−Removed: As a smaller reporting company,
−Removed: we are not required to make disclosures under this Item.
−Removed: Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in
−Removed: this Annual Report are any of the risks described in the Prospectus, the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 21,
−Removed: 2023, and the Form S-4.
−Removed: Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or
+Added: You should consider carefully
+Added: the following risk factors, as well as the other information set forth in this report, including our consolidated financial statements
+Added: and the notes thereto.
+Added: The following discussion of risk factors includes forward-looking statements and our actual results may differ
+Added: substantially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements.
+Added: See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”
+Added: The disclosures of a risk should not be interpreted to imply that such risk has not already materialized.
+Added: Additional risks not currently
+Added: known to us or that we currently believe are immaterial may also impair our business, financial condition, results of operations and
+Added: The occurrence of any of the events or developments described below could materially and adversely affect our business, financial
+Added: condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
+Added: In such an event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you
+Added: may lose all or part of your investment.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, references in these risk factors to our business being harmed will
+Added: include harm to our business, reputation, brand, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.
+Added: Risks Related to Thunder Power’s Business and
+Added: Our limited operating
+Added: history makes evaluating our business and future prospects difficult and may increase the risk of your investment.
+Added: We are an early-stage company
+Added: with a limited operating history, operating in a rapidly evolving and highly regulated market.
+Added: Furthermore, we have not released any
+Added: commercially available product, and we have no experience manufacturing or selling a commercial product at scale.
+Added: Because we have not
+Added: generated revenue, and as a result of the capital-intensive nature of our business, we expect to continue to incur substantial operating
+Added: losses for the foreseeable future.
+Added: We have encountered and
+Added: expect to continue to encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by early-stage companies in rapidly changing markets,
+Added: including risks relating to our ability to, among other things:
+Added: hire, integrate and retain
+Added: professional and technical talent, including key members of management;
+Added: continue to make significant
+Added: investments in research, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales;
+Added: successfully obtain, maintain,
+Added: protect and enforce our intellectual property and defend against claims of intellectual property infringement, misappropriation or
+Added: other violation;
+Added: build a well-recognized and
+Added: respected brand;
+Added: establish, refine and scale
+Added: our commercial manufacturing capabilities and distribution infrastructure;
+Added: establish and maintain
+Added: satisfactory arrangements with third-party suppliers;
+Added: establish and expand a
+Added: customer base;
+Added: navigate an evolving and
+Added: complex regulatory environment;
+Added: anticipate and adapt to
+Added: changing market conditions, including consumer demand for certain vehicle types, models or trim levels, technological developments
+Added: and changes in competitive landscape;
+Added: successfully design, build,
+Added: manufacture and market new variants and models of electric vehicles.
+Added: You must consider the risks
+Added: and difficulties we face as an early stage company with a limited operating history.
+Added: If we do not successfully address these risks, our
+Added: business, prospects, operating results and financial condition will be materially and adversely harmed.
+Added: We have a very limited operating
+Added: history on which investors can base an evaluation of our business, operating results and prospects.
+Added: There are no assurances that we will
+Added: be able to secure future business with potential customers.
+Added: As an early stage company, it is difficult to predict our future revenues
+Added: and appropriately budget for our expenses, and we have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our business.
+Added: that actual results differ from our estimates or we adjust our estimates in future periods, our operating results and financial position
+Added: could be materially affected.
+Added: Our performance and expectations depend on the successful implementation of management’s growth strategies
+Added: and are based on assumptions and events over which we have only partial or no control, including, but not limited to, adverse economic
+Added: conditions, regulatory developments, our ability to finance our contemplated operations, difficulties in engineering, delays in designs
+Added: or materials provided by the customer or a third party, equipment and materials delivery delays, schedule changes, customer scope changes,
+Added: delays related to obtaining regulatory permits and rights-of-way, inability to find adequate sources of labor in the locations where
+Added: we are building new plants, weather-related delays, delays by customers’ contractors in completing their portion of a project,
+Added: technical or transportation difficulties, cost overruns, supply difficulties, geopolitical risks and other factors.
+Added: The assumptions underlying
+Added: our expectations require the exercise of judgment and may not occur, and the expectations are subject to uncertainty due to the effects
+Added: of economic, business, competitive, regulatory, legislative, and political or other changes.
+Added: The success of our business may depend
+Added: on attracting prospective customers and retaining sufficient capital to commence mass production.
+Added: If we are unable to do so, we may not
+Added: be able to achieve profitability.
+Added: We currently do not have
+Added: any customers that our business depends upon, and our success depends, in large part, on attracting prospective customers and retaining
+Added: sufficient capital to commence mass production.
+Added: We expect to incur significant and sustained marketing expenses to attract prospective
+Added: In addition, if our prospective customers perceive our vehicles and services as lacking in quality, value, cost competitiveness
+Added: with vehicles from other manufacturers, performance or aesthetic appeal, we may not be able to attract customers.
+Added: If, for any of these
+Added: reasons, we are unable to attract, or to build and maintain a strong customer base, our business, prospects, financial condition, results
+Added: of operations, and cash flows may be materially harmed.
+Added: If we fail to implement
+Added: our business strategy, our financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
+Added: Our future financial performance
+Added: and success depend in large part on our ability to successfully implement our business strategy.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we will be
+Added: able to successfully implement our business strategy or be able to improve our operating results.
+Added: In particular, we cannot assure you
+Added: that we will successfully negotiate and sign contracts with customers and suppliers nor can we assure you that we will be able to successfully
+Added: execute our contracts if signed.
+Added: Implementation of our business strategy may be impacted by factors outside of our control, including
+Added: competition, price fluctuations, industry, legal and regulatory changes or developments and general economic and political conditions.
+Added: Any failure to successfully implement our business strategy could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We may, in addition, decide to alter or discontinue certain aspects of our business strategy at any time.
+Added: We have incurred net losses each year since
+Added: our inception and expect to incur increasing expenses and substantial losses for the foreseeable future.
+Added: We have no operating history
+Added: in the electric vehicle market and have never generated revenue from product sales.
+Added: Since inception, we have incurred significant net
+Added: We anticipate our losses will increase substantially as we:
+Added: Continue designing and
+Added: developing our vehicles
+Added: Establish manufacturing
+Added: Build our brand and marketing
+Added: Develop our distribution
+Added: infrastructure
+Added: Invest in research and
+Added: Given the significant capital
+Added: required to bring our products to market, we expect to continue incurring substantial losses for the foreseeable future.
+Added: assurance that we will ever achieve or sustain profitability.
+Added: Our lack of operating history in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving
+Added: industry makes evaluating our business and future prospects difficult.
+Added: We face all the risks and uncertainties of an early-stage company
+Added: in a complex, capital-intensive industry.
+Added: If we fail to successfully address these risks and uncertainties, our business, financial condition,
+Added: and results of operations will be materially harmed.
+Added: If our product development
+Added: or commercialization of vehicles is delayed, our costs and expenses may be significantly higher than we currently expect.
+Added: will incur the costs and expenses from these efforts before we receive any incremental revenues with respect thereto, we expect our losses
+Added: in future periods will be significant.
+Added: Our business model has yet to be tested
+Added: and any failure to commercialize our strategic plans would have an adverse effect on our operating results and business, harm our reputation
+Added: and could result in substantial liabilities that exceed our resources.
+Added: Investors should be aware
+Added: of the difficulties normally encountered by an early stage enterprise, many of which are beyond our control, including substantial risks
+Added: and expenses in the course of establishing or entering new markets, organizing operations and undertaking marketing activities.
+Added: The likelihood
+Added: of our success must be considered in light of these risks, expenses, complications, delays and the competitive environment in which we
+Added: There is, therefore, nothing at this time upon which to base an assumption that our business plan will prove successful, and
+Added: we may not be able to generate significant revenue, raise additional capital or operate profitably.
+Added: We will continue to encounter risks
+Added: and difficulties frequently experienced by early commercial stage companies, including scaling up our infrastructure and headcount, and
+Added: may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties or delays in connection with our growth.
+Added: In addition, as a result of the capital-intensive nature
+Added: of our business, we can be expected to continue to sustain substantial operating expenses and may not generate sufficient revenues to
+Added: cover expenditures.
+Added: Any investment in our company is therefore highly speculative and could result in the loss of your entire investment.
+Added: We may have difficulty managing growth
+Added: in our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability
+Added: to execute its business plan in a timely fashion.
+Added: Because of our small size,
+Added: growth in accordance with our business plans, if achieved, may place a significant strain on our financial, technical, operational and
+Added: management resources.
+Added: If we expand our activities, developments and production, and increase the number of projects we are evaluating
+Added: or in which we participate, there will be additional demands on our financial, technical and management resources.
+Added: The failure to continue
+Added: to upgrade our technical, administrative, operating and financial control systems or the occurrence of unexpected expansion difficulties
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to execute our business
+Added: plan in a timely fashion.
+Added: We intend to hire a significant
+Added: number of additional personnel, including design and manufacturing personnel and service technicians for our vehicles.
+Added: Because our vehicles
+Added: are based on a different technology platform than traditional internal combustion engines, individuals with sufficient training in electric
+Added: vehicles may not be available to hire, and as a result, we will need to expend significant time and expense training the personnel we
+Added: Competition for individuals with experience designing, engineering, manufacturing and servicing electric vehicles is intense,
+Added: and we may not be able to identify, attract, integrate, train, motivate or retain additional highly qualified personnel in the future.
+Added: The failure to identify, attract, integrate, train, motivate and retain these additional personnel could seriously harm our business
+Added: and prospects.
+Added: If we are unable to grant equity awards, or if we are forced to reduce the value of equity awards we grant due to shortage
+Added: of shares available for issuance under our 2024 Omnibus Equity Inventive Plan, we may not be able to attract, hire and retain the personnel
+Added: necessary for our business, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects financial condition and results of
+Added: In addition, we have no
+Added: experience in mass manufacturing our vehicles.
+Added: We cannot assure our investors that we will be able to develop efficient, automated, low-cost manufacturing
+Added: capabilities and processes, and reliable sources of component supply that will enable us to meet the quality, price, engineering, design
+Added: and production standards, as well as the production volumes, required to successfully market our vehicles.
+Added: Any failure to develop such
+Added: manufacturing processes and capabilities within our projected costs and timelines could stunt our future growth and impair our ability
+Added: to produce, market, service and sell or lease our vehicles successfully.
+Added: In addition, our success is substantially dependent upon the
+Added: continued service and performance of our senior management team and key technical and vehicle management personnel.
+Added: If any key personnel
+Added: were to terminate their employment with us, such termination would likely increase the difficulty of managing our future growth and heighten
+Added: the foregoing risks.
+Added: If we fail to manage our growth effectively, such failure could result in negative publicity and damage to our brand
+Added: and have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: The proceeds received in the Business Combination
+Added: will only fund operations for a limited time and we will need to obtain additional financing to continue operations and execute our business
+Added: If we are unable to obtain such financing, we may be unable to complete the development and commercialization of our products
+Added: and services.
+Added: Our operations have consumed
+Added: substantial amounts of cash since inception.
+Added: The net losses of Thunder Power Holdings Limited were $2.50 and $1.82 million for the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: We anticipate that our future cash requirements will continue to be significant and
+Added: we will need to obtain additional financing beyond that being provided by the Business Combination to implement our business plan as described
+Added: in this prospectus.
+Added: Specifically, we may need to raise additional funds to complete the research and development, testing, manufacturing,
+Added: marketing, and shipping of our vehicles, as well as to support the continued research and development of our vehicles and the development
+Added: of other models, and to build contingencies for unforeseen events.
+Added: Such financings could include equity financing, which may be dilutive
+Added: to stockholders, or debt financing, which would likely restrict our ability to borrow from other sources.
+Added: In addition, such securities
+Added: may contain rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of the rights of the stockholders of the Company upon the closing thereof.
+Added: Additional funds may not be available when we need them, on terms attractive to us, or at all.
