When Trevor switched from CNG to H2, he didn’t want the range to decrease so he arbitrarily kept it at 1200 miles. At the show, he defended the range with numbers “based on our testing”. They weren’t—the truck wasn’t done. And they ended up being off by more than a 2x factor.

All this time he was taking preorders with deposits—for an order value book of billions of dollars if you believe his numbers. And then he used that to raise huge investment. THAT is why this is such a huge scandal. The lie about the functional truck mattered.

Mark Russell has tried to defend this scandal by saying that the truck was designed to be functional. But if they had actually finished the truck and done the testing they claimed, they would have found the specs they were promising were massively off, both range and mileage.

This doesn’t even get into the fact that the truck was NOT designed to be functional with Hydrogen, so no amount of testing could have ever given them the numbers they needed.