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Nikola Contractor Couldn’t Believe His Eyes When He Saw Video
- Fraud trial of electric truck maker’s founder Milton begins
- US calls Milton serial liar; defense puts onus on company
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A Nikola Corp. contractor testified that he was was so struck by a video of the electric truck maker’s first prototype in action that he made a call to find out how the footage was produced.
Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury in the fraud trial of Nikola founder Trevor Milton the now-famous video of the prototype seeming to move on its own power. In fact, they said, it was rolling down a short slope thanks to gravity, and the clip was staged to make it look like the vehicle was operating.