The Nikola One and The Nikola Two Electric Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks by Nikola Motor Company
Geschreven op 10-7-2017 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Vervoer en OV
Imagining the future of the vast trucking industry that will become autonomous in the coming years. The Nikola One gorgeous, hydrogen fuel cell truck will have a range up to 1,200 miles.
The young company plans to begin leasing their trucks by 2020 for about $6,000 a month — including the cost of fuel — but it will first need to build a network of about 400 charging stations throughout the country.
Cobmpanies like Walmart are looking to transition to fleets powered by cleaner natural gas, the bridge fuel America has embraced to transition to renewables. That’s where Tesla comes in. Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer, plans to unveil an electric-powered semi-truck in the next six months.
Battery range will be the biggest obstacle to the widespread adoption of electric trucks as Tesla’s pack will probably only have a 200-300 mile range. The other challenge will be having enough charging stations — and enough power available at each station — to support fleets of Tesla trucks.
Cutting the emissions of semi-trucks is great for the environment, but the real cost-saving opportunity lies in cutting out the drivers. It’s been more than a year now since six convoys of semi-autonomous smart trucks arrived at the Netherlands port city of Rotterdam after leaving factories from as far away as Sweden and Southern Germany.
That experiment relied on a system called platooning, a semi-autonomous feature allowing trucks to find each other, link up, and draft to cut down on wind drag, saving energy—just like in NASCAR or the Tour de France.
And in October, a self-driving truck completed the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle, delivering a load of Budweiser more than 120 miles across Colorado. A human got the truck on the highway and engaged the autonomous system, then climbed out of the driver’s seat. That truck was made by Otto motors, which was recently acquired by Uber.
On December 1, 2016, Nikola Motor Company unveiled its electric sleeper semi-truck, the Nikola One. In addition to unveiling the Nikola One, Nikola made several other monumental announcements including: a partnership with Ryder, granting Nikola owners access to their over 800 service and warranty locations across the United States and Canada, 364 planned Nikola Hydrogen Stations across the United States and Canada, a $1 Billion manufacturing facility, the Nikola Shipments software, and The Nikola Two, the electric day cab semi-truck.
See also: The Einride T-Pod: An Electric, Self-Driving Truck Without Windows by Einride – De Truck van de Toekomst – The Zero Emission Electric Bus of the Future – The Future of Trucking – Renault Falcon Truck: Een Laboratorium op Wielen by Renault – Drie Distributietrucks met Waterstof Brandstofcel voor Asko in Noorwegen by Scania – Cummins AEOS Electric Concept Truck Unveiled by Cummins – OEX-B Zero Emission Overland Truck by Hamid Bekhradi – De Zero Emission Smith Newton Taurus 265-12.5E by Custers – The First Full Electric Heavy Duty Terminal Tracker, de Nautilus E30 – The Full Electric Tesla Semi Truck: A Beast by Tesla – Thor Electric Semi ET-One
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10 juli 2017 om 13:15 | Permalink
The Future of Trucking
The semi-truck. Our modern lives are completely dependent on them. Look around you. Every object you see probably traveled on at least one big rig. Here in America, truckers make up 2% of the workforce. But with multiple game-changing technologies converging simultaneously — and the relentlessness of the hyper-competitive global marketplace — the industry will be revolutionized within the next two decades.
This is an examination of the future of trucking.
Before we get into the technology that will turn it all upside-down, we must first understand the way this extremely fragmented industry works now. To the numbers! There are about 3 million drivers for 2.5 million trucks in the US. Those trucks are owned by 532,000 carrier companies, but 90% of these fleets have fewer than six trucks—and half of all carriers are single individuals who own and operate their own rig. Then you have the middlemen, the freight brokers. These 13,000 companies play matchmaker between the manufacturers and wholesalers (who are trying to get their goods to market) and the retailers (who make the final sale to the consumer).
Because this industry is so splintered, there aren’t universal software systems tying it all together. In fact, 67% of shippers don’t use software at all and rely solely on paper records—in 2017!
This creates tremendous inefficiency. When every piece of information has to be communicated through human interactions, drivers are frequently forced to wait hours to book or pick-up a load. And sometimes they just don’t, an estimated 20% of trucks on the road are empty.
To solve these problems, investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on startups competing to develop the silver bullet, a software layer that can be used by every segment of the industry.
Another area ripe for modernization is how trucks are powered. Today, medium and heavy duty trucks account for 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions produced in America.
