The development brings a close to a challenging journey, which included numerous leadership changes, choppy sales and a plummeting share value
Nikola Corp produced 133 trucks and delivered 20 vehicles to dealerships.
His move comes less than two weeks after a sharply critical report of Nikola brought the startup in the radar of the United States regulators.
Trevor Milton, founder of US electric truck-maker Nikola Corporation, distributed six million shares owned by him, as part of an option award to the first few employees