{"id":127669,"date":"2018-07-09T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=127669"},"modified":"2018-07-09T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:43:17","slug":"nikola-partnering-with-bosch-on-new-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/07\/nikola-partnering-with-bosch-on-new-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Partnering With Bosch on New Semi-Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the emphasis is on battery power, Utah start-up Nikola is focused on hydrogen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The promise of fuel cells has intrigued carmakers for years because they promise to liberate the automotive business from the petroleum industry but expensive batteries needing rare minerals and complicated manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n

But as the well-worn joke about fuel cells goes the breakthrough in fuel-cell technology always seems to be about 10 years in the future despite the best efforts by companies such Toyota, Honda, General Motors,\u00a0Ford Motor Co. and Daimler AG among others.<\/p>\n

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However, the Bosch Group thinks that commercial vehicles, particularly\u00a0heavy trucks that run long distances over fixed routes, could be ideal candidates.\u00a0Not only can fuel cells easily fit into large Class 8 trucks in many cases, the users of big trucks can supply the hydrogen required to run the electricity generating fuel cells, according to\u00a0Jason Roycht, vice president, North America Regional Business Leader.<\/p>\n

Roycht noted Anheuser-Busch recently placed an order for 800 Class 8 trucks with Nikola, a fledgling truck maker with plans to build electric trucks.<\/p>\n

(Freightliner takes aim at Tesla with two big EV semis and a new e-mobility center. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the heart of the Nikola truck line-up is a new commercial vehicle power train achieved thanks to a development partnership between Nikola and Bosch. The organizations re-imagined the powertrain from the ground up. Bosch\u2019s eAxle expertise has enabled Nikola to move quickly on an aggressive path to bring its electric truck to market.<\/p>\n

\u201cBosch is an incubator of electromobility solutions. No matter whether at established OEMs or start-ups, Bosch is accelerating development and helps achieve fast breakthroughs on the market,\u201d said Markus Heyn, member of the Bosch board of management responsible for the Commercial Vehicle Organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been aggressively pursuing our goal of bringing the most advanced semi-truck ever built to market,\u201d said Nikola Founder and CEO Trevor Milton.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about Tesla\u2019s new semi truck.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe powertrain requires an innovative and flexible partner able to adapt quickly to the speed of our team. Bosch has empowered us to come to market quickly with automotive-grade hardware and software so our vision can become a reality,\u201d Martin added.<\/p>\n

The eAxle developed by Bosch is a scalable, modular platform with the motor, power electronics and transmission in one compact unit. This makes it suitable for vehicles of all kinds, from small passenger cars to light trucks. Nikola and Bosch will use this know-how to commercialize the world\u2019s first true dual-motor commercial-vehicle eAxle for a long-haul truck.<\/p>\n

By 2021, Nikola is planning bring to market the Nikola One and Two, a class 8 hydrogen-electric truck lineup that will deliver more than 1,000 horsepower and 2,000 ft. lbs. of torque \u2013 nearly double the horsepower of any semi-truck on the road \u2013 all with \u201czero local emissions,\u201d as previously announced by Nikola.<\/p>\n

(Why is Nikola Motors suing Tesla?\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to find out.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bosch is also collaborating with Nikola’s new power sports division, which is developing a line of electric-powered all-terrain vehicles that should be ready for market by late 2019, according to\u00a0Michael Erickson, president, Nikola Powersports,\u00a0who provided a look at the new vehicle during the Bosch Group’s Bosch\u00a0Mobility Experience\u00a0\u00a0at the company’s test track in suburban Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The promise of fuel cells has intrigued carmakers for years and it has spread to semi-truck producers as well. Nikola, which is racing with Tesla to put out an EV semi truck, is partnering with Bosch to expedite its fuel cell technology. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":111908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,151,319,155,158,291],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127669"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=127669"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=127669"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=127669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}