Nobe CEO Assaults Investor
Assaulting an EV investor and threats with a glass bottle puts the CEO and the company's future at extreme risk.
The Nobe 100 GT is a great-looking electric car, and we would love to see it become road worthy enough to succeed. We have no desire to make Nobe Cars fail, but if they're heading for failure, they'll get there plenty fast without our help. Having given up our money for lost, we want to provide information that will assure no one else loses their money in this venture.
Investigative Reporting from ERR News
Is Nobe all that it would have us believe? The reporting in the States and UK hasn't even scratched the surface. Most of them haven't even seen the car, much less driven it. Have a look at this English translation summarizing a report from ERR, a mix of CNN and PBS they are the most credible source of investigative reporting in Estonia. A follow-up report from Accelerista shows many Estonians have Nobe's number.
Original articles in Estonian from ERR and from Accelerista.
All for show
Watch this four-year-old's toy outperform the Nobe 100GT. Nobe posted a video they tried to pass off as drifting on LinkedIn. But there is no drifting here, just a slow-moving car dragging a seized rear tire around on a polished, high-gloss, interior floor.
We've all looked at modern art and said "My four year old can do better than that" but we've never looked at a sports car and said the same thing until now.
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He didn't mean to spill the beans, but Nobe Cars USA's CEO, Roman Muljar just keeps digging himself in even deeper.
There is more to report than we have hours in the day. The stories just keep piling in.
Dale Motorcars ripped off investors and stole pre-order deposits
Nobe has the nickname "Euro Elio", but Nobe brings to mind a bigger three-wheeled disaster that promised big and delivered nothing: The Dale. An interesting and innovative design taken over by a CEO who knew nothing about making cars. She was also known for parading around non- or barely-functioning shells to separate suckers from their money, while skipping the actual work that would result in a road-worthy car or a viable company.
Video starts on 1970's oil crisis and founder's history or skip to the Dale's similarities with Nobe Cars.
Nikola Motor's fraud is déjà vu for those who have experienced Roman Muljar
1:05 How could a man look so confident knowing that none of what he was saying was real?
4:41 To run away from all his legal problems he started a new company.
7:19 They stated they were finalizing assembly, but what they actually had was just a frame on wheels.
11:03 Units were to be released the following year, but he never had plans to finish development. He's only interested in one thing: raising more money.
15:11 He perfected a devious game: make up lofty claims to get investors and partners, then use the brand recognition of those partners to get even more investors.
Is there even a chance?
Tech vlogger Marques Rownlee (bio, Forbes Magazine) lists the 5 steps every startup EV company must go through and explains why even those that haven't displayed serial ineptitude never cross the massive gap between Steps 4 and 5. In "The Electric Car Pre-Order Problem" he questions making an interest-free loan with your deposit, listing many companies that raised $1 billion and still disappeared. Read more...
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