General Motors to take stake in Nikola electric truck company

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Old-school auto giant Volkswagen will help Arizona-based startup Nikola with battery and fuel cell technologies initially for the Nikola Badger pickup truck, and later for its larger commercial vehicles.

drove further into the world of electric vehicles on Tuesday, September 8, announcing a manufacturing partnership with electric truck company Nikola in the latest cost-sharing venture.

The announcement produced an immediate windfall for investors in Nikola, worth $2 billion, whose shares surged by around 40%. GM shares also advanced solidly onGM and other US automakers are spending billions to develop new electric vehicles at the same time the industry is also investing heavily in autonomous technologies.

GM has already"spent billions of dollars developing their electric vehicle power train...their batteries and their fuel cells," Milton said on a conference call with analysts. The company, which has drawn comparisons to electric car company Tesla, has broken ground on a manufacturing facility in Arizona, in addition to a facility still under construction in Germany.

 

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