+Added: If adequate funds are not
+Added: available on a timely basis, we may be required to curtail the development of our technology, products or services, or materially delay,
+Added: curtail, reduce or terminate our research and development and commercialization activities.
+Added: We could be forced to sell or dispose of
+Added: our rights or assets.
+Added: Any inability to raise adequate funds on commercially reasonable terms could have a material adverse effect on
+Added: our business, financial condition, results of operation and prospects, including the possibility that a lack of funds could cause our
+Added: business to fail and liquidate with little or no return to investors.
+Added: Thunder Power’s management has limited experience in operating
+Added: a public company.
+Added: Thunder Power’s management
+Added: has limited experience in the management of a publicly traded company.
+Added: Thunder Power’s management team may not successfully or
+Added: effectively manage its transition to a public company that will be subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations
+Added: federal securities laws.
+Added: Their limited experience in dealing with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies
+Added: could be a significant disadvantage in that it is likely that an increasing amount of their time may be devoted to these activities which
+Added: will result in less time being devoted to the management and growth of the post-combination company.
+Added: Thunder Power may not have
+Added: adequate personnel with the appropriate level of knowledge, experience and training in the accounting policies, practices or internal
+Added: control over financial reporting required of public companies in the U.S.
+Added: Any fault in Thunder Power’s finance and accounting
+Added: systems could impact its ability or prevent it from timely reporting its operating results, timely filing required reports with the SEC
+Added: and complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”).
+Added: development and implementation of the standards and controls necessary for Thunder Power to achieve the level of accounting standards
+Added: required of a public company in the U.S.
+Added: may require costs greater than expected.
+Added: It is possible that Thunder Power will be required
+Added: to expand its employee base and hire additional employees to support its operations as a public company which will increase its operating
+Added: costs in future periods.
+Added: We are actively negotiating with our affiliates
+Added: to license the intellectual property and technology rights at the core of our business plan, and our inability to obtain and maintain
+Added: these licenses could materially affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
+Added: Our entire business model
+Added: depends on intellectual property we do not own.
+Added: We are actively negotiating with our affiliates to license critical intellectual property
+Added: and technology rights that form the core of our business plan.
+Added: As of the date of this prospectus, we have not secured any licensing agreements.
+Added: If we fail to obtain these licenses on favorable terms, or at all, our ability to develop, manufacture, and sell our products would be
+Added: severely compromised, potentially rendering our business model unviable.
+Added: Even if we secure these licenses, we may face challenges in
+Added: maintaining them, or the licenses may be terminated, significantly impacting our operations.
+Added: Our lack of direct ownership of key patents
+Added: and technologies exposes us to substantial risk and uncertainty regarding our ability to execute our business strategy.
+Added: If we are unable to maintain
+Added: our planned license agreements, our ability to continue developing, designing, manufacturing, distributing, and selling our products
+Added: would be limited and may require us to stop operations entirely.
+Added: If any such future license agreement is terminated for any reason, we
+Added: may be forced to acquire or develop alternative technology, which we may be unable to do in a commercially feasible manner, if at all,
+Added: and may require us to use alternative technology of lower quality or performance standards.
+Added: This would, in turn, limit, delay or disrupt
+Added: our ability to offer new or competitive products and could also increase our costs, which would adversely affect our margins, market
+Added: share, business, financial condition, and operating results.
+Added: The obligations associated with being a
+Added: public company involve significant expenses and require significant resources and management attention, which may divert from our business
+Added: As a public company, we
+Added: are subject to the ongoing reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
+Added: The Exchange Act requires the
+Added: filing of annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business and financial condition.
+Added: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires,
+Added: among other things, that we establish and maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: As a result, we have and expect
+Added: to continue to incur significant legal, accounting, and other expenses that Thunder Power did not incur prior to the Business Combination.
+Added: For example, these rules and regulations may make it more difficult or more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability
+Added: insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same
+Added: or similar coverage.
+Added: Additionally, our officers and many of our other employees may need to devote substantial time and attention to
+Added: regulatory compliance which may divert their time and attention from our business operations.
+Added: The inability to attract and retain qualified
+Added: personnel may adversely impact our business.
+Added: If we fail to attract, hire
+Added: and retain qualified personnel, we may not be able to develop, market or sell our products or successfully manage our business.
+Added: dependent upon a highly skilled, experienced and efficient workforce to be successful.
+Added: The inability to attract and hire qualified individuals
+Added: or the loss of key employees in very skilled areas could have a negative effect on our financial results.
+Added: Uninsured losses could result in payment
+Added: of substantial damages, which would decrease our cash reserves and could harm our cash flow and financial condition.
+Added: In the ordinary course of
+Added: business, we may be subject to losses resulting from product liability, accidents, acts of God and other claims against us, for which
+Added: we may have no insurance coverage.
+Added: While we currently carry insurance that is customary for our size and operations, we may not maintain
+Added: as much insurance coverage as other original equipment manufacturers do, and in some cases, we may not maintain any at all.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the policies that we have may include significant deductibles, and we cannot be certain that our insurance coverage will be sufficient
+Added: to cover all or any future claims against us.
+Added: A loss that is uninsured or exceeds policy limits may require us to pay substantial amounts,
+Added: which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Further, insurance coverage may not continue to be available
+Added: to us or, if available, may be at a significantly higher cost, especially if insurance providers perceive any increase in our risk profile
+Added: in the future.
+Added: Our strategy to outsource various elements
+Added: of the products and services we sell may subject us to the business risks of our future third-party service providers, which could have
+Added: a material adverse impact on our operations.
+Added: In areas where we will depend
+Added: on third-party service providers for retail product distribution and full-service networks, we will be subject to the risk of customer
+Added: dissatisfaction with the quality or performance of the products or services we sell due to third-party service provider’s failure.
+Added: Third-party service providers may not have the same incentives we do and may not allocate adequate or sufficient time and/or resources
+Added: for performing services for us.
+Added: In addition, business difficulties experienced by a third-party service provider could lead to the
+Added: interruption of our ability to distribute products or provide services and ultimately our inability to supply products or services to
+Added: our customers.
+Added: Third-party service provider business interruptions may include, but are not limited to, work stoppages, union negotiations
+Added: and other labor disputes.
+Added: Current or future economic conditions could also impact the ability of third-party service providers to access
+Added: credit and, thus, impair their ability to provide us quality services in a timely manner, or at all.
+Added: Our business and prospects will depend
+Added: significantly on our brand.
+Added: Our business and prospects
+Added: will heavily depend on our ability to develop, maintain and strengthen the “Thunder Power” brand association with luxury
+Added: and technological excellence.
+Added: Promoting and positioning our brand will likely depend significantly on our ability to provide a consistently
+Added: high-quality customer experience, an area in which we have limited experience.
+Added: To promote our brand, we will be required to invest
+Added: in, and over time we may be required to change our customer development and branding practices, which could result in substantially increased
+Added: expenses, including the need to use traditional media such as television, radio and print advertising.
+Added: Our ability to successfully position
+Added: our brand could also be adversely affected by perceptions about the quality of our competitors’ vehicles or our competitors’
+Added: For example, certain of our competitors have been subject to significant scrutiny for incidents involving their self-driving technology
+Added: and battery fires, which could result in similar scrutiny of us.
+Added: In particular, any negative
+Added: publicity, whether or not true, can quickly proliferate on social media and harm consumer perception and confidence in our brand.
+Added: growing use of social media increases the speed with which information and opinions can be shared and, thus, the speed with which a company’s
+Added: reputation can be affected.
+Added: If we fail to correct or mitigate misinformation or negative information, including information spread through
+Added: social media or traditional media channels, about us, the products we offer, our customer experience, or any aspect of our brand, our
+Added: business, sales and results of operations could be adversely impacted.
+Added: From time to time, our vehicles or those of our competitors may
+Added: be evaluated and reviewed by third parties.
+Added: Perceptions of our offerings in the marketplace may be significantly influenced by these
+Added: reviews, which are disseminated via various media, including the internet.
+Added: Any negative reviews or reviews which compare us unfavorably
+Added: to competitors could adversely affect consumer perception about our vehicles and reduce demand for our vehicles, which could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our business, results of operations, prospects and financial condition.
+Added: Risks Related to Regulation and Litigation
+Added: The SEC and other parties may find that
+Added: Thunder Power’s public-relations information before the production on any of our EVs may have misled investors or conditioned
+Added: the market for investors or that we may have omitted to provide information that investors may reasonably find important to their investment
+Added: There is always a risk against
+Added: making false claims about the prospects of an EV technology company.
+Added: One such notable case was United States of America v.
+Added: 21-00478, U.S.
+Added: District Court, Southern District of New York, 21 Cr.
+Added: 478 (ER) (“ Nikola” ).
+Added: Nikola involved an electric truck maker who the SEC alleged in 2020-2021 defrauded its investors with false claims
+Added: about its EV technology.
+Added: In a cease-and-desist order against Nikola and the subsequent case S.E.C.
+Added: (AKH), the SEC said that Trevor Milton (“Milton”), the founder and one-time chairperson of Nikola, lied to inflate stock
+Added: prices during the company’s public-relations campaign to investors by making forward-looking statements since the company
+Added: had not yet produced a single vehicle.
+Added: Other misleading and forward-looking statements included claims about Nikola’s technological
+Added: advancements, in-house production capabilities, hydrogen production, truck reservations and orders, financial outlook, refueling
+Added: time, and a potential partnership with a globally known car maker.
+Added: Several electric vehicle prototypes of the Sedan and City Car were
+Added: built by TongGao Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Taicang) Co.
+Added: Ltd, an affiliate of Thunder Power.
+Added: There prototypes were built for
+Added: the purpose of showcasing Thunder Power’s technology and for early fundraising purpose.
+Added: Thunder Power has not produced a single
+Added: electric vehicle and all our statements in this prospectus regarding our production capabilities, technologies, weight, charging time,
+Added: driving range and potential partnerships are forecasts or forward-looking statements based on our own beliefs, opinions, and internal
+Added: research, development and testing.
+Added: Some of our directors, officers and assets
+Added: reside or be located outside of the United States, which may cause investors difficulty in enforcing judgments against our directors
+Added: and officers.
+Added: Some of our directors and
+Added: officers reside outside the United States and a majority of our assets are located outside the United States.
+Added: it may be difficult or impossible to effect service of process within the United States upon these directors and officers, or to
+Added: recover against those persons on judgments of United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions
+Added: of the United States federal securities laws.
+Added: Moreover, it is not certain that a court in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong,
+Added: or Taiwan would award damages on the same basis as a United States court, or that a British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, or Taiwanese
+Added: court would enforce foreign judgments if it viewed the amount of damages as excessive or inconsistent with local practice or public policy.
+Added: Further, the United States
+Added: may not be declared by the Government of other countries to be a reciprocating territory for the purposes of enforcement of foreign judgments,
+Added: and there are grounds upon which British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, or Taiwan courts may decline to enforce the judgments of United States
+Added: Some remedies available under the laws of the United States, including remedies available under the United States federal
+Added: securities laws, may not be allowed in British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, or Taiwan courts if deemed contrary to public policy in
+Added: such jurisdictions.
+Added: Our affiliated parties such as our major
+Added: shareholders may be involved in governmental investigations and civil litigation relating to the business affairs of companies with which
+Added: they are, were or may in the future be affiliated with.
+Added: Our controlling shareholder,
+Added: Wellen Sham, is currently the defendant in significant legal proceedings that could materially impact our business.
+Added: criminal prosecution in Taiwan on 11 indictments related to securities violations, breaches of fiduciary duty, and other financial matters.
+Added: Additionally, he is subject to multiple civil actions seeking his dismissal as chairman of a related company and claiming damages for
+Added: While these proceedings do not directly involve our company, they create substantial risks, including:
+Added: reputational damage affecting our ability to secure partnerships, investments, and customer
+Added: Sham’s attention from our business operations;
+Added: Sham’s leadership or voting control if legal actions are successful;
+Added: in accessing capital markets or obtaining favorable terms from suppliers and partners.
