{"id":376189,"date":"2020-10-01T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376189"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:49:23","slug":"nikola-ceo-confident-of-deal-with-energy-partner-talks-with-gm-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nikola-ceo-confident-of-deal-with-energy-partner-talks-with-gm-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola CEO confident of deal with energy partner, talks with GM continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Corp Chief Executive Mark Russell said on Wednesday he remains confident the electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle startup will close a deal with an energy partner and talks to finalize an alliance with General Motors Co continue. <\/p>\n<p>There had been reports Nikola&#8217;s talks with energy firms including BP Plc had stalled, but Russell told Reuters he is confident Nikola will still announce by year-end a collaboration with an energy firm to build hydrogen-refueling stations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve talked to all of those folks and those discussions are continuing,&#8221; he said in an interview. &#8220;We&#8217;re confident that we&#8217;re still going to hit the milestones laid out there of announcing a partner by the end of the year and getting stations going starting next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Corp Chief Executive Mark Russell said on Wednesday he remains confident the electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle startup will close a deal with an energy partner and talks to finalize an alliance with General Motors Co continue. There had been reports Nikola&#8217;s talks with energy firms including BP Plc had stalled, but Russell told Reuters he is confident Nikola will still announce by year-end a collaboration with an energy firm to build hydrogen-refueling stations. &#8220;We&#8217;ve talked to all of those folks and those discussions are continuing,&#8221; he said in an interview. &#8220;We&#8217;re confident that we&#8217;re still going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}