Nikola Tre’s electric battery style will be the first Class 8 meeting line of Nikola Corp’s million-square-foot production facility. on a 430-acre plot in Coolidge, Arizona. July.
“We bring a cab to America,” Nikola’s president Mark Russell said. Consumer interest has focused on its use as an urban delivery truck, he added to a virtual press convention on the eve of the revolution.
Nikola uses the European truck manufacturer’s S-Way platform Iveco as the base for its trucks in a factory in Ulm, Germany. The Tre for North America will be longer and will come with a 6 to 4 axis configuration compared to the European model, which is scheduled for 2021 production.
The Coolidge plant, halfway between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, is in progress in 3.5 phases. The first phase of the structure is expected to be completed until the end of 2021, and the phase will be completed within 18 months.
“The other coolidge people will be a giant component of Nikola’s story, and without the help of Gov. [Doug] Ducey and Arizona’s economic progression teams, this assignment would not have been imaginable in Arizona,” founder and ceo Trevor Milton told me. . “The next 12 months will be even more exciting when we see this facility grow and we climb more Arizonans to Nikola’s team.”
The first of truck production will involve the two EVF, then the fuel cells, he added.
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“Mobile fuel has about a year of BEVs on the production schedule, however, five trucks are in pre-production and leave the Ulm production line,” Milton said. “After testing, modifications will be made and will also be built at the Coolidge plant for the North American market.”
“[PhaseArray5] will be a partial installation so we can get started as soon as possible. We are very early in the progression of this plan,” said Mark Duchesne, Nikola’s global manufacturing manager. “We want to build trucks even earlier than expected, and we’re working on how to do it. [PhaseArray5] will be built by hand, slow. Then we’ll increase from there as we put Phase 1 into effect.”
Phase 3 will come with the structure of the entire cockpit at Coolidge, he said.
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Milton said the fuel cells would arrive at the plant as full units, but Nikola will gather the batteries at the plant.
“You don’t need to send batteries, they’re very heavy, they’re very complicated,” he says.
Nikola is several mobile fuel platforms from suppliers, however, for now, Milton expects fuel phones to come from Bosch.
He said consumers will be to load their own BEV cars and pay application fees.
“Anyway, it’s less expensive than a diesel,” Milton said. “We just have to solve a big network challenge. We are not alone; everyone is going to have this challenge [with electricity tariffs].”
Nikola’s mobile hydrogen fuel models will be presented as a component of an included lease, adding fuel and for seven years or 700,000 miles.
“It’s very simple to expect [the hydrogen load] because we can produce hydrogen [at planned service stations] whether it’s a truck or not,” Milton said. “Hydrogen is the key to everything with Nikola in our ability to separate ourselves from our competitors.”
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Hydrogen prices are about $4 consistent with the kilogram and Nikola is running on a target of between $2 and $3 consistent with the kilogram, Milton said.
“The addition of standardization is in terms of hydrogen loading,” he said. “In the United States, there are virtually no stations that use exactly the same [infrastructure] footprint.”
Nikola’s technique is based on standardizing the structure and production procedure to loads. Its purpose is to charge your network of stations at less than $10 million each.
Meanwhile, the new plant will generate about 2,000 jobs in the region.
And if anything Milton needs to communicate with Ducey (who founded Cold Stone Creamery), he has his phone number. And the governor, with a first-hand assessment of the contractors, takes his calls.
Nikola tested the imaginable places of the plant in several states.
“The other governors wouldn’t give him their cells,” Milton said. “They looked for all those separations.”
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