+Added: Wellen Sham, Thunder
+Added: Power’s former Chief Executive Officer, is a defendant in a claim brought by the Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office
+Added: (the “Prosecutor”) in 2022.
+Added: This claim is currently being litigated in Taiwan Taipei District Court Criminal Division (Taiwan
+Added: Taipei District Court, Year 2022, Jin-Chong-Su-Zhi, No.
+Added: 19) by a public Prosecutor.
+Added: The prosecution is based on 11 indictments involving
+Added: the following:
+Added: a securities purchase which may have been a related party transaction;
+Added: the use of a non-exclusive license to offset
+Added: a debt owed to a related party;
+Added: an exclusive authorized sales agent agreement for USD 4,950,000;
+Added: an agreement for parts for an electric
+Added: four-door sedan for USD 4,480,000;
+Added: a land purchase in a non-arm’s length related party transaction;
+Added: executive control over
+Added: bonuses of USD 150,000, USD 50,000, USD 100,000, and NTD 6,000,000 from affiliates;
+Added: utilization of funds to cover all expenses associated
+Added: with a seminar hosted by Thunder Power Electric Vehicle Limited (“TPEV”);
+Added: utilization of funds to cover the salaries of employees;
+Added: and instructions to issue a false press release with the aim of disseminating rumors or misleading information (collectively, the “Criminal
+Added: Prosecution”).
+Added: In conjunction with the Criminal Prosecution, Taiwan’s Securities Investor and Futures Trader Protection Center
+Added: (“SFIPC”), based on the content of the Criminal Prosecution, initiated civil actions against Mr.
+Added: Sham, including:
+Added: Sham shall bear liability for damages incurred by EPTECH;
+Added: asserting Mr.
+Added: Sham should be dismissed from the position
+Added: of Chairman of EPTECH;
+Added: asserting that Mr.
+Added: Sham shall bear liability for damages incurred by investors of EPTECH;
+Added: and applying for
+Added: a provisional seizure procedure against Mr.
+Added: While Thunder Power is unable to predict the outcome of these matters with certainty,
+Added: in response to the foregoing accusations, Mr.
+Added: Sham sought relief by asserting his innocence, appointing a defense attorney, applying
+Added: for an investigation of favorable evidence, and actively exercising his right to defend himself.
+Added: The outcome of these legal
+Added: matters is uncertain and could have far-reaching consequences for our business strategy, operations, and future prospects.
+Added: We are subject to substantial laws and
+Added: regulations that could impose substantial costs, legal prohibitions or unfavorable changes upon our operations or products, and any failure
+Added: to comply with these laws and regulations, including as they evolve, could substantially harm our business and results of operations.
+Added: We are or will be subject
+Added: to complex environmental, manufacturing, health and safety laws and regulations at numerous jurisdictional levels, including laws relating
+Added: to the use, handling, storage, recycling, disposal and human exposure to hazardous materials and with respect to constructing, expanding
+Added: and maintaining our facilities.
+Added: The costs of compliance, including remediating contamination if any is found on our properties and any
+Added: changes to our operations mandated by new or amended laws, may be significant.
+Added: We may also face unexpected delays in obtaining permits
+Added: and approvals required by such laws in connection with our manufacturing facilities, which would hinder our ability to continue our commercial
+Added: manufacturing operations.
+Added: Such costs and delays may adversely impact our business prospects and results of operations.
+Added: Furthermore, any
+Added: violations of these laws may result in substantial fines and penalties, remediation costs, third party damages, or a suspension or cessation
+Added: of our operations.
+Added: In addition, models will
+Added: be to substantial regulation under international, federal, state and local laws.
+Added: We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur, significant
+Added: costs in complying with these regulations.
+Added: Any failures to comply could result in significant expenses, delays or fines.
+Added: In the United States,
+Added: vehicles must meet or exceed all federally mandated motor vehicle safety standards to be certified under the federal regulations.
+Added: testing and the use of approved materials and equipment are among the requirements for achieving federal certification.
+Added: Any future vehicles
+Added: will be subject to substantial regulation under federal, state and local laws and standards.
+Added: These regulations include those promulgated
+Added: Environmental Protection Agency, NHTSA, other federal agencies, various state agencies and various state boards, and
+Added: compliance certification is required for each individual vehicle we manufacture for sale.
+Added: These laws and standards are subject to change
+Added: from time to time, and we could become subject to additional regulations in the future, which would increase the effort and expense of
+Added: In addition, federal, state and local laws and industrial standards for electric vehicles are still developing, and we face
+Added: risks associated with changes to these regulations, which could have an impact on the acceptance of our electric vehicles, and increased
+Added: sensitivity by regulators to the needs of established automobile manufacturers with large employment bases, high fixed costs and business
+Added: models based on the internal combustion engine, which could lead them to pass regulations that could reduce the compliance costs of such
+Added: established manufacturers or mitigate the effects of government efforts to promote electric vehicles.
+Added: Compliance with these regulations
+Added: is challenging, burdensome, time consuming and expensive.
+Added: If compliance results in delays or substantial expenses, our business could
+Added: be adversely affected.
+Added: We also expect to become
+Added: subject to laws and regulations applicable to the supply, manufacture, import, sale and service of automobiles internationally, including
+Added: in Europe, the Middle East and China.
+Added: Applicable regulations in countries outside of the U.S., such as standards relating to vehicle
+Added: safety, fuel economy and emissions, among other things, are often materially different from requirements in the United States.
+Added: with such regulations will therefore require additional time, effort and expense to ensure regulatory compliance in those countries.
+Added: This process may include official review and certification of our vehicles by foreign regulatory agencies prior to market entry, as well
+Added: as compliance with foreign reporting and recall management systems requirements.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to achieve
+Added: foreign regulatory compliance in a timely manner and at our expected cost, or at all, and the costs of achieving international regulatory
+Added: compliance or the failure to achieve international regulatory compliance could harm our business, prospects, results of operations and
financial condition.
−Removed: Additional risk factors not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business
−Removed: or results of operations.
−Removed: As of the date of this Annual Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in the
−Removed: Prospectus or the Form S-4, except we may disclose changes to such factors or disclose additional factors from time to time in our future
−Removed: filings with the SEC.
+Added: We may have to choose in the future, or
+Added: we may be compelled, to undertake product recalls or take other actions, which could adversely affect our business, prospects, results
+Added: of operations, reputation and financial condition.
+Added: Product recalls may result
+Added: in adverse publicity, damage our reputation and adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: If a large number of vehicles are the subject of a recall or if needed replacement parts are not in adequate supply, we may be unable
+Added: to service and repair recalled vehicles for a significant period of time.
+Added: These types of disruptions could jeopardize our ability to
+Added: fulfill existing contractual commitments or satisfy demand for our electric vehicles and could also result in the loss of business to
+Added: our competitors.
+Added: Such recalls, whether caused by systems or components engineered or manufactured by us or our suppliers, would involve
+Added: significant expense and diversion of management’s attention and other resources, which could adversely affect our brand image in
+Added: our target market and our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In the future, if we develop or acquire
+Added: proprietary intellectual property, protecting such intellectual property will be critical to our operations and we may suffer competitive
+Added: harm from infringement on such rights.
+Added: If we develop or acquire
+Added: new technologies, it will be critical that we protect our intellectual property assets against third-party infringement.
+Added: If we develop
+Added: or acquire intellectual property, there is a risk that our patent applications may not be granted, or we may not receive sufficient protection
+Added: of our proprietary interests.
+Added: We may also expend considerable resources in defending any future patents against third-party infringement.
+Added: It may become critical that we protect our proprietary intellectual property interests to prevent competitive harm.
+Added: We are subject to legal proceedings, regulatory
+Added: disputes and governmental inquiries that could cause us to incur significant expenses, divert our management’s attention, and adversely
+Added: affect our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
+Added: From time to time, we may
+Added: be subject to claims, lawsuits, government investigations and other proceedings involving product liability, consumer protection, competition
+Added: and antitrust, intellectual property, privacy, securities, tax, labor and employment, health and safety, our direct distribution model,
+Added: environmental claims, commercial disputes and other matters that could adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flows
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: In the ordinary course of business, we have been the subject of complaints or litigation, including claims related
+Added: to employment matters.
+Added: Litigation and regulatory
+Added: proceedings may be protracted and expensive, and the results are difficult to predict.
+Added: Additionally, our litigation costs could be significant,
+Added: even if we achieve favorable outcomes.
+Added: Adverse outcomes with respect to litigation or any of these legal proceedings may result in significant
+Added: settlement costs or judgments, penalties and fines, or require us to modify, make temporarily unavailable or stop manufacturing or selling
+Added: our vehicles in some or all markets, all of which could negatively affect our sales and revenue growth and adversely affect our business,
+Added: prospects, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
+Added: The results of litigation,
+Added: investigations, claims and regulatory proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, and determining reserves for pending litigation
+Added: and other legal and regulatory matters requires significant judgment.
+Added: There can be no assurance that our expectations will prove correct,
+Added: and even if these matters are resolved in our favor or without significant cash settlements, these matters, and the time and resources
+Added: necessary to litigate or resolve them, could harm our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
+Added: the threat or announcement of litigation or investigations by governmental authorities or other parties, irrespective of the merits of
+Added: the underlying claims, may itself have an adverse impact on the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: We may become subject to product liability
+Added: claims, which could harm our financial condition and liquidity if we are not able to successfully defend or insure against such claims.
+Added: We may become subject to
+Added: product liability claims, which could harm our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: The automotive industry
+Added: experiences significant product liability claims, and we face inherent risks of exposure to claims in the event our production vehicles
+Added: do not perform or are claimed not to perform as expected or malfunction, resulting in property damage, personal injury or death.
+Added: expect that, as is true for other automakers, our vehicles will be involved in crashes resulting in death or personal injury, and even
+Added: if not caused by the failure of our vehicles, we may face product liability claims and adverse publicity in connection with such incidents.
+Added: In addition, we may face claims arising from or related to failures, claimed failures or misuse of new technologies that we expect to
+Added: In addition, the battery packs that we produce make use of lithium-ion cells.
+Added: On rare occasions, lithium-ion cells
+Added: can rapidly release the energy they contain by venting smoke and flames in a manner that can ignite nearby materials as well as other
+Added: lithium-ion cells.
+Added: While we have designed our battery packs to passively contain a single cell’s release of energy without
+Added: spreading to neighboring modules, there can be no assurance that a field or testing failure of our vehicles or other battery packs that
+Added: we produce will not occur, in particular due to a high-speed crash.
+Added: In addition, although we equip our vehicles with systems designed
+Added: to detect and warn vehicle occupants of such thermal events, there can be no assurance that such systems will function as designed or
+Added: will provide vehicle occupants with sufficient, or any, warning in all circumstances.
+Added: Any such events or failures of our vehicles, battery
+Added: packs or warning systems could subject us to lawsuits, product recalls or redesign efforts, all of which would be time consuming and
+Added: A successful product liability
+Added: claim against us could require us to pay a substantial monetary award.
+Added: Our risks in this area are particularly pronounced in light of
+Added: the limited field experience of our vehicles.
+Added: Moreover, a product liability claim against us or our competitors could generate substantial
+Added: negative publicity about our vehicles and business and inhibit or prevent commercialization of our future vehicles, which would have
+Added: material adverse effect on our brand, business, prospects and results of operations.
+Added: Our insurance coverage might not be sufficient to
+Added: cover all potential product liability claims, and insurance coverage may not continue to be available to us or, if available, may be
+Added: at a significantly higher cost.
+Added: Any lawsuit seeking significant monetary damages or other product liability claims may have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our reputation, business and financial condition.
+Added: We may be exposed to delays, limitations
+Added: and risks related to the environmental permits and other operating permits required to establish or operate our manufacturing facilities.
+Added: Operation of an automobile
+Added: manufacturing facility requires land use and environmental permits and other operating permits from federal, state and local government
+Added: We believe that we will have the permits necessary to carry out and perform our current plans and operations at our future
+Added: US manufacturing facilities based on our current targeted production capacity.
