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According to Electrek.com, Nikola Motors has lost almost its entire supply chain leadership over the last few months as the situation at the company is starting to look dire.

Questions:

  1. Why has the founder of Nikola Motors been in the news over the past few years?
  2. Why did the company move away from developing a lot of their core technology to rely on suppliers in the first place?
  3. What parallels does this case have to the Theranos case?

Source:

Lambert, F. (2022). Nikola Motors (NKLA) loses it whole supply chain leadership, puts hiring freeze as situation looks dire. Electrek.com, Feb. 8 (Retrievable online at https://electrek.co/2022/02/08/nikola-motors-nkla-loses-supply-chain-leadership-hiring-freeze-situation-dire/)