To their credit, companies like Walmart are looking to transition to fleets powered by cleaner natural gas, the bridge fuel America has embraced to transition to renewables. That’s where Tesla comes in. Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer, plans to unveil an electric-powered semi-truck in the next six months.
Battery range will be the biggest obstacle to the widespread adoption of electric trucks as Tesla’s pack will probably only have a 200-300 mile range. The other challenge will be having enough charging stations — and enough power available at each station — to support fleets of Tesla trucks.
The Nikola One attempts to overcome these limitations. This gorgeous, hydrogen fuel cell truck will have a range up to 1,200 miles. The young company plans to begin leasing their trucks by 2020 for about $6,000 a month — including the cost of fuel — but it will first need to build a network of about 400 charging stations throughout the country.
Cutting the emissions of semi-trucks is great for the environment, but the real cost-saving opportunity lies in cutting out the drivers. It’s been more than a year now since six convoys of semi-autonomous “smart” trucks arrived at the Netherlands port city of Rotterdam after leaving factories from as far away as Sweden and Southern Germany.
That experiment relied on a system called platooning, a semi-autonomous feature allowing trucks to find each other, link up, and draft to cut down on wind drag, saving energy—just like in NASCAR or the Tour de France.
And in October, a self-driving truck completed the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle, delivering a load of Budweiser more than 120 miles across Colorado. A human got the truck on the highway and engaged the autonomous system, then climbed out of the driver’s seat. That truck was made by Otto motors, which was recently acquired by Uber.
And dozens of massive, 240-ton trucks are already being used in Australian mines. So that’s the near-future we’ll see in the next 10 years: fleets of driverless trucks. Some will be designed to be autonomous, while others will have the system installed later. Many will be electric, and nearly all will be connected to efficient networks that are not slowed down by frequent human input.
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20 september 2017 om 14:31 | Permalink
Bosch Partners with Nikola on Hydrogen Electric Long-Haul Truck
Bosch, the German auto components supplier, is partnering with Nikola Motor Co to bring two hydrogen-electric, long-haul, heavy-duty truck models to market by 2021.
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19 december 2017 om 20:26 | Permalink
Nikola NZT: The most powerful and sophisticated electric UTV in the world
Introducing the all new Nikola NZT.
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28 december 2017 om 13:26 | Permalink
Wabco investeert 10 miljoen in Nikola
Toeleverancier Wabco heeft voor 10 miljoen US dollars geïnvesteerd in Nikola Motor Company, het bedrijf dat elektrische en op waterstof lopende trucks op de markt wil brengen.
Nikola is van plan eind 2018 te beginnen met het testen van haar emissievrije trucks in vloten van transportbedrijven. Een marktintroductie en serieproductie staat gepland voor 2021.
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30 januari 2018 om 14:24 | Permalink
Nikola One Helps Phillips Celebrate 90 Years of Innovation
Nikola Motor Company and the Nikola One electric semi-truck are helping Phillips celebrate their 90 year legacy in 2018. Nikola joins with Phillips in saluting the customers who have been with them for the long haul.
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1 februari 2018 om 13:40 | Permalink
Nikola One in Motion
Behold, the 1,000 HP, zero emission Nikola One semi-truck in motion. Get ready for the pre-production units to hit fleets next year in 2019 for testing. The Nikola hydrogen electric trucks will take on any semi-truck and outperform them in every category; weight, acceleration, stopping, safety and features – all with a 500-1,000 mile range!
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15 juli 2018 om 16:50 | Permalink
Nikola Reckless Fully-Electric Light Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle at 2018 SOFIC
Andy Christian, Vice President of Nikola Defense, discusses the performance and features of Nikola Reckless, the fully-electric light tactical all-terrain vehicle at the 2018 SOFIC Innovation Showcase held recently at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL.
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9 februari 2019 om 17:23 | Permalink
Hydrogen truck company Nikola Motors announced Nikola Two and Nikola Tre would come to market in both a hydrogen and a battery electric build when they are unveiled at Nikola World 2019 next month.
The Nikola Motors announcement that it will bring battery electric trucks to market in parallel to its hydrogen fuel cell trucks is great news. More options for more fleet managers. The new battery electric semi trucks will come to market in 500kWh, 750kWh, and 1MWh variants that would provide service on shorter routes, according to the company.
