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Nikola Unveils Three Reservation Packages for the Badger Electric Pickup Truck
Nikola, the manufacturer of an electric version of the heavy-truck, experienced a phenomenal bull run last week, prompted by the news of an imminent opening of reservations for the much-anticipated Badger electric pickup truck. Today, Nikola Motors tweeted further details regarding the seminal event, currently slated for the 27th of June.
[...] The first Nikola Badger reservation package will cost $250 and will entail a $500 discount applicable to the Badger's MSRP – expected to vary between $60,000 and $90,000. The package also contains a ticket to the Nikola World 2020 in order to view the Badger in-person. Finally, the package will entail 2 entries into a ballot for the Badger giveaway.
[...] As a refresher, Nikola unveiled the Badger electric pickup truck back in February 2020 to compete with Tesla's much-anticipated Cybertruck. According to the details revealed by the company, the Badger will retail in two power configurations: an FCEV (Fuel-Cell Electric) or BEV (Battery-Electric). Though it sports a much more conventional design as opposed to the Cybertruck's sharp corners and the futuristic vibe, the Badger offers impressive specs. As an illustration, the electric truck will offer a headline range of 600 miles through either of the two power configurations. Moreover, it will offer an acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, a torque of up to 980 pounds-feet, and a peak horsepower of 906.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday June 15 2020, @03:17PM (2 children)
https://www.ccn.com/analysts-see-nikola-dropping-80-but-millennials-going-all-in/ [ccn.com]
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 15 2020, @03:20PM
Is it the Bizarro Tesla?
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @06:11PM
Robinhood has definitely become a target of derision for catering to naive traders. I got curious about how they make money with no commission on anything. It costs $0 to transfer money in to RH, but $75 to transfer out. IT'S A TRAP, but that's not how they make most of their money.
A big chunk of their money comes from Pay For Order Flow (PFOF). All brokers do it to some extent, but RH has been cited for favoring PFOF revenue over best execution for their clients. Translation? Your "free" order comes at the expense of the price you actually pay for your shares. This might not bother you if you're just dipping your toes in the market and buying fractional shares of AMZN in $50 chunks; but if you had more money involved the math gets ugly. If you lose $0.10/sh because your broker favored PFOF over best price for you, then a 100 share trade costs you $10 which is more than TD Ameritrade charged before RH forced them to go zero-commission on stock trades in order to avoid losing clients.
So now all the other brokers are tempted to favor PFOF over best execution. It might be happening now. I hope RH dies yesterday and gets sued into oblivion so we can get back to a more honest dealing. You always have to watch what's going on with Wall Street if you're in the game. They've never been saints; but companies like RH really take the cake. Your cake. If the service is free, you're the product. Your money is the product in this case.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:02PM
> ...Nikola Motors tweeted further details regarding the seminal event, ...
So which definition is it? Can't be the first one, since this is the first time the truck has been offered. Must be the second meaning!
sem·i·nal
adjective: seminal
1. (of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments.
"his seminal work on chaos theory"
2. relating to or denoting semen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:23PM (3 children)
if your vehicle doesn't have an 8ft bed it's not a truck. poseurs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:47PM
See what happens when you tell the owner of a short bed (~6 feet) Unimog that (s)he doesn't own a truck!
https://www.benzworld.org/threads/bed-size-measurements.1517839/ [benzworld.org]
You might get a visit from the Governator, his Unimog was a short bed...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @06:36PM (1 child)
Badgers? We don't need no stinking Badgers!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @06:57PM
Badgers! Badgers! Badgers! Snek!! (Someone has to say it.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @07:35PM
Sure, the vast majority of these will be leased. Just like similarly priced ICE pick-ups. And, just like most electric vehicles. I'm still blown away by the price. For a pick up. After all, it's still a pick up truck. 60-90k is a lot to pay.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday June 15 2020, @08:51PM (4 children)
the design of the cybertruck,
the name "badger" by a maker named nikola,
this happens when millennials become target consumers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @09:05PM
They taking over deez streets.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday June 16 2020, @06:14AM (2 children)
ja ja...I'm really surprised that no one caught this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla [wikipedia.org]
Everyone loses 10 points on this part of the exam.
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:36AM
Maybe most people already knew it. Nikola Tesla street, in Rjeka, was there already since the late 70s. Didn't know the guy was so awesome back then, though.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:50AM
Like hell we didn't catch it. The "Bizarro Tesla Motors" is clearly Nikola Motors.
It also sets up the most obvious merger name in history. Nikola Tesla Motors.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 15 2020, @09:32PM (2 children)
I hope Nikola succeeds with its truck. The more companies who enter the space, the easier it is to win over the traditionally die-hard truck buyers to an electric platform.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @10:43PM (1 child)
Don't like this one, wait for Rivien, coming real soon now with both SUV and Pickup styles. Probably coming to a Ford dealer near you,
https://wccftech.com/rivian-1-3-billion-funding/ [wccftech.com]
Ford was part of the funding.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:53PM
Ford is hedging its bets. The F-150 keeps the lights on there. My brother works in the R&D division there and says the company has been chasing Tesla for 4-5 years. His initial reaction to the Cybertruck was, "Tesla shit the bed with this one," but a lot of people put down deposits on them. That has to have sent shivers up Ford's management's spine.
Washington DC delenda est.