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0:00When Elon Musk created Tesla , everyone
0:01was thrilled . And this engineer
0:03wondered what would happen if he made a
0:05Tesla too , but a truck , so he built a
0:07prototype . Investors were pleased and
0:09poured 30 billion dollars into the
0:10project . Even Elon Musk believed in it .
0:12By the way , following Tesla's lead , he
0:14named his company Nikola . Though , no
0:16one understood where he would get such
0:17a large and efficient battery . But the
0:19engineer insisted , " I've calculated
0:20everything . " And then , the company
0:22Nikola released a video . Their truck
0:23was actually driving . Everyone was
0:25stunned . Investors put in more money ,
0:27but journalists grew suspicious . They
0:28figured out where it was filmed and
0:30visited the site . It turned out there
0:32was a hill , and the truck was just
0:34rolling down it . It didn't even have
0:35any battery inside . It was empty inside
0:37, and the prototype on stage ran on a
0:39secret cable no one noticed then . After
0:41that , the Nikola company went bankrupt .