Milton told U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in court papers that the juror's Twitter and Facebook pages were "riddled with attacks on wealthy executives"
The company is one of the many EV startups struggling to launch its products as a bleak global growth outlook and a funding squeeze dented production schedules and compounded losses.
The European Union ban on imports of Russia's seaborne oil from Dec. 5 has driven Moscow to seek alternative markets, mainly in Asia, for about 1 million barrels per day.