Nikola Tre. (Photo: Nikola Corp)
11.02.2020, 02:28 a.m.
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Nikola wants to build his planned electric truck Nikola Tre in Germany – in the Ulm plant of the commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco. The Nikola Tre is expected to come onto the market at the end of 2021.
Only about a year ago, the US startup Nikola announced that it wanted to offer truck versions with purely electric drives in addition to the planned fuel cell trucks. Similar to Tesla with his semi. The Nikola Tre, which is specially designed for the European market, is to come in both a battery-electric and a fuel cell-powered variant. The heavy truck is to be built in Ulm, in the plant of the German commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco, as heise.de writes.
Nikola Tre: 40 million euros for expansion
Accordingly, 40 million euros are initially to be invested at the Iveco site in Ulm in order to modernize production facilities, for example. The $ 250 million cash injection announced in September, which comes from the main investor CNH Industrial, should contribute to this. Iveco is a trademark of CNH. The main focus in Ulm is on the final assembly of the vehicles. Production is scheduled to start in early 2021. In the same year the first Nikola Tre should roll off the assembly line
The first Nikola Tre models will be the battery-electric 4 × 2 and 6 × 2 trucks, whose modular and scalable battery packs should reach a capacity of up to 720 kilowatt hours. According to Nikola, the continuous output of the electric drive should amount to 480 kilowatts. Later, the Tre model operated with fuel cells in Ulm will also be screwed together. The market launch is planned for 2023 here.
2 billion euros: hydrogen strategy beckons
According to Nikola, the presence of qualified workers and technological skills speaks for Ulm and Baden-Württemberg as the location for the construction of an electric truck and a version with fuel cell drive. In addition, the federal government’s fuel cell and hydrogen strategy, which will provide two billion euros to promote technology and infrastructure, is also likely to lure.
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