https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/06/10/how-mysterious-ev-startup-nikola-overtook-ford-in-one-night-without-selling-a-single-car/

If you hadn’t heard about Nikola, the startup that’s developing electric and hydrogen powered trucks, it recently went public and is now valued at more than Ford, despite having no product. Here’s the lowdown.

Before we get started, yes, like another electric vehicle maker Nikola is named after a certain Serbian-American inventor of the same name, Nikola Tesla to be exact. That parallel to Tesla is going to crop up on more than one occasion too, so take note.