Most people do not really know how HTML works, and nobody but technical people should really.
Or at least - they could make major mistakes in communication.
If he was 'my CEO' I would understand that he was trying to say 'Infotainment is a platform, built on extensible tech that everyone knows how to use' - this is fair.
It seems like Nikola is a fraud, but this isn't the red flag actually. This is standard miscommunication.
I agree this could be easily understood as a result of some internal talks where they switched platforms and he got a report saying "We don't need to rewrite the infotainment system, it's mostly HTML5, so we're all good even after we switched from X to the customised ARM foo". It's still stupid, but doesn't mean he's actively lying here.
Most people do not really know how HTML works, and nobody but technical people should really.
Or at least - they could make major mistakes in communication.
If he was 'my CEO' I would understand that he was trying to say 'Infotainment is a platform, built on extensible tech that everyone knows how to use' - this is fair.
It seems like Nikola is a fraud, but this isn't the red flag actually. This is standard miscommunication.