Nikola’s Badger Is Aiming to Take on Tesla Cybertruck
Feb. 16, 2020With Tesla, Hummer, and Ford competing heavily, the semi-truck market is one crowded market for new companies to fit in. However, this will not stop Nikola Motors to try their best to triumph amidst this heavy competition.
On Monday last week, the company revealed its concept for a new pick-up truck to compete with Tesla’sCybertruck. The Badger will be the company’s offering to the pick-up truck market. They are planning to launch two versions of the truck.One will be a fully battery-powered electric truck and the other will be a hybrid of electric and fuel-cell.
The Badger
According to the makers,the hybrid version of the Badger will have a 600-mile range(300 from battery and 300 from hydrogen fuel-cell). However, the battery-powered version will be getting a maximum range of 300 miles.The Badger can move from 0-60mph in 2.9 seconds, approximately, which is comparable to the Tri-motor version of the Cybertruck. The company also claims that it has a towing capacity of 8,000 LBS (3,628 Kgs), which falls between the capacity of the Cybertruck’s Single-motor (7,500+ LBS) version and the Dual-motor (10,000 LBS) version.
Despite all the awesome specs, there is one major issue. Not with the truck, but with the refuelling of the truck. Althoughthere are a lot of charging stations all across the States, there aren’t enough hydrogen stations to refuel the fuel-celled vehicles, like this one. Nonetheless, the company also claims to solve this problem by installing 700 hydrogen filling stations across the country. It also took the initial steps to finalise some of the locations. But company officials will not unveil the exact locations until later this year.
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