+Added: We plan to build our manufacturing facilities and construct
+Added: additional manufacturing facilities over time to achieve a future target production capacity and will be required to apply for and secure
+Added: various environmental, wastewater, and land use permits and certificates of occupancy necessary for the commercial operation of such
+Added: expanded and additional facilities.
+Added: Delays, denials or restrictions on any of the applications for or assignment of the permits to operate
+Added: our manufacturing facilities could adversely affect our ability to execute on our business plans and objectives based on our current
+Added: target production capacity or our future target production capacity.
+Added: We are subject to various environmental,
+Added: health and safety laws and regulations that could impose substantial costs on us and cause delays in building and subsequently expanding
+Added: our production facilities.
+Added: Our operations are subject
+Added: to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and will be subject to international environmental laws, including laws
+Added: relating to the use, handling, storage, disposal of and human exposure to hazardous materials.
+Added: Environmental, health and safety laws
+Added: and regulations are complex, and we have limited experience complying with them.
+Added: Moreover, we may be affected by future amendments to
+Added: such laws or other new environmental, health and safety laws and regulations which may require us to change our operations, potentially
+Added: resulting in a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: These laws can give
+Added: rise to liability for administrative oversight costs, cleanup costs, property damage, bodily injury, fines and penalties.
+Added: operating expenses needed to comply with environmental laws and regulations can be significant, and violations could result in substantial
+Added: fines and penalties, third-party damages, suspension of production or a cessation of our operations.
+Added: Contamination at properties
+Added: we own or operate, properties we formerly owned or operated or properties to which we sent hazardous substances may result in liability
+Added: for us under environmental laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
+Added: and Liability Act, which can impose liability for the full amount of remediation-related costs without regard to fault, for the
+Added: investigation and cleanup of contaminated soil and ground water, for building contamination and impacts to human health and for damages
+Added: to natural resources.
+Added: The costs of complying with environmental laws and regulations and any claims concerning noncompliance, or liability
+Added: with respect to contamination in the future, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Our operations are also
+Added: subject to federal, state, and local workplace safety laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Occupational Health and
+Added: Safety Act, which require compliance with various workplace safety requirements, including requirements related to environmental safety.
+Added: These laws and regulations can give rise to liability for oversight costs, compliance costs, bodily injury (including workers’
+Added: compensation), fines, and penalties.
+Added: Additionally, non-compliance could
+Added: result in delay or suspension of production or cessation of operations.
+Added: The costs required to comply with workplace safety laws can be
+Added: significant, and non-compliance could adversely affect our production or other operations, including with respect to the production
+Added: of our first models, the Coupe and the City Car, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects and results of
+Added: We are subject to risks associated with autonomous driving and
+Added: advanced driver assistance system technology, and we cannot guarantee that our vehicles will achieve our targeted assisted or autonomous
+Added: driving functionality within our projected timeframe, if ever.
+Added: Our vehicles are designed
+Added: with a modularized chassis system.
+Added: This approach contrasts with the normal industry practice for internal combustion engine manufacturers
+Added: (“ICE”), where other components, such as the engine, gearbox, and fuel tank, need to be taken into consideration before styling
+Added: can be completed.
+Added: The modular chassis allows a much simpler solution for the chassis design, thereby reducing development time and cost
+Added: with new vehicle development.
+Added: Additionally, vehicle stiffness/rigidity is enhanced, and weight is reduced in comparison to the weight
+Added: of other electric vehicles.
+Added: Advanced Driver Assistance
+Added: Systems (“ADAS”) technologies are emerging and becoming increasingly common in electric vehicles.
+Added: ADAS is subject to known
+Added: and unknown risks, and there have been accidents and fatalities associated with such technologies.
+Added: The safety of such technologies depends
+Added: in part on user interaction, and users, as well as other drivers on the roadways, may not be accustomed to using or adapting to such
+Added: technologies.
+Added: In addition, self-driving technologies are the subject of intense public scrutiny and interest, and previous accidents
+Added: involving autonomous driving features in other vehicles, including alleged failures or misuse of such features, have generated significant
+Added: negative media attention and government investigations.
+Added: We and others in our industry are subject to a Standing General Order issued
+Added: by NHTSA that requires us to report any crashes in which certain ADAS features were active, and these crash reports will become publicly
+Added: To the extent accidents associated with our ADAS technologies occur, we could be subject to significant liability, negative
+Added: publicity, government scrutiny and further regulation.
+Added: Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our results of operations,
+Added: financial condition and growth prospects.
+Added: In addition, we face substantial
+Added: competition in the development and deployment of ADAS technologies.
+Added: Many of our competitors, including established automakers and technology
+Added: companies, have devoted significant time and resources to developing self-driving technologies.
+Added: If we are unable to develop competitive
+Added: Level 2 or more advanced ADAS technologies in-house or acquire access to such technologies via partnerships or investments in other
+Added: companies or assets, we may be unable to equip our vehicles with competitive ADAS features, which could damage our brand, reduce consumer
+Added: demand for our vehicles or trigger cancellations of reservations and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of
+Added: operations, prospects and financial condition.
+Added: ADAS technology is also
+Added: subject to considerable regulatory uncertainty, which exposes us to additional risks.
+Added: We face risks associated with international
+Added: operations, including unfavorable regulatory, political, tax and labor conditions, which could harm our business.
+Added: We anticipate having operations
+Added: in the United States, Europe and distributions in the United States, European and Asian markets, each that which may be subject
+Added: to the legal, political, regulatory and social requirements and economic conditions in these jurisdictions.
+Added: We are subject to a number
+Added: of risks associated with international business activities that may increase our costs, impact our ability to sell, service and manufacture
+Added: our vehicles, and require significant management attention.
+Added: These risks include:
+Added: our vehicles to various international regulatory requirements where our vehicles are sold, or homologation;
+Added: ● establishing
+Added: localized supply chains and managing international supply chain and logistics costs;
+Added: ● establishing
+Added: sufficient charging points for our customers in those jurisdictions, via partnerships or,
+Added: if necessary, via development of our own charging networks;
+Added: in staffing and managing foreign operations;
+Added: ● difficulties
+Added: attracting customers in new jurisdictions;
+Added: ● difficulties
+Added: establishing international manufacturing operations, including difficulties establishing
+Added: relationships with or establishing localized supplier bases and developing cost-effective and
+Added: reliable supply chains for such manufacturing operations and financing such manufacturing
+Added: government taxes, regulations and permit requirements;
+Added: as well as fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates, including
+Added: risks related to any forward currency contracts, interest rate swaps or other hedging activities
+Added: we undertake;
+Added: ● United States
+Added: and foreign government trade restrictions, tariffs and price or exchange controls;
+Added: labor laws, regulations and restrictions;
+Added: data privacy and security laws, regulations and obligations;
+Added: in diplomatic and trade relationships, including political risk and customer perceptions
+Added: based on such changes and risks;
+Added: instability, natural disasters, pandemics, war or events of terrorism;
+Added: strength of international economies.
+Added: If we fail to successfully
+Added: address these risks, our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition could be materially harmed.
+Added: Increasing scrutiny and changing expectations
+Added: from global regulations, our investors, customers and personnel with respect to our ESG practices may impose additional costs on us or
+Added: expose us to new or additional risks.
+Added: There is increased focus,
+Added: including from governmental organizations and investors, customers and personnel, on ESG issues such as environmental stewardship, climate
+Added: change, diversity and inclusion, racial justice and workplace conduct.
+Added: There can be no certainty that we will manage such issues successfully,
+Added: or that we will successfully meet society’s expectations as to our proper role.
+Added: Negative public perception, adverse publicity or
+Added: negative comments in social media could damage our reputation if we do not, or are not perceived to, adequately address these issues.
+Added: Any harm to our reputation could impact our personnel’s engagement and retention and the willingness of our customers and partners
+Added: to do business with us.
+Added: It is possible that our
+Added: stakeholders may not be satisfied with our ESG practices, or the speed of their adoption and our systems may not be adequate to meet
+Added: increasing global regulations on ESG topics.
+Added: Actual or perceived shortcomings with respect to our ESG initiatives and reporting could
+Added: negatively impact our business.
+Added: We could also incur additional costs and require additional resources to monitor, report, and comply
+Added: with various ESG practices.
+Added: In addition, a variety of organizations have developed ratings to measure the performance of companies on
+Added: ESG topics, and the results of these assessments are widely publicized.
+Added: Investment in funds that specialize in companies that perform
+Added: well in such assessments are increasingly popular, and major institutional investors have publicly emphasized the importance of such
+Added: ESG measures to their investment decisions.
+Added: Unfavorable ratings of our company or our industries, as well as non-inclusion of our
+Added: stock on ESG-oriented investment funds, may lead to negative investor sentiment and the diversion of investment to other companies
+Added: or industries, which could have a negative impact on our stock price.
+Added: In addition, due to the
+Added: impacts of climate change, there are increasing risks to our business, including physical risks such as wildfires, floods, tornadoes
+Added: or other events, that could cause disruptions to our supply chain, manufacturing, and corporate functions.
+Added: We may incur additional costs
+Added: and resources preparing for and addressing such risks.
+Added: Various states’ automobile manufacturer
+Added: and dealer regulations may limit Thunder Power’s ability to implement its business model for the sale of the Coupe and for the
+Added: servicing of its entire family of EVs in the U.S.
+Added: In the United States,
+Added: state laws regulate the manufacture, distribution, sale and service of automobiles, and generally require motor vehicle manufacturers
+Added: and dealers to be licensed in order to sell vehicles directly to residents.
+Added: Certain states do not permit automobile manufacturers to
+Added: be licensed as dealers or to act in the capacity of a dealer, or otherwise restrict a manufacturer’s ability to deliver or service
+Added: To sell vehicles to residents of states where Thunder Power is not licensed as a dealer, Thunder Power expects to conduct the
+Added: transfer of title out of the state.
+Added: In certain such states, Thunder Power expects to open Studios that serve an educational purpose and
+Added: where the title transfer may not occur.
+Added: Some automobile dealer trade
+Added: associations may challenge the legality of Thunder Power’s operations and direct selling operations by OEMs in court and may use
+Added: administrative and legislative processes to attempt to prohibit or limit such original equipment manufacturers’ (“OEMs”)
+Added: ability to operate existing stores or expand to new locations.
+Added: Certain dealer associations may also actively lobbied state licensing
+Added: agencies and legislators to interpret existing laws or enact new laws in ways not favorable to Thunder Power’s planned direct sales
+Added: and service model.
+Added: Thunder Power expects dealer trade associations to continue to lobby state licensing agencies and legislators to interpret
+Added: existing laws or enact new laws in ways not favorable to its business model;
+Added: however, Thunder Power intends to oppose such efforts to
+Added: limit its ability to operate and intends to proactively support legislation that enables its business model.
+Added: Should Thunder Power not
+Added: be allowed to develop relationships with the largest multi-brand and high-end brand dealers in the U.S.
+Added: it would be difficult
+Added: for it as a newcomer to the U.S.
+Added: EV market to gain a foothold in the U.S.
+Added: Thunder Power recognizes that its best strategy for
+Added: market penetration is to align itself with a U.S.
+Added: dealership network, especially for sale of the Coupe, and the eventual servicing
+Added: of its family of EVs.
+Added: If Thunder Power is successful
+Added: in building out its business model without limitations from legislations, trade associations or lobbyist, it may be able to explore having
+Added: a relationship with one of the large service providers for EVs in the U.S.
+Added: This potential partner currently maintains 1,000 technicians,
+Added: 750 mobile service trucks and 24/7 call centers for warranty and service processing.
+Added: This potential partner is currently servicing reputable
+Added: BYD commercial vehicles.
+Added: In addition, a sister company of this potential partner specializes in and is the leading full-service provider
+Added: of repair/remanufacture, storage, distribution and logistics, first life extension and recycling services on the entire battery life
+Added: Together these two companies are subsidiaries of a large $21 billion revenue privately held company in the U.S.
+Added: would offer great potential to Thunder Power should the service segment of Thunder Power’s business model materializes.
