The company&#x27;s Facebook account only appeared on May 1st and their Twitter sometime since then [1][2]. It also appears that their website only became public on May 4th [3]. Given the recentness of their public presence, I would not imagine that they were expecting this much publicity yet.<p>I think that they are legitimate because the &quot;What&#x27;s Inside&quot; photo for the Nikola One is definitely an export from a real CAD model [4]. And Google Image search cannot find the photos they have on their social media profiles used anywhere else besides when referring to them [5]. That said, they seem distinctly in the prototype phase and have a long way to go before actually shipping something. Tesla took 6 years to ship less than 150 cars. [6]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nikolamotor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nikolamotor</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;nikolamotorcompany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;nikolamotorcompany</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whois.domaintools.com&#x2F;nikolamotor.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whois.domaintools.com&#x2F;nikolamotor.com</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nikolamotor.com&#x2F;one#safety" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nikolamotor.com&#x2F;one#safety</a> (my dad does mechanical engineering, and the only place I&#x27;ve seen pictures like the one on Nikola&#x27;s page is in CAD exports)<p>[5] (monster URL, had to shorten) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;zsvt8hx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;zsvt8hx</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tesla_Motors#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tesla_Motors#History</a>