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  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Industrials
    Trevor Milton’s merry boardmen

    Please, lord, make this happen

  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Nikola rejects Trevor Milton board nominees after fraud sentence

    Electric truck maker says its convicted founder still owes the company $165mn plus interest

    Trevor Milton speaking in front of one of a truck in 2019
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for fraud

    Truck start-up’s market value fell sharply after report claimed investors had been misled

    Trevor Milton arriving at the New York federal courthouse on Monday for his sentencing hearing
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Inside BusinessPeter Campbell
    Electric vehicle failures offer lessons for the next boom

    The great and the good should think twice about backing speculative ventures and do more due diligence

    Nikola Refuse truck
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    Trevor Milton
    Trevor Milton’s smol bean legal defence

    Your Honour . . . 

  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    Trevor Milton
    Former Nikola boss should not get prison time for fraud, his lawyers argue

    Trevor Milton is set to be sentenced on November 28

    Trevor Milton leaving the courthouse in Manhattan where he was on trial for fraud
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    US electric truck start-up Nikola set for showdown with convicted founder

    Trevor Milton has urged other shareholders to reject plan to issue more shares 

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Hydrogen — Fantasy or fuel of the future?
    Backing for hydrogen projects lifts investor confidence

    Incentives and fundraising successes are driving momentum, easing concerns about the fuel’s potential

    An Air Liquide electrolyser that is expected to produce around 2,500 tonnes of hydrogen each year
  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Lex
    Nikola: electric vehicle stocks keep rolling downhill Premium content

    Rough road ahead for EV start-ups but the long-term trends are in their favour

    Nikola truck
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Trevor Milton
    Nikola founder Trevor Milton convicted of fraud

    Federal prosecutors had accused him of misleading investors to drive up the share price of electric vehicle company

    Trevor Milton at the federal courthouse in Manhattan
  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
    An electric truck start-up founder goes to trial

    Trevor Milton and his electric vehicle start-up Nikola became Spac darlings in 2020. Then it all came crashing down

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Nikola founder Trevor Milton accused of misleading investors at fraud trial

    Defence calls electric truck entrepreneur an innocent victim of ‘prosecution by distortion’

    Trevor Milton outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan at the start of his criminal fraud trial
  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    Lex
    Nikola/Romeo Power: auto tech stars forced into distressed consolidation Premium content

    Electric truckmaker’s deal for battery group is a measured bet on buying and operating a supplier

    A Nikola heavy duty truck
  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Industrials
    Raising Arizona (rescue debt)

    Two pandemic darlings in Phoenix fall on hard times

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Lex
    Nikola: fallen Spac darling now dependent on rescue capital Premium content

    With financing markets no longer lenient, any interim capital needs come with painful terms

    The Nikola Tre electric truck
  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Dealmakers’ worst nightmare: antitrust agencies form their own monopoly Premium content

    Plus, Nikola settles with the SEC, and GSK makes a move in its activist battle

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Lex
    Nikola: electric truck start-up drives away from founder

    US carmaker delivers first vehicles and agrees to pay SEC $125m to settle charge related to former boss Trevor Milton

    Trevor Milton speaks during a presentation of Nikola’s new full-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell battery in Turin, Italy
  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Electric truck group Nikola pays $125m to settle SEC fraud charges

    US regulator accused ex-chief Trevor Milton of misleading investors on vehicles’ capabilities

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Nikola expects to pay $125m in SEC settlement

    Electric truck start-up says it will seek repayment from its founder with who it is in dispute with over legal fees

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    News in-depth
    Nikola shows its first viable electric truck to the world: ‘It’s real!’

    Group unveils vehicle after it was accused of faking video of a prototype by rolling it down a hill

    A Tre electric truck in a factory
  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    Nikola slashes delivery and sales projections for 2021

    Electric truckmaker says supply chain shortages could prevent it from booking revenue

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Due Diligence
    The face of the Spac boom is accused of misleading investors Premium content

    Plus, a much-awaited report on the Archegos crisis and private equity’s involvement in the UK’s most beloved institution

  • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
    Electric vehicles
    Nikola founder Trevor Milton charged with making false statements

    US prosecutors allege he ‘told lies to generate demand’ for truck start-up’s stock

    Trevor Milton
  • Saturday, 19 June, 2021
    News in-depthSpecial purpose acquisition companies
    Nathan Anderson, the Hindenburg founder taking on Spacs

    Short seller has dropped his latest bombshell by targeting blank cheque darling DraftKings

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    Electric truckmaker Nikola receives new SEC subpoena

    US regulator is examining start-up’s plans to raise new capital from investors

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