“This is the biggest advancement we have seen in the battery world,” he tells Forbes. Public demonstrations of batteries using its cells will happen in about 10 months at the company’s Nikola World technology summit in Phoenix in late 2020. Production of battery packs using the technology could begin as early as 2021. Each fuel-cell truck also uses a battery pack to complement the hydrogen powertrain, so any battery improvement would boost range or lower production costs. So how did Nikola come across a new approach to EV batteries that Tesla and an entire industry seem to have missed?

Source: Forbes November 19, 2019 14:00 UTC