+Added: Power has not entered into any formal discussions or negotiations with this potential partner and there is no guarantee that Thunder
+Added: Power will ever do so.
+Added: ADAS technology is subject to uncertain
+Added: and evolving regulations.
+Added: We expect to introduce certain
+Added: ADAS technologies into our vehicles over time.
+Added: ADAS technology is subject to considerable regulatory uncertainty as the law evolves to
+Added: catch up with the rapidly evolving nature of the technology itself, all of which is beyond our control.
+Added: There is a variety of international,
+Added: federal and state regulations that may apply to self-driving and driver-assisted vehicles, which include many existing vehicle
+Added: standards that assume a human driver will be controlling the vehicle at all times.
+Added: There are currently no federal U.S.
+Added: pertaining to the safety of self-driving vehicles;
+Added: however, NHTSA has established recommended guidelines.
+Added: Certain states have legal
+Added: restrictions on self-driving vehicles, and many other states are considering them.
+Added: In Europe, certain vehicle safety regulations
+Added: apply to self-driving braking and steering systems, and certain treaties also restrict the legality of certain higher levels of
+Added: self-driving vehicles.
+Added: Self-driving laws and regulations are expected to continue to evolve in numerous jurisdictions in the
+Added: United States and foreign countries, which increases the likelihood of a patchwork of complex or conflicting regulations or may
+Added: delay products or restrict self-driving features and availability, which could adversely affect our business.
+Added: Our vehicles may not
+Added: achieve compliance with the regulatory requirements in some countries or jurisdictions for certification and rollout to consumers or
+Added: satisfy changing regulatory requirements which could require us to redesign, modify or update our ADAS hardware and related software
+Added: Any such requirements or limitations could impose significant expense or delays and could harm our competitive position, which
+Added: could adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Our auditor, Assentsure PAC, is headquartered
+Added: in Singapore, and is subject to inspection by the PCAOB on a regular basis.
+Added: To the extent that our independent registered public
+Added: accounting firm’s audit documentation related to their audit reports for our business activities in Hong Kong or Taiwan, the
+Added: PCAOB may not be able inspect such audit documentation and, as such, you may be deprived of the benefits of such inspection and our Common
+Added: Stock could be delisted from the stock exchange pursuant to the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act.
+Added: The Holding Foreign Companies
+Added: Accountable Act, or the HFCAA, was enacted on December 18, 2020.
+Added: The HFCAA states if the SEC determines that we have filed audit
+Added: reports issued by a registered public accounting firm that has not been subject to inspection by the Public Company Accounting Oversight
+Added: Board (the “PCAOB”) for three consecutive years beginning in 2021, the SEC shall prohibit our shares from being traded
+Added: on a national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market in the United States.
+Added: Pursuant to the HFCAA, the
+Added: PCAOB issued a Determination Report on December 16, 2021 which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely
+Added: registered public accounting firms headquartered in parts of the PRC including:
+Added: (i) Mainland China, and (ii) Hong Kong.
+Added: In addition, the PCAOB’s report identified the specific registered public accounting firms which are subject to these determinations.
+Added: Our auditor, Assentsure PAC, is headquartered in Singapore and is subject to inspection by the PCAOB once every three years or as
+Added: determined by the PCAOB.
+Added: Our auditor is not headquartered in the PRC and was not identified in this report as a firm subject to
+Added: the PCAOB’s determination.
+Added: Our independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm issued an audit opinion on the financial statements included in this report filed with the SEC and will issue
+Added: audit reports related to us in the future.
+Added: As auditors of companies that are traded publicly in the United States and a firm registered
+Added: with the PCAOB, our auditor is required by the laws of the United States to undergo regular inspections by the PCAOB but there is
+Added: a risk that our auditor’s work papers has not been subjected to inspection by the PCAOB or the PCAOB is currently unable to conduct
+Added: inspections for reasons unknown or beyond our control.
+Added: Inspections of certain other accounting firms that the PCAOB has conducted have
+Added: identified deficiencies in those firms’ audit procedures and quality control procedures, which may be addressed as part of the
+Added: inspection process to improve future audit quality.
+Added: We are required by the HFCAA to have an auditor that is subject to the inspection
+Added: by the PCAOB.
+Added: While our present auditor is located in the United States and the PCAOB is able to conduct inspections on such
+Added: auditor, to the extent this status changes in the future and our auditor’s audit documentation related to their audit reports for
+Added: our company becomes outside of the inspection by the PCAOB or if the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely our auditor
+Added: because of a position taken by an authority in a foreign jurisdiction, trading in our Ordinary shares could be prohibited under the HFCAA,
+Added: and as a result our ordinary shares could be delisted from NASDAQ.
+Added: On March 24, 2021,
+Added: the SEC adopted interim final rules relating to the implementation of certain disclosure and documentation requirements of the HFCAA,
+Added: which became effective on May 5, 2021.
+Added: We will be required to comply with these rules if the SEC identifies our auditors as having
+Added: a “non-inspection” year under a process to be subsequently established by the SEC.
+Added: On May 13, 2021, the
+Added: PCAOB proposed a new rule for implementing the HFCAA.
+Added: Among other things, the proposed rule provides a framework for the PCAOB to
+Added: use when determining, under the HFCAA, whether it is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms located
+Added: in a foreign jurisdiction because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction.
+Added: The proposed rule would also establish
+Added: the manner of the PCAOB’s determinations;
+Added: the factors the PCAOB will evaluate and the documents and information it will consider
+Added: when assessing whether a determination is warranted;
+Added: the form, public availability, effective date, and duration of such determinations;
+Added: and the process by which the board of the PCAOB can modify or vacate its determinations.
+Added: The proposed rule was adopted by the PCAOB on
+Added: September 22, 2021 and approved by the SEC on November 5, 2021.
+Added: On June 22, 2021, the
+Added: Senate passed AHFCAA which, if passed by the U.S.
+Added: House of Representatives and signed into law, would reduce the number
+Added: of consecutive non-inspection years required for triggering the prohibitions under the HFCAA from three years to two,
+Added: under this proposal, if the auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years, it will trigger the prohibition
+Added: on trading, thus posing more risks on potential delisting as well as the price of Company’s Ordinary shares especially on foreign
+Added: The SEC is assessing how
+Added: to implement other requirements of the HFCAA, including the listing and trading prohibition requirements described above.
+Added: propose additional rules or guidance that could impact us if our auditor is not subject to the PCAOB inspection.
+Added: For example, on August 6,
+Added: 2020, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, or the PWG, issued the Report on Protecting United States Investors
+Added: from Significant Risks from Chinese Companies to the then President of the United States.
+Added: This report recommended the SEC implement
+Added: five recommendations to address companies from jurisdictions that do not provide the PCAOB with sufficient access to fulfill its statutory
+Added: Some of the concepts of these recommendations were implemented with the enactment of the HFCAA.
+Added: However, some of the recommendations
+Added: were more stringent than the HFCAA.
+Added: For example, if a company was not subject to the PCAOB inspection, the report recommended that
+Added: the transition period before a company would be delisted would end on January 1, 2022.
+Added: On December 2, 2021,
+Added: the SEC issued amendments to finalize the interim final rules previously adopted in March 2021, and established procedures to identify
+Added: issuers and prohibit the trading of the securities of certain registrants as required by the HFCAA.
+Added: While the HFCAA is not currently
+Added: applicable to us because our current auditors are subject to PCAOB review, if this changes in the future for any reason, we may
+Added: be subject to the HFCAA.
+Added: The implications of this regulation as applied to us is uncertain.
+Added: Such uncertainty could cause the market
+Added: price of our ordinary shares to be materially and adversely affected, and our securities could be delisted or prohibited from being traded on
+Added: Nasdaq earlier than would be required by the HFCAA.
+Added: If our Common Stock are unable to be listed on another securities exchange,
+Added: such a delisting may substantially impair your ability to sell or purchase our Common Stock, and the risk and uncertainty associated
+Added: with a potential delisting would have a negative impact on the price of the Common Stock.
+Added: Risks Related to Thunder Power’s Products and Services
+Added: We have not yet commenced mass production,
+Added: and any significant delay in the design, manufacture, launch and financing could make it difficult for us to commence production and
+Added: harm our business and prospects.
+Added: Our plan to commercially
+Added: manufacture and sell our vehicles is dependent upon the timely availability of funds, upon our finalizing of the related design, engineering,
+Added: component procurement, testing, build-out and manufacturing plans in a timely manner and also upon our ability to execute these
+Added: plans within the planned timeline.
+Added: Automobile manufacturers often experience delays in the design, manufacture and commercial release
+Added: of new vehicle models, and if we experience significant delays in any of the foregoing processes, it would be difficult for us to commence
+Added: production, which could harm our business and prospects.
+Added: Many of our vehicles are
+Added: still in the development and/or testing phase, and may occur later or not at all.
+Added: Additionally, prior to mass production of our electric
+Added: vehicles, we will also need the vehicles to be fully approved for sale according to differing requirements, including but not limited
+Added: to regulatory requirements, in the different geographies where we intend to launch our vehicles.
+Added: Likewise, we may encounter delays with
+Added: the design, construction, and regulatory or other approvals necessary to bring online our future manufacturing facility in the United States.
+Added: Furthermore, we would rely
+Added: on third party suppliers for the development, manufacture, and/or provision and development of many of the key components and materials
+Added: used in our vehicles, as well as provisioning and servicing equipment in our manufacturing facilities.
+Added: We understand that many automobile
+Added: manufacturers have been affected by ongoing, industry-wide challenges in logistics and supply chains, such as increased port congestion,
+Added: intermittent supplier delays, a shortfall of semiconductor supply, and international travel restrictions preventing supply quality engineers
+Added: from conducting in-person visits and quality engineering for parts production.
+Added: We expect to face these and similar challenges which
+Added: may affect our ability, and the ability of our suppliers, to obtain parts, components and manufacturing equipment on a timely basis,
+Added: and in some instances have resulted in increased costs.
+Added: We expect that these industry-wide trends will continue for the foreseeable
+Added: To the extent our suppliers experience any delays in providing us with or developing necessary components, we could experience
+Added: delays in delivering on our timelines.
+Added: Any significant delay or
+Added: other complication in the development, manufacture, launch and production ramp of our future products, features and services, including
+Added: complications associated with completing and subsequently expanding our production capacity and supply chain or obtaining or maintaining
+Added: related regulatory approvals, or inability to manage such ramps cost-effectively, could materially damage our brand, business, prospects,
+Added: financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: The continued development
+Added: of and the ability to manufacture our vehicles, are and will be subject to risks, including with respect to:
+Added: ability to ensure readiness of firmware features and functions to be integrated into the
+Added: unified hardware network and cloud as planned and on the desired timeline;
+Added: delays by us in delivering final component designs to our suppliers;
+Added: or our suppliers’ ability to successfully tool their manufacturing facilities as planned
+Added: and on the desired timeline;
+Added: ability to ensure a working supply chain and desired supplier part quality and quantity as
+Added: planned and on the desired timeline;
+Added: ability to accurately manufacture vehicles within specified design tolerances;
+Added: ability to establish, refine and scale, as well as make significant investments in manufacturing,
+Added: supply chain management and logistics functions, including the related information technology
+Added: systems and software applications;
+Added: ability to adequately reduce and control the costs of key parts and materials;
+Added: ability to manage any transitions or changes in our production process, planned or unplanned;
+Added: occurrence of product defects that cannot be remedied without adversely affecting the production;
+Added: ability to secure necessary funding;
+Added: ability to negotiate and execute definitive agreements with various suppliers for hardware,
+Added: software, or services necessary to engineer or manufacture our vehicles;
+Added: ability to obtain required regulatory approvals and certifications;
+Added: ability to comply with environmental, safety, and similar regulations and in a timely manner;
+Added: ability to secure necessary components, services, or licenses on acceptable terms and in
+Added: a timely manner;
+Added: ability to attract, recruit, hire, retain and train skilled personnel including supply chain
+Added: management, supplier quality, manufacturing and logistics personnel;
+Added: ability to implement effective and efficient quality controls;
+Added: or disruptions in our supply chain including raw material supplies;
+Added: ability to maintain arrangements on commercially reasonable terms with our suppliers, delivery
+Added: and other partners, after sales service providers, and other operationally significant third
+Added: delays, backlog in manufacturing and research and development of new models, and cost overruns;
+Added: other risks identified herein.
