Two EV manufacturers are seeking cash infusions this week to bring their delayed vehicles to market. Nikola, a Phoenix-based electric truck maker, said in a securities filing Tuesday that it plans to

Nikola taps its president for CEO post

Electric truck maker Nikola announced Wednesday that President Michael Lohscheller will become CEO on January 1. Lohscheller, who will replace CEO Mark Russell upon his retirement, has joined the Niko

Nikola delays shareholder meeting to drum up support to issue more shares

Troubled electric truck maker Nikola adjourned its annual meeting to July 18, giving the company time to lobby shareholders to pass a money-raising measure to issue more shares of common stock. Nikola

EV SPACs are facing a new regulatory speed bump

It’s been a bumpy road for the electric vehicle startups that rushed to go public over the past two years by merging with a publicly traded shell company. Now, the SEC’s broadest attempt to crackd

Chinese fuel cell maker eyeing SPAC deal for $1B US listing

The deal comes at a time when companies that took the SPAC route are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S.

Hype, hope and money: Your guide to all the EV SPAC investigations going on

If 2020 and 2021 were the years of the SPAC, 2022 is shaping up to be the year of the reprimand.
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