Good morning! It’s Monday, July 17, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
The California Air Resources Board and some of the largest truck manufacturers in the world reached an agreement on Thursday to transition truck sales in the state to zero emissions engines by 2036.
What follows is your irregular check in on the state of Nikola, an EV semi startup whose founder got in quite a lot of trouble with the authorities but whose company is still somehow alive and kicking, and still publicly traded. Nikola, the company reported on Wednesday, sold 66 trucks in the second quarter of 2023,…