+Added: We expect that we will require
+Added: additional financing to fund our planned operations and expansion plans.
+Added: If we are unable to arrange for required funds under the terms
+Added: and on the timeline that we anticipate, our plans for tooling and building out our manufacturing facilities and for commercial production
+Added: of our electric vehicles could be significantly delayed, which would materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: Our prospect for future growth depends
+Added: upon our ability to establish and maintain relationships with our potential suppliers and source suppliers for our critical components,
+Added: and to completely build out our supply chain, while effectively managing the risks due to such relationships.
+Added: Our success will depend
+Added: on our ability to enter into supplier agreements and establish and maintain our relationships with hundreds of suppliers that are critical
+Added: to the output and production of our vehicles.
+Added: We currently have no supply or supplier agreements and the supplier agreements we have
+Added: been in discussions regarding, or may enter into with potential key suppliers in the future may have provisions where such agreements
+Added: can be terminated in various circumstances, including potentially without cause.
+Added: To the extent that we do not have long-term supply
+Added: agreements with guaranteed pricing for our parts or components, we will be exposed to fluctuations in prices of components, materials
+Added: and equipment.
+Added: In addition, our agreements for the purchase of other components may contain pricing provisions that are subject to adjustment
+Added: based on changes in market prices of key commodities.
+Added: Substantial increases in the prices for such components, materials and equipment,
+Added: whether due to supply chain or logistics issues or due to inflation, would increase our operating costs and could reduce our margins
+Added: if we cannot recoup the increased costs.
+Added: Any attempts to increase the announced or expected prices of our vehicles in response to increased
+Added: costs could be viewed negatively by our potential customers and could adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition or
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: We currently have no supply
+Added: or supplier agreements and may be at a disadvantage in negotiating supply or supplier agreements for the production of our vehicles as
+Added: we have not commenced the mass production of our vehicles.
+Added: In addition, given that in many cases we are an aggregator of automotive parts
+Added: produced by third party manufacturers, there is the possibility that supply or supplier agreements for the parts and components for our
+Added: vehicles could be at costs that make it difficult for us to operate profitably.
+Added: The automotive market is highly competitive,
+Added: and we may not be successful in competing in this industry.
+Added: The global automotive market,
+Added: particularly for electric and alternative fuel vehicles, is highly competitive, and we expect it will become even more so in the future.
+Added: In recent years, the electric vehicle industry has grown, with several companies that focus completely or partially on the electric
+Added: vehicle market.
+Added: We expect additional companies to enter this market within the next several years.
+Added: Electric vehicle manufacturers
+Added: with which we compete include Tesla, BYD, NIO as well as an increasing number of U.S.-based and international entrants,
+Added: many of which have announced plans to begin selling their own electric vehicles in the near-term.
+Added: We also compete with established automobile
+Added: manufacturers in the luxury vehicle segment, many of which have entered or have announced plans to enter the alternative fuel and electric
+Added: vehicle market with either fully electric or plug-in hybrid versions of their vehicles.
+Added: We compete for sales with luxury vehicles
+Added: with internal combustion engines from established manufacturers.
+Added: Many of our current and potential competitors have significantly greater
+Added: financial, technical, manufacturing, marketing and other resources than we do and may be able to devote greater resources to the design,
+Added: development, manufacturing, distribution, promotion, sale, servicing, and support of their products.
+Added: In addition, many of these companies
+Added: have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, larger and more established sales forces, broader customer and industry relationships
+Added: and other resources than we do.
+Added: Our competitors may be in a stronger position to respond quickly to new technologies and may be able
+Added: to design, develop, market and sell their products more effectively than we do.
+Added: We expect competition in our industry to significantly
+Added: intensify in the future in light of increased demand for alternative fuel vehicles, continuing globalization, favorable governmental
+Added: policies, and consolidation in the worldwide automotive industry.
+Added: Our ability to successfully compete in our industry will be fundamental
+Added: to our future success in existing and new markets.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete successfully in our markets.
+Added: Our ability to generate meaningful product
+Added: revenue will depend on consumer adoption of electric vehicles.
+Added: We are developing and producing
+Added: only electric vehicles and, accordingly, our ability to generate meaningful product revenue will highly depend on sustained consumer
+Added: demand for alternative fuel vehicles in general and electric vehicles in particular.
+Added: If the market for electric vehicles does not develop
+Added: as we expect or develops more slowly than we expect, or if there is a decrease in consumer demand for electric vehicles, our business,
+Added: prospects, financial condition and results of operations will be harmed.
+Added: The market for electric and other alternative fuel vehicles
+Added: is relatively new, rapidly evolving, characterized by rapidly changing technologies, price competition, additional competitors, evolving
+Added: government regulation (including government incentives and subsidies) and industry standards, frequent new vehicle announcements and
+Added: changing consumer demands and behaviors.
+Added: Any number of changes in the industry could negatively affect consumer demand for electric vehicles
+Added: in general and our electric vehicles in particular.
+Added: In addition, demand for electric vehicles may
+Added: be affected by factors directly impacting automobile prices or the cost of purchasing and operating automobiles such as sales and financing
+Added: incentives such as tax credits, prices of raw materials and parts and components, cost of fuel, availability of consumer credit, and
+Added: governmental regulations, including tariffs, import regulation and other taxes.
+Added: Volatility in demand may lead to lower vehicle unit sales,
+Added: which may result in downward price pressure and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Further, sales of vehicles in the automotive industry tend to be cyclical in many markets, which may expose us to increased volatility,
+Added: especially as we expand and adjust our operations and retail strategies.
+Added: Specifically, it is uncertain how such macroeconomic factors
+Added: will impact us as a new entrant in an industry that has globally been experiencing a recent decline in sales.
+Added: Other factors that may influence the adoption
+Added: of electric vehicles include:
+Added: ● perceptions
+Added: about electric vehicle quality, safety, design, performance and cost;
+Added: ● perceptions
+Added: about the limited range over which electric vehicles may be driven on a single battery charge;
+Added: ● perceptions
+Added: about the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles, including the initial purchase price
+Added: and operating and maintenance costs, both including and excluding the effect of government
+Added: and other subsidies and incentives designed to promote the purchase of electric vehicles;
+Added: about electric grid capacity and reliability;
+Added: ● perceptions
+Added: about the sustainability and environmental impact of electric vehicles, including with respect
+Added: to both the sourcing and disposal of materials for electric vehicle batteries and the generation
+Added: of electricity provided in the electric grid;
+Added: availability of other alternative fuel vehicles, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles;
+Added: ● improvements
+Added: in the fuel economy of the internal combustion engine;
+Added: quality and availability of service for electric vehicles, especially in international markets;
+Added: in the cost of oil and gasoline;
+Added: regulations and economic incentives promoting fuel efficiency and alternate forms of energy;
+Added: to charging stations and cost to charge an electric vehicle, especially in international
+Added: markets, and related infrastructure costs and standardization;
+Added: availability of tax and other governmental incentives to purchase and operate electric vehicles
+Added: or future regulation requiring increased use of nonpolluting vehicles;
+Added: ● macroeconomic
+Added: The influence of any of
+Added: the factors described above or any other factors may cause a general reduction in consumer demand for electric vehicles or our electric
+Added: vehicles in particular, either of which would materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition
+Added: and prospects.
+Added: Until the foreseeable future our revenue
+Added: will be significantly dependent on a limited number of models of electric vehicles.
+Added: The Company currently has
+Added: four models of electric vehicles featured in its phased development strategy and our revenue in the foreseeable future will be significantly
+Added: dependent on a limited number of models.
+Added: Although we have other vehicle models on our product roadmap, we currently do not expect to
+Added: introduce another vehicle model for sale to these four models until at least 2030.
+Added: We expect to rely on sales from the Limited Edition
+Added: Coupe (the “Coupe” or “488”), Long-range Sedan (the “Sedan”), Compact City Car (the “City
+Added: Car” or “Chloe”) and the Long-range SUV (the “SUV”, the Coupe, Sedan, City Car and SUV collectively
+Added: referred to as the “Models”), among other sources of financing, for the capital that will be required to develop and commercialize
+Added: those subsequent models.
+Added: To the extent that production of the models is delayed, reduced, or is not well-received by the market
+Added: for any reason, our revenue and cash flow would be adversely affected, we may need to seek additional financing earlier than we expect,
+Added: and such financing may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.
+Added: Developments in electric vehicle or alternative
+Added: fuel technology or improvements in the internal combustion engine may adversely affect the demand for our vehicles.
+Added: We may be unable to keep
+Added: up with changes in electric vehicle technology or alternatives to electricity as a fuel source and, as a result, our competitiveness
+Added: Significant developments in alternative technologies, such as alternative battery cell technologies, hydrogen fuel cell technology,
+Added: advanced gasoline, ethanol or natural gas, or improvements in the fuel economy of the internal combustion engine, may materially and
+Added: adversely affect our business and prospects in ways we do not currently anticipate.
+Added: Existing and other battery cell technologies, fuels
+Added: or sources of energy may emerge as customers’ preferred alternative to the technologies in our electric vehicles.
+Added: Any failure by
+Added: us to develop new or enhanced technologies or processes, or to react to changes in existing technologies, could materially delay our
+Added: development and introduction of new and enhanced electric vehicles, which could result in the loss of competitiveness of our vehicles,
+Added: decreased revenue and a loss of market share to competitors.
+Added: In addition, we expect to compete in part on the basis of our vehicles’
+Added: range, efficiency, charging speeds and performance, and improvements in the technology offered by competitors could reduce demand for
+Added: our models or other future vehicles.
+Added: As technologies change, we plan to upgrade or adapt our vehicles and introduce new models that reflect
+Added: such technological developments, but our vehicles may become obsolete, and our research and development efforts may not be sufficient
+Added: to adapt to changes in alternative fuel and electric vehicle technology.
+Added: Additionally, as new companies and larger, existing vehicle
+Added: manufacturers continue to enter the electric vehicle space, we may lose any technological advantage we may have and suffer a decline
+Added: in our competitive position.
+Added: Any failure by us to successfully react to changes in existing technologies or the development of new technologies
+Added: could materially harm our competitive position and growth prospects.
+Added: We will be dependent on our suppliers and
+Added: the inability of these suppliers to deliver necessary components of our products according to our schedule and at prices, quality levels
+Added: and volumes acceptable to us, or our inability to efficiently manage these components or to implement or maintain effective inventory
+Added: management and other systems, processes and personnel to support ongoing and increased production, could have a material adverse effect
+Added: on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We will rely on third-party suppliers
+Added: for the provision and development of many of the key components and materials used in our vehicles.
+Added: While we plan to obtain components
+Added: from multiple sources whenever possible, many of the components used in our vehicles will be purchased by us from a single, yet unknown,
+Added: Our limited, and in many cases single-source, supply chain approach exposes us to multiple potential sources of delivery failure
+Added: or component shortages for our production.
+Added: Our potential third-party suppliers may not be able to meet our required product specifications
+Added: and performance characteristics, which would impact our ability to achieve our product specifications and performance characteristics
+Added: Additionally, our potential third-party suppliers may be unable to obtain required certifications or provide necessary
+Added: warranties for their products that are necessary for use in our vehicles.
+Added: We may be affected by ongoing,
+Added: industry-wide challenges in logistics and supply chains, such as increased port congestion, intermittent supplier delays a shortfall
+Added: of semiconductor supply, and international travel restrictions preventing supply quality engineers from conducting in-person visits
+Added: and quality engineering for parts production.
+Added: We expect that these industry-wide trends will continue to affect the ability of us
+Added: and our suppliers to obtain parts, components and manufacturing equipment on a timely basis for the foreseeable future, and may result
+Added: in increased costs.