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31 mei 2019 om 19:17 | Permalink
360° Cab Series: Nikola The hydrogen truck by TTMtv
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25 juni 2019 om 15:02 | Permalink
Nikola WAV electric jet ski unveils, comes with the world’s first wakeboard architecture feature
At Nikola World, which took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nikola showed off the Two and Tre hydrogen fuel-cell semi trucks, the NZT electric off-highway vehicle (OHV, named such due to weight), the Reckless electric autonomous remote-controlled military OHV, and the WAV, or Water Adventure Vehicle electric jet ski concept. Everything but the WAV has been, at some point, shown in the past.
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19 februari 2020 om 20:52 | Permalink
Nikola Motor Company Presents The Nikola Tre: Truck to the Future
Introducing the #NikolaTre BEV aimed for the European market and powered by Nikola’s battery technology combined with IVECO’s manufacturing.
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11 augustus 2020 om 17:09 | Permalink
Nikola krijgt order voor 2500 elektrische vuilniswagens byRepublic Services
In 2022 hoopt men de vuilniswagens te kunnen testen. Een prijskaartje wordt niet genoemd maar Nikola zou de voertuigen voor minder dan 500.000 dollar per stuk willen verkopen. Republic Services kan de order verhogen tot 5.000 stuks.
Update 24 december 2020: De geplaagde Amerikaanse truckfabrikant laat weten dat de samenwerking met recyclingbedrijf Republic Services is beëindigd en de plannen voor de gezamenlijk te ontwikkelen huisvuiltruck in de prullenbak liggen.
Republic Services had al 2.500 van de voertuigen bij Nikola besteld. Het doel van de samenwerking was het ontwerpen en bouwen van een elektrische vuilniswagen op basis van een nul-emissie batterij-elektrisch aangedreven platform en carrosserie.
Na oriëntatie en evaluatie hebben beide bedrijven vastgesteld dat de combinatie van de verschillende nieuwe technologieën en designconcepten zou resulteren in een langere dan verwachte ontwikkelingstijd en onverwachte kosten. Als gevolg hiervan wordt het programma beëindigd met als gevolg dat de eerder aangekondigde order wordt geannuleerd.
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9 september 2020 om 16:47 | Permalink
The Volta Zero Electric Truck 2022 by Volta Trucks
More than probably any other company in this sector, Volta Trucks has adopted the spirit and some of the design of the Tesla Semi. It has the driver seated in the middle of the cabin in its newly revealed Volta Zero. It has two fairly large vertical touchscreens flanking the steering wheel, and one more in a horizontal position behind the steering wheel. The steering wheel itself is even a bit reminiscent of a Tesla steering wheel.
Volta Trucks says that it’s “the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle,” but the first pilot trucks are due for sometime in the first half of 2021, and real production and deliveries are scheduled to start in 2022.
“The Volta Zero will start undertaking operator trials with some of Europe’s largest parcel delivery and logistics companies in H1-2021. Orders have already been taken from companies wanting to secure the first customer-specification vehicles, which are due to be delivered when production starts in 2022.”
The Volta Zero is not meant for long-haul or even medium-haul duty, though. It is tailored for package deliveries within the city. As such, it will have a pure-electric range of 150–200 kilometers (95–125 miles). That comes from a 160–200 kWh lithium-iron-phosphate battery pack.
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9 september 2020 om 16:56 | Permalink
General Motors Takes $2 billion Stake In Electric Truck Startup Nikola
The deal nets GM a $2 billion stake in Nikola, one of the hottest vehicle startups. Along with the financial stake, GM gains one seat on Nikola’s board of directors in exchange for in-kind services.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra said that she sees this as another path to deploy GM’s battery and fuel cell systems.
“We are growing our presence in multiple high-volume EV segments while building scale to lower battery and fuel cell costs and increase profitability,” CEO Barra said. “In addition, applying General Motors’ electrified technology solutions to the heavy-duty class of commercial vehicles is another important step in fulfilling our vision of a zero-emissions future.”
The partnership names GM as the exclusive fuel cell supplier for Nikola’s upcoming class 7/8 trucks.
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20 december 2020 om 19:08 | Permalink
The Truth about Nikola by Real Engineering
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10 januari 2022 om 10:25 | Permalink
Driving Change Nikola S2:E3 Maiden Voyage
Making dreams happen in 2022! In S2: E3, come along for the ride with the Nikola Tre FCEV “Maiden Voyage.”