{"id":1998450,"date":"2023-08-11T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikola-recalls-209-battery-electric-trucks-halts-sales-after-fire-probe\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:22:01","slug":"nikola-recalls-209-battery-electric-trucks-halts-sales-after-fire-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikola-recalls-209-battery-electric-trucks-halts-sales-after-fire-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola recalls 209 electric trucks, stops sales due to fire investigation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikola-recalls-209-battery-electric-trucks-halts-sales-after-fire-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Recall and Sales\u200c Suspension: Nikola&#8217;s Electric Trucks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electric-truck maker \u2064Nikola has announced a recall of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikola-recalls-209-battery-electric-trucks-halts-sales-after-fire-probe\/\" title=\"Nikola recalls 209 electric trucks, stops sales due to fire investigation.\">approximately 209 battery-powered electric trucks<\/a> and has temporarily suspended sales. This decision comes after an\u200c investigation into recent fires revealed a coolant leak \u200cinside a\u2062 battery \u2063pack as the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary findings of the\u2063 probe, conducted by \u200ba third-party investigator, were confirmed on Thursday when\u200b a &#8220;minor thermal incident&#8221; occurred on one pack of a parked engineering-validation truck. Fortunately, no\u2063 injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foul play or other external factors were unlikely to have caused the incident,&#8221; stated Nikola in a press release, emphasizing that efforts are underway to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2062 initially suspected foul play when it launched an investigation in June after trucks at its Phoenix,\u200c Arizona, headquarters\u200b caught fire. Last month, a damaged truck kept at the Phoenix site for monitoring reignited.<\/p>\n<p>Internal investigations conducted by Nikola&#8217;s safety and engineering\u2064 teams have\u2064 identified a single supplier component within the battery pack as the probable \u200dsource of the coolant\u2062 leak that led to \u2062the\u200d vehicle fires.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with supply\u2062 chain challenges\u2063 and weaker demand, Nikola has decided to\u200c focus \u2064solely on hydrogen fuel cell trucks and will produce battery electric trucks only upon\u2063 order.<\/p>\n<p>On August 4,\u2062 Nikola appointed Chairman Stephen Girsky, a former General Motors executive, as\u2064 its chief executive, marking the \u200cfourth change in leadership within four years.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u200d has expressed &#8220;substantial doubts&#8221; about its\u2062 ability to continue as a going\u200c concern for \u200bthe next 12 months, reiterating its warning for the third time since February, as it awaits crucial additional capital.<\/p>\n<p>As a precautionary measure, Nikola has requested customers and dealers of its Tre battery electric trucks to take\u2064 immediate safety measures, including considering parking them outside.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, Nikola&#8217;s shares\u200c fell by as much as 5.6% after the market closed.<\/p>\n<p>  (Reporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru and\u2064 Abhirup\u2064 Roy in San Francisco; Editing by Sandra Maler and William Mallard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/nikola-recalls-209-battery-electric\/attachment\/file-photo-logo-of-u-s-truckmaker-nikola-in-hanover\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Other News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>David Weiss\u2064 becomes Special Counsel in \u200cthe \u200dHunter Biden probe, while Sam Bankman-Fried trades his mom&#8217;s basement for a \u200cjail cell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>With \u200bless than two weeks before the first GOP Presidential debate, \u2062media and\u200c political\u2064 strategist Adam Weiss says it\u200d would\u2062 be beneficial for Trump not to participate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The lack of\u2063 answers \u200dfrom the Biden Administration continues to cause frustration from families who lost loved ones during \u200bthe U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>California&#8217;s Attorney General Rob Bonta is now investigating Chino Valley Unified School District \u200cafter they adopted \u2063a policy that will require the school to\u200b notify parents if their child identifies as transgender, requests to be called by different pronouns, and wants\u200d to\u2062 use a different bathroom.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Investment Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Australia-listed investment firm GQG Partners increased its holdings of Nvidia Corp shares in the second quarter, ending June on a positive note.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Technological Advancements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>California firefighters are\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ftx-sues-bankman-fried-others-to-recoup-fraudulent-transfers\/\" title=\"FTX is taking legal action against Bankman-Fried and others to recover fraudulent transfers.\">utilizing artificial intelligence<\/a> to enhance wildfire detection, utilizing video feeds from multiple sources.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>SEC Decision Delayed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange \u2063Commission (SEC) has postponed \u200dits decision on whether to approve Ark\u200c Investment Management&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problems-of-working-from-home\/\" title=\"Challenges of Remote Work\">cloud-based identity<\/a> and authentication\u2062 infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Cyber Safety Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidate-singh-on-his-2024-campaign\/\" title=\"GOP candidate Singh discusses his 2024 campaign.\">cyber\u2063 safety body<\/a> will conduct a comprehensive assessment of cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric-truck manufacturer Nikola is recalling 209 battery-powered trucks and halting sales due to a coolant leak in the battery pack causing recent fires. A third-party investigation confirmed the preliminary findings, which were further supported by a small thermal incident on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1998451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}