+Added: We may also be impacted by changes in our future supply chain or production needs, including cost increases from
+Added: our suppliers, in order to meet our quality targets and development timelines as well as due to design changes.
+Added: Likewise, any significant
+Added: increases in our production may in the future require us to procure additional components in a short amount of time.
+Added: Our suppliers may
+Added: not ultimately be able to sustainably and timely meet our cost, quality and volume needs, requiring us to replace them with other sources.
+Added: In many cases, our suppliers will be providing us with custom-designed parts that would require significant lead time to obtain
+Added: from alternative suppliers, or may not be available from alternative suppliers at all.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain suitable components
+Added: and materials used in our vehicles from our suppliers or if our suppliers decide to create or supply a competing product, our business
+Added: could be adversely affected.
+Added: Further, if we are unsuccessful in our efforts to control and reduce supplier costs, our results of operations
+Added: We have not experienced,
+Added: but may in the future experience, delays if our suppliers do not meet agreed upon timelines, experience capacity constraints, or deliver
+Added: components that do not meet our quality standards.
+Added: Any disruption in the supply of components, whether or not from a single source supplier,
+Added: could temporarily disrupt production of our vehicles until an alternative supplier is able to supply the required material.
+Added: delay, even if caused by a delay or shortage in only one part, could significantly affect our ability to meet our planned vehicle production
+Added: Even in cases where we may be able to establish alternate supply relationships and obtain or engineer replacement components
+Added: for our single source components, we may be unable to do so quickly, or at all, at prices or quality levels that are acceptable to us.
+Added: This risk is heightened by the fact that we have less negotiating leverage with suppliers than larger and more established automobile
+Added: manufacturers, which could adversely affect our ability to obtain necessary components and materials on a timely basis, on favorable
+Added: pricing and other terms, or at all.
+Added: The industry in which we operate has recently experienced severe supply chain disruptions, and we
+Added: expect these conditions to continue for the foreseeable future.
+Added: Any such supply disruption could materially and adversely affect our
+Added: results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
+Added: Furthermore, as the scale
+Added: of our vehicle production increases in the future, we will need to accurately forecast, purchase, warehouse and transport components
+Added: to our manufacturing facilities and servicing locations internationally and at much higher volumes.
+Added: We have not yet scaled production
+Added: in our manufacturing facilities to significant volumes or begun servicing vehicles at significant volumes.
+Added: Accordingly, our ability to
+Added: scale production and vehicle servicing and mitigate risks associated with these activities has not been thoroughly tested.
+Added: unable to accurately match the timing and quantities of component purchases to our actual needs, successfully recruit and retain personnel
+Added: with relevant experience, or successfully implement automation, inventory management and other systems or processes to accommodate the
+Added: increased complexity in our supply chain and manufacturing operations, we may incur unexpected production disruption, storage, transportation
+Added: and write-off costs, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Furthermore, unexpected
+Added: changes in business conditions, materials pricing, labor issues, wars, governmental changes, tariffs, natural disasters, health epidemics,
+Added: and other factors beyond our and our suppliers’ control could also affect these suppliers’ ability to deliver components
+Added: to us on a timely basis.
+Added: We have also identified certain of our suppliers, including certain suppliers we deem critical, as having poor
+Added: financial health or being at risk of bankruptcy.
+Added: Although we routinely review our suppliers’ financial health and attempt to identify
+Added: alternate suppliers where possible, the loss of any supplier, particularly a single- or limited-source supplier, or the disruption
+Added: in the supply of components from our suppliers, could lead to vehicle design changes, production delays, idle manufacturing facilities
+Added: and potential loss of access to important technology and parts for producing, servicing and supporting our vehicles, any of which could
+Added: result in negative publicity, damage to our brand and a material and adverse effect on our business, prospects, results of operations
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, if our suppliers experience substantial financial difficulties, cease operations or otherwise face
+Added: business disruptions, we may be required to provide substantial financial support to ensure supply continuity, which could have an additional
+Added: adverse effect on our liquidity and financial condition.
+Added: Increases in costs, disruption of supply
+Added: or shortage of materials, in particular for lithium-ion cells or semiconductors, could harm our business.
+Added: As we scale commercial production
+Added: of our vehicles or any future energy storage systems, we have experienced and may continue to experience increases in the cost of or
+Added: a sustained interruption in the supply or shortage of materials.
+Added: Any such increase, supply interruption or shortage could materially
+Added: and adversely impact our business, results of operations, prospects and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, we use various materials in
+Added: our business, including aluminum, steel, lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt, neodymium, terbium, praseodymium and manganese, as well as
+Added: lithium-ion cells and semiconductors from suppliers.
+Added: The prices for these materials fluctuate, and their available
+Added: supply may be unstable, depending on market conditions, inflationary pressure and global demand for these materials, including as a result
+Added: of increased production of electric vehicles, energy storage products by our competitors and the global supply chain crisis, and could
+Added: adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: For instance, we are exposed to multiple risks relating to lithium-ion cells.
+Added: These risks include:
+Added: inability or unwillingness of current battery manufacturers to build or operate battery cell
+Added: manufacturing plants to supply the numbers of lithium-ion cells required to support
+Added: the growth of the electric vehicle industry as demand for such cells increases;
+Added: increase in the cost, or decrease in the available supply, of materials, such as cobalt,
+Added: used in lithium-ion cells;
+Added: in the supply of cells due to quality issues or recalls by battery cell manufacturers;
+Added: ● fluctuations
+Added: in the value of any foreign currencies, in which battery cell and related raw material purchases
+Added: are or may be denominated against the U.S.
+Added: Our ability to manufacture
+Added: our vehicles or any future energy storage systems will depend on the continued supply of battery cells for the battery packs used in
+Added: our products.
+Added: We have limited flexibility in changing battery cell suppliers, and any disruption in the supply of battery cells from
+Added: such suppliers could disrupt production of our vehicles until a different supplier is fully qualified.
+Added: Furthermore, our ability to manufacture
+Added: our vehicles depends on continuing access to semiconductors and components that incorporate semiconductors.
+Added: A global semiconductor supply
+Added: shortage is having wide-ranging effects across multiple industries and the automotive industry in particular, and it has impacted
+Added: many automotive suppliers and manufacturers, including us, that incorporate semiconductors into the parts they supply or manufacture.
+Added: We have experienced and may continue to experience an impact on our operations as a result of the semiconductor supply shortage, and
+Added: such shortage could in the future have a material impact on us or our suppliers, which could delay or reduce planned production levels
+Added: of the Models or planned future vehicles, impair our ability to continue production once started or force us or our suppliers to pay
+Added: exorbitant rates for continued access to semiconductors, and of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: In addition, prices and transportation expenses for these materials fluctuate depending on many factors beyond
+Added: our control, including fluctuations in supply and demand, currency fluctuations, tariffs and taxes, fluctuations and shortages in petroleum
+Added: supply, freight charges and other economic and political factors.
+Added: These risks could be further magnified by geographical developments
+Added: such as the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
+Added: Substantial increases in the prices for our materials or prices charged to us, such
+Added: as those charged by battery cell or semiconductor suppliers, would increase our operating costs, and could reduce our margins if we cannot
+Added: recoup the increased costs through increased prices.
+Added: Any attempts to increase product prices in response to increased material costs
+Added: could result in cancellations of orders and reservations and materially and adversely affect our brand, image, business, results of operations,
+Added: prospects and financial condition.
+Added: Furthermore, currency fluctuations,
+Added: tariffs or shortages in petroleum and other economic or political conditions have and may continue to result in significant increases
+Added: in freight charges and raw material costs.
+Added: Substantial increases in the prices for our raw materials or components would increase our
+Added: operating costs and could reduce our margins.
+Added: In addition, a growth in popularity of electric vehicles without a significant expansion
+Added: in battery cell production capacity could result in shortages which would result in increased materials costs to us, and would impact
+Added: our expected manufacturing and delivery timelines, and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, results of operations,
+Added: and cash flows.
+Added: We must develop complex software and technology
+Added: systems, including in coordination with vendors and suppliers, in order to produce our electric vehicles, and there can be no assurance
+Added: such systems will be successfully developed.
+Added: Our vehicles, use a substantial
+Added: amount of third-party and proprietary software and complex technological hardware to operate, some of which is still subject to
+Added: further development and testing.
+Added: The development and implementation of such advanced technologies is inherently complex, and requires
+Added: coordination with our vendors and suppliers in order to integrate such technology into our electric vehicles and ensure it interoperates
+Added: with other complex technology as designed and as expected.
+Added: We may fail to detect defects
+Added: and errors that are subsequently revealed, and our control over the performance of third-party services and systems may be limited.
+Added: Any defects or errors in, or which are attributed to, our technology, could result in, among other things:
+Added: production and delivery of our vehicles;
+Added: market acceptance of our vehicles;
+Added: of customers or inability to attract new customers;
+Added: of engineering or other resources for remedying the defect or error;
+Added: to our brand or reputation;
+Added: service and warranty costs;
+Added: action by customers or third parties, including product liability claims;
+Added: imposed by regulatory authorities.
+Added: In addition, if we are unable
+Added: to develop the software and technology systems necessary to operate our vehicles, our competitive position will be harmed.
+Added: third-party suppliers to develop a number of technologies for use in our products.
+Added: There can be no assurances that
+Added: our suppliers will be able to meet the technological requirements, production timing and volume requirements to support our business
+Added: In addition, such technology may not satisfy the cost, performance useful life and warranty characteristics we anticipate in our
+Added: business plan, which could materially adversely affect our business, prospects and results of operations.
+Added: If our manufacturing facilities become
+Added: inoperable, we will be unable to produce our vehicles and our business will be harmed.
+Added: Any failure to continue
+Added: commercial production on schedule, such as a breakdown or interruption of our supply chain, would lead to additional costs and would
+Added: delay our ability to generate meaningful revenues.
+Added: In addition, it could prevent us from gaining the confidence of potential customers,
+Added: spur cancellations of reservations for the Models and open the door to increased competition.
+Added: All of the foregoing could hinder our ability
+Added: to successfully launch and grow our business and achieve a competitive position in the market.
+Added: We rely on complex machinery for our operations,
+Added: and production involves a significant degree of risk and uncertainty in terms of operational performance, safety, security and costs.
+Added: We expect to utilize a number
+Added: of new manufacturing technologies, techniques and processes for our vehicles, such as motor winding equipment, and we may utilize additional
+Added: new technologies, techniques and processes in the future.
+Added: Certain design features in our vehicles present additional manufacturing challenges,
+Added: such the Battery Management System and Thermal Management System.
+Added: There is no guarantee that we will be able to successfully and timely
+Added: introduce and scale any such new processes or features.
+Added: We also rely heavily on
+Added: complex machinery for our operations, and our production involves a significant degree of uncertainty and risk in terms of operational
+Added: performance and costs.
+Added: Our manufacturing plant employs large-scale, complex machinery combining many components, which may suffer unexpected
+Added: malfunctions from time to time and will depend on repairs and spare parts that may not be available when needed.
+Added: Unexpected malfunctions
+Added: of the manufacturing plant components may significantly decrease our operational efficiency, including by forcing manufacturing shutdowns
+Added: in order to conduct repairs or troubleshoot manufacturing problems.
+Added: Our facilities may also be harmed or rendered inoperable by natural
+Added: or man-made disasters, including but not limited to earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding, fire, power outages, environmental hazards
+Added: and remediation, costs associated with decommissioning of equipment, labor disputes and strikes, difficulty or delays in obtaining governmental
+Added: permits and licenses, damages or defects in electronic systems, industrial accidents or health epidemics, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic,
+Added: which may render it difficult or impossible for us to manufacture our vehicles for some period of time.
+Added: The inability to produce our
+Added: vehicles or the backlog that could develop if our manufacturing plant is inoperable for even a short period of time may result in the
+Added: loss of customers or harm our reputation.
