Wrightspeed? Might they be confused as a similar to Nikola, but not?
They have very little press, and still have a functioning website, fabrication and conversation and they did answer the phone when i called. They could not ‘at this time’ give me any realistic numbers, quantities or dates of delivery but their business model seemed simple enough and realistic.
I remember Nikola Motors, and the tall claims they would make, but I mostly discounted them not because i thought he was an outright fraud, but because he seemed too interested in the flash and polish instead of being realistic about the real hurdles of big scale manufacturing. Might that really be his failure, rather than as the video makes him out to be a fraud from day one? What if NikolaMotors was just unrealistic?
Unlike NikolaMotors, Wrightspeed is two fold NOT trying to reinvent and build from scratch the entire truck manufacturing industry. Wrightspeed says they DO NOT want to change-out the entire currently existing fuels systems and already existing truck manufacturers… just offering a new power plant and electric axle.
And YET… even THAT greatly scaled back idea still has not seemed to gained ‘traction’. There seems much more inertia AGAINST change in The System than makes any logical sense at all. Kinda rhymes with our political, business and sociology at large. The incredibly slow ‘awakening’ seems the same again. Whoever truly holds sway in this world, seems to most enjoy that old adage of ‘people are slow to change’, no matter what. Almost as if [They] are somehow now more than ever able to inhibit improvement in our world, yet accelerate change in the negative like our current race to self destruction ie. psychosomatic Covid, UnEducation, breakup of family, healthy traditions and so forth.
Watched the video because I’m interested in the subject matter… it just made me think of how it might relate in our wider world. NitroShift is not my usual time here.
Included an audio interview of one of the guys now working with Wrightspeed who apparently helped startup Tesla.