大概在6个月以前Nikola这间公司就发表了Nikola One这个电动拖车头的概念
Nikola One具有全轮驱动、1000马力、2000ft.lbs扭矩、1200miles的续航力
采用氢动力，加满只需15分钟，内含320kWh的电池
http://i.imgur.com/TmOQCpt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AdRLEPH.png (第N代的柯博文会长这样子吗？ XD)
今天更进一步的正式发表了这台车并且叙述了未来加氢站的建置计划
Nikola One跟Nikola Two的发表会影片：https://youtu.be/wLidTCqAAtY
Nikola计划2018在北美开始建设300个加氢站
并且在2019年末让第一个加氢站开始运作
而氢气的来源将会是由太阳能农场制造出来的电力电解水而产生的
个人觉得这饼有点画的太大了
加氢站的建设资金非常高，比加油站高多了
记得以前看过一份评估说建设一座加氢站需要150万美金，300座那就是4.5亿美金了
再加上太阳能农场
不过氢能源倒是很适合用在这种大型卡车上
一般小型车比较适合在家就能充的纯电动车
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Nikola Motor unveils its plans to revolutionize trucking: a Uber-like
service for cargo using hybrid fuel cell/battery trucks
After months of teasing its electric truck, Nikola Motor finally unveiled
the first Nikola One prototype before a crowd at its Salt Lake City
headquarters last night. There wasn’t any surprise for the truck itself
and most of the startup’s plans, but they did reveal a few new partners
and explained in more details what they plan to do and when they plan to
do it.
The Nikola One is an electric Class 8 truck powered by a 320 kWh battery
pack and a stack of hydrogen fuel cells, which the company claims enables
a range of 1,200 zero-emission miles. The vehicle was first supposed to
be equipped with a natural gas range extender, but the company announced
a few months ago that it will be using hydrogen fuel cells and possibly
also natural gas in different markets.
That’s where things are difficult to believe. With a 320 kWh battery,
which is large for your average electric vehicle, but not sufficient for
a class 8 truck, you can’t go anywhere with that kind of energy towing
80,000 lbs. Nikola’s concept relies on hydrogen and there’s just no
hydrogen infrastructure in the US, or almost anywhere else on the planet
for that matter.
It’s not like battery-powered vehicles where we didn’t have any
charging stations. Yes, we didn’t have many charging stations, but there
was an existing electric grid infrastructure. It’s not the case for
hydrogen. You need to build the infrastructure and the refueling
stations. That’s like building the electric grid and charging stations
for electric vehicles.
Hydrogen fuel cells fans, like Nikola Motor CEO Trevor Milton, like to
point out that it’s the most common element in the universe, like he did
during his 40-minute presentation (embedded below), and it is true, but
they always forget to mention that it doesn’t exist on our planet in any
usable form for energy storage. We need to create it.
There are different ways to create it, but Milton said that Nikola plans
to use electrolysis powered by solar farms. They plan to build those
solar farms, electrolysis plants, storage systems, and then transport the
hydrogen to refueling stations.
The company announced that they plan to cover North America with over 300
hydrogen refueling stations with construction starting in 2018 and the
first stations being operational in late 2019:nikola-2
The company will not sell hydrogen and instead, the cost will be included
in the $5,000 to $7,000 monthly leases Nikola plans to offer.
Milton didn’t explain how he plans to accomplish that with his team of
roughly 20 people nor where the money will come from for all those
stations. It seems like an unlikely plan at best at this point.
The plans for the actual manufacturing of the Nikola One truck seemed a
lot more realizable than the hydrogen infrastructure plans, but one doesn
’t work without the other.
The company partnered with truck manufacturing and tuning company
Fitzgerald. They will be taking care of the manufacturing of the first
5,000 units, according to Milton, but he wants for Nikola to eventually
take over the production process with a $1 billion manufacturing facility
to be announced next year.nikola-3
Where the money will be coming from for the factory is also unknown at
this point. They still have some time to figure this out since Nikola One
is not expected to hit production until 2020 – when the first hydrogen
stations are planned to be active.
The truck itself was designed by Nikola’s team in partnership with two
engineering firms, Pratt Miller and Meritor. Here’s the prototype:
The company claims to have received reservations worth nearly $4 billion,
but they didn’t disclose if there’s a deposit attached to those
reservations. Apparently, U.S. Xpress is among those who reserved the
Nikola One.
Ryder System with its network of 800 service locations in North America
was announced as Nikola’s exclusive nationwide distribution and
maintenance provider for the Nikola One.
Milton also announced a Uber-like service for cargo that he presented as
a way to facilitate the job of independent truck drivers that will be
leasing Nikola’s trucks.nikola-6
Nikola Motor will serve as a trucking company with customers and it will
list jobs for independent drivers to deliver.
A mentioned ‘Uber-like’ service, but Uber itself is actually working on
a similar service with its UberFreight. The company started testing the
service earlier this year alongside its autonomous driving program by
Otto. They made the promotion of it during an autonomous beer run with
Budweiser.
Speaking of autonomous driving, Milton mentioned cameras around the
Nikola One, but he said that they are in place for the driver to have a
better vision of his surroundings. It didn’t mention any advanced
autonomous features for the Nikola One.