Nikola's "cab-over" Tre goes into production this year as a battery-powered model. Nikola said it still aims to find additional hydrogen infrastructure partners this year, as well as more fleet customers to test its vehicles. Nikola Motor’s fuel cell truck is packed with advanced technology that automakers have experimented with. Nikola announced a letter of intent Thursday to supply Total Transportation Services with 100 trucks — 30 battery-electric and 70 fuel-cell big rigs — by 2023. What with their promised fleet of EV semi-trucks, they were set to beat Tesla semi-trucks, donning technology that Elon Musk was yet to get his hands on. Whatever the state of its technology, few companies have experienced Nikola’s meteoric rise. CNBC visited Nikola’s headquarters to get a look at its Nikola Two hydrogen fuel cell truck prototype and talk to the CEO about Nikola's tarnished reputation. GM still plans to provide Nikola with fuel-cell technology, but the auto giant will no longer be taking an 11% stake in the startup nor will it be helping to build the Badger pickup truck. Nikola Motor has been turning heads for a while now. Nikola Motor Company’s Badger is a fully-electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric pickup truck. Nikola is set to supply Total Transportation Services (TTSI), one of South California’s prominent port trucking companies, with 100 Nikola trucks powered by battery and fuel cells. A hydrogen fuel-cell version is due in 2023. The signing of a letter of intent hardly guarantees that trucks will be delivered -- plenty can go wrong before TTSI actually gets behind the wheel of Nikola's trucks. But it’s new tech to the heavy-duty trucking industry. Nikola says electric-hydrogen truck never ran, as company publishes counterpoints. Nikola Corp. posted a narrower-than-expected loss for its latest quarter as the troubled startup ramped up testing of its debut battery-electric semi trucks and made progress on … Despite founder Trevor Milton saying the One was "not a pusher" and could move under its …