Nikola for Tesla

Keep your car safe. Reach Tesla enlightenment.

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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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Hunter

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!

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6yr ago

ClaySQL

@david_hodge Big update! Looks really well done. Great work!

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6yr ago

Hunter

@jordanbanaf Thank you Jordan!

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6yr ago

@david_hodge super excited to see Nikola grow beyond the initial early adopter phase!

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6yr ago

Hunter

@mizinlee thank you!

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6yr ago

Mission Control Plus for Mac

Isn’t the name confusing? (https://nikolamotor.com/). I thought it was a scheme to replace your Nikola car with a Tesla at first 😄

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6yr ago

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?

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6yr ago

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.

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6yr ago

The Nikola Report is interesting, why was this area seen as a painpoint?

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6yr ago

Hunter

@sidhant_gandhi1 the first pinpoint was EV Health monitoring, where users were forgetting to take care of their batteries or leaving their cars unlocked. People didn't say that wanted the Nikola report, per say, but I figured if they're doing the work to take better care of their car, they might as well have something to show for it.

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6yr ago