EV truck maker Nikola has finally called it quits

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EV truck maker Nikola has finally called it quits

The embattled EV truck maker Nikola is going kaput. The company just announced a filing for

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“Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic factors that have impacted our ability to operate,” said Steve Girsky, President and CEO of Nikola.

Those market and macroeconomic factors are real, as EV adoption growth rates . However, Nikola is a special case. The company has been embroiled in numerous scandals in recent years, so this news caps off a particularly dire fall from grace for the once-buzzy EV maker.

Nikola was founded in 2015 with a mission to create zero-emissions heavy trucks. The company secured a lucrative partnership with GM in 2020, but things fell apart soon thereafter. It was , thanks to a report by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research. This report even included a video showing a Nikola truck rolling down a hill to simulate driving.

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Our investigation of the site and text messages from a former employee reveal that the video was an elaborate ruse—

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had the truck towed to the top of a hill on a remote stretch of road and simply filmed it rolling down the hill.

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This “elaborate ruse” caused the SEC to begin an investigation which led to founder Trevor Milton . Later, he was arrested and . Milton was and . The company . It goes without saying that .

The company did go public in 2020 and . However, reports indicated that Nikola was

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due to a variety of defects.

This subpar performance caused the stock to crater, stumbling from a high of over $1,000 per share to, as of this writing, $0.47 per share. I guess only one company named after the is allowed to consistently without making a dent on its valuation.

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