Trevor Milton is the founder of Nikola, a hydrogen fuel cell truck company. He didn't finish high school or community college; he's now 40 years old. His first business was an online marketplace and classified ads not dissimilar to Craigslist or eBay. Part of it is his background as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The bombastic founder of an electric truck startup (no, not Elon) has been convicted for his role in his company’s “intricate fraud.” But even without the crimes, getting EVs to market has proven a lot harder than everyone thought.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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