Nikola for Tesla

Keep your car safe. Reach Tesla enlightenment.

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Nikola is the guardian for your Tesla, proactively helping you keep your car healthy and giving you access to essential data that is not available from Tesla. Receive alerts to keep your car healthy, generate a "Nikola Report" when you sell it.
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David Hodge
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Hey guys, I’m David Hodge, the Nikola developer. I built Nikola after leaving Apple for my own use, but people kept asking if they could use it too, so I made it public. With this launch of version 2.0 I’ve added EV health monitoring, more watch capabilities, and the Nikola Report, which is essentially CarFax for your EV. Would love to answer questions you have. Nikola is a guardian app for your Tesla that: 1. Helps you keep your car safe, by sending proactive alerts about battery health, leaving the car unlocked, and more… 2. Deepens your understanding of your car and how you drive it, with detailed charge and drive statistics, graphs, and history. 3. Increases the resale value of your car with a Nikola Report (like CarFax for your EV), with details about battery usage and wear. For a bit of background on me: I formerly founded Embark (a transit app), acquired by Apple in 2013. At Apple, I was an engineering lead for Maps. And as you can guess, privacy and security are super important to me, so Nikola is built with that philosophy in mind. Your data is yours. Happy to answer any questions you have!
Jordan Banafsheha
ClaySQL
@david_hodge Big update! Looks really well done. Great work!
David Hodge
Hunter
@jordanbanaf Thank you Jordan!
Sidhant Gandhi
@david_hodge super excited to see Nikola grow beyond the initial early adopter phase!
David Hodge
Hunter
@mizinlee thank you!
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
This is cool. Check it out, @jimmydouglas.
Jimmy Douglas
@rrhoover This is super cool! Probably a huge hit.
Rony Fadel
Kay
Isn’t the name confusing? (https://nikolamotor.com/). I thought it was a scheme to replace your Nikola car with a Tesla at first 😄
Aarjav Trivedi
ReachNow
Great to see the new capabilities - I definitely need the unlocked alerts and could use the tax tracking. The Carfax for Tesla report sounds pretty useful - curious what things does it track?
David Hodge
Hunter
@aarjav a bunch of different things. I'll show you when I start sending out sample reports. The single most useful item will be the battery degradation curve. All batteries degrade, but knowing the trend there will be super valuable.
Matt Gardner
RIP Android :( Would download if it ever comes over!
David Hodge
Hunter
@thatmattgardner Good to know! thanks
Larry Hays
Can't wait to try this one out.
David Hodge
Hunter
Keeping it iOS focused and native for now! Perhaps someday.
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