+Added: Although we maintain insurance for damage to our property and the disruption of our business,
+Added: this insurance may not be sufficient to cover all of our potential losses and may not continue to be available to us on acceptable terms,
+Added: Should operational risks materialize, they may result in the personal injury to or death of our workers, the loss of production
+Added: equipment, damage to manufacturing facilities, monetary losses, delays and unanticipated fluctuations in production, environmental damage,
+Added: administrative fines, increased insurance costs and potential legal liabilities, all which could have a material adverse effect on our
+Added: business, results of operations, cash flows, financial condition or prospects.
+Added: If we update or discontinue the use of
+Added: our manufacturing equipment more quickly than expected, we may have to shorten the useful lives of any equipment to be retired as a result
+Added: of any such update, and the resulting acceleration in our depreciation could negatively affect our financial results.
+Added: We have invested and expect
+Added: to continue to invest significantly in what we believe is state of the art tooling, machinery and other manufacturing equipment, and
+Added: we depreciate the cost of such equipment over their expected useful lives.
+Added: However, manufacturing technology may evolve rapidly, and
+Added: we may decide to update our manufacturing processes more quickly than expected.
+Added: Moreover, as we ramp the commercial production of our
+Added: vehicles, our experience may cause us to discontinue the use of already installed equipment in favor of different or additional equipment.
+Added: The useful life of any equipment that would be retired early as a result would be shortened, causing the depreciation on such equipment
+Added: to be accelerated, and our results of operations could be negatively impacted.
+Added: We have no experience to date in mass manufacturing
+Added: of our electric vehicles.
+Added: We cannot provide any assurance
+Added: as to whether we will be able to develop efficient, automated, low-cost logistics and production capabilities and processes and
+Added: reliable sources of component supply that will enable us to meet the quality, price, engineering, design and production standards, as
+Added: well as the production volumes, required to successfully mass market our vehicles.
+Added: Even if we are successful in developing our high volume
+Added: production capability and processes and reliably source our component supply, no assurance can be given as to whether we will be able
+Added: to do so in a manner that avoids significant delays and cost overruns, including as a result of factors beyond our control such as problems
+Added: with suppliers and vendors, or force majeure events, or in time to meet our commercialization schedules, or to store and deliver parts
+Added: in sufficient quantities to the manufacturing lines in a manner that enables us to maintain our production ramp curve and rates, or to
+Added: satisfy the requirements of customers and potential customers.
+Added: Any failure to develop such logistics and production processes and capabilities
+Added: within our projected costs and timelines could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, prospects and financial
+Added: Bottlenecks and other unexpected challenges have and may continue to arise as we ramp production of the models, and it will
+Added: be important that we address them promptly while continuing to control our logistics and manufacturing costs.
+Added: If we are not successful
+Added: in doing so, or if we experience issues with our logistics and manufacturing process improvements, we could face further delays in establishing
+Added: and/or sustaining our production ramps or be unable to meet our related cost and profitability targets.
+Added: If our vehicles fail to perform as expected,
+Added: our ability to develop, market and sell or lease our products could be harmed.
+Added: Our vehicles or the components
+Added: installed therein have in the past and may in the future contain defects in design and manufacture that may cause them not to perform
+Added: as expected or that may require repairs, recalls, and design changes, any of which would require significant financial and other resources
+Added: to successfully navigate and resolve.
+Added: Although we will attempt to remedy any issues we observe in our products as effectively and rapidly
+Added: as possible, such efforts could significantly distract management’s attention from other important business objectives, may not
+Added: be timely, may hamper production or may not be to the satisfaction of our customers.
+Added: Further, our limited operating history and limited
+Added: field data reduce our ability to evaluate and predict the long-term quality, reliability, durability and performance characteristics
+Added: of our battery packs, powertrains and vehicles.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to detect and fix any defects in our products
+Added: prior to their sale or lease to customers.
+Added: Any defects, delays or legal
+Added: restrictions on vehicle features, or other failure of our vehicles to perform as expected, could harm our reputation and result in delivery
+Added: delays, product recalls, product liability claims, breach of warranty claims and significant warranty and other expenses, and could have
+Added: a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, prospects and financial condition.
+Added: Any such defects or noncompliance
+Added: with legal requirements could also result in safety recalls.
+Added: See “ — Risks Related to Regulation and Litigation .”
+Added: As a new entrant to the industry attempting to build customer relationships and earn trust, these effects could be significantly
+Added: detrimental to us.
+Added: Additionally, problems and defects experienced by other electric consumer vehicles could by association have a negative
+Added: impact on perception and customer demand for our vehicles.
+Added: In addition, even if our
+Added: vehicles function as designed, we expect that the battery efficiency, and hence the range, of our electric vehicles, like other electric
+Added: vehicles that use current battery technology, will decline over time.
+Added: Other factors, such as usage, time and stress patterns, may also
+Added: impact the battery’s ability to hold a charge, or could require us to limit vehicles’ battery charging capacity, including
+Added: via over-the-air or other software updates, for safety reasons or to protect battery capacity, which could further decrease our
+Added: vehicles’ range between charges.
+Added: Such decreases in or limitations of battery capacity and therefore range, whether imposed by deterioration,
+Added: software limitations or otherwise, could also lead to consumer complaints or warranty claims, including claims that prior knowledge of
+Added: such decreases or limitations would have affected consumers’ purchasing decisions.
+Added: Further, there can be no assurance that we will
+Added: be able to improve the performance of our battery packs, or increase our vehicles’ range, in the future.
+Added: Any such battery deterioration
+Added: or capacity limitations and related decreases in range may negatively influence potential customers’ willingness to purchase our
+Added: vehicles and negatively impact our brand and reputation, which could adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: We face challenges providing charging solutions for our vehicles.
+Added: Demand for our vehicles
+Added: will depend in part on the availability of charging infrastructure both domestically and internationally.
+Added: While the prevalence of charging
+Added: stations has been increasing, charging station locations are significantly less widespread than gas stations.
+Added: Globally there are supportive
+Added: regulations and funding to build and implement more charging stations.
+Added: In the U.S., there is a movement toward having a uniform charging
+Added: adaptor whereby customers of different brands of electric vehicles may use any charging station.
+Added: However, there is no assurance that
+Added: more changing stations will be built and implemented in the future, or that a uniform charging adaptor will be available in the future.
+Added: Insufficient reserves to cover future warranty
+Added: or part replacement needs or other vehicle repair requirements, including any potential software upgrades, could materially adversely
+Added: affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We provide a new vehicle
+Added: limited warranty on all vehicles, components and systems.
+Added: Warranty reserves will include our management team’s best estimate of
+Added: the projected costs to repair or to replace items under warranty.
+Added: Such estimates are inherently uncertain, particularly in light of our
+Added: limited operating history and the limited field data available to us, and changes to such estimates based on real-world observations
+Added: may cause material changes to our warranty reserves in the future.
+Added: If our reserves are inadequate to cover future maintenance requirements
+Added: on our vehicles, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: may become subject to significant and unexpected expenses as well as claims from our customers, including loss of revenue or damages.
+Added: There can be no assurances that then-existing reserves will be sufficient to cover all claims.
+Added: In addition, if future laws or regulations
+Added: impose additional warranty obligations on us that go beyond our manufacturer’s warranty, we may be exposed to materially higher
+Added: warranty, parts replacement and repair expenses than we expect, and our reserves may be insufficient to cover such expenses.
+Added: We may not be able to accurately estimate
+Added: the supply and demand for our vehicles, which could result in a variety of inefficiencies in our business and hinder our ability to generate
+Added: If we fail to accurately predict our manufacturing requirements, we could incur additional costs or experience delays.
+Added: It is difficult to predict
+Added: our future revenues and appropriately budget for our expenses, and we have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our
+Added: We will be required to provide forecasts of our demand to our suppliers several months prior to the scheduled delivery
+Added: of vehicles to our prospective customers.
+Added: Currently, there is no historical basis for making judgments about the demand for our vehicles
+Added: or our ability to develop, manufacture, and deliver vehicles, or our profitability in the future.
+Added: If we overestimate our requirements,
+Added: our suppliers may have excess inventory, which indirectly would increase our costs.
+Added: If we underestimate our requirements, our suppliers
+Added: may have inadequate inventory, which could interrupt manufacturing of our products and result in delays in shipments and revenues.
+Added: addition, lead times for materials and components that our suppliers order may vary significantly and depend on factors such as the specific
+Added: supplier, contract terms and demand for each component at a given time.
+Added: If we fail to order sufficient quantities of product components
+Added: in a timely manner, the delivery of vehicles to our customers could be delayed, which would harm our business, financial condition and
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: Our vehicles will make use of lithium-ion battery
+Added: cells, which have been observed to catch fire or vent smoke and flame.
+Added: The battery packs within
+Added: our vehicles make use of, and any future energy storage systems will make use of lithium-ion cells.
+Added: On rare occasions, lithium-ion cells
+Added: can rapidly release the energy they contain by venting smoke and flames in a manner that can ignite nearby materials as well as other
+Added: lithium-ion cells.
+Added: While we have designed our battery packs to passively contain a single cell’s release of energy without
+Added: spreading to neighboring cells, a field or testing failure of our vehicles or other battery packs that we produce could occur.
+Added: although we equip our vehicles with systems designed to detect and warn vehicle occupants of such thermal events, there can be no assurance
+Added: that such systems will function as designed or will provide vehicle occupants with sufficient, or any, warning in all crashes.
+Added: events or failures of our vehicles, battery packs or warning systems could subject us to lawsuits, product recalls, or redesign efforts,
+Added: all of which would be time consuming and expensive.
+Added: Also, negative public perceptions regarding the suitability of lithium-ion cells
+Added: for automotive applications or any future incident involving lithium-ion cells, such as a vehicle or other fire, even if such incident
+Added: does not involve our vehicles, could seriously harm our business and reputation.
+Added: Risks Related to Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
+Added: Any unauthorized control, manipulation,
+Added: interruption or compromise of or access to our products or information technology systems could result in loss of confidence in us and
+Added: our products, harm our business and materially adversely affect our financial performance, results of operations or prospects.
+Added: Our products may contain
+Added: complex information technology systems.
+Added: For example, our vehicles are designed with built-in data connectivity to accept and install
+Added: periodic remote updates to improve their functionality.
+Added: In addition, we expect to
+Added: collect, store, transmit and otherwise process data from vehicles, customers, personnel and other third parties as part of our business
+Added: operations, which may include personal data or confidential or proprietary information.
+Added: We also work with third-party service providers
+Added: and vendors that collect, store and process such data on our behalf.
+Added: We have taken certain measures to prevent unauthorized access and
+Added: plan to continue to deploy additional measures as we grow.
+Added: Our third-party service providers and vendors also take steps to protect
+Added: the security and integrity of our and their information technology systems and our and their customers’ information.
+Added: However, there
+Added: can be no assurance that such systems and measures will not be compromised as a result of intentional misconduct, including by personnel,
+Added: contractors, or vendors, as well as by software bugs, human error, or technical malfunctions.
+Added: Furthermore, cyber threat
+Added: actors may in the future attempt to gain unauthorized access to, modify, alter and use our vehicles, products and systems to (i) gain
+Added: control of, (ii) change the functionality, user interface and performance characteristics of and/or (iii) gain access to data
+Added: stored in or generated by, our vehicles, products and systems.
+Added: Advances in technology, new vulnerability discoveries, an increased level
+Added: of sophistication and diversity of our products and services, an increased level of expertise of cyber threat actors and new discoveries
+Added: in the field of cryptography could lead to a compromise or breach of the measures that we or our third-party service providers use.
+Added: Some of our products and information technology systems contain or use open source software, which can create additional risks, including
+Added: potential security vulnerabilities.
+Added: We and our third-party service providers’ may in the future be affected by security incidents.
+Added: Our systems are also vulnerable to damage or interruption from, among other things, computer viruses, malware, ransomware, killware,
+Added: wiperware, computer denial or degradation of service attacks, telecommunications failures, social engineering schemes (such as vishing,
+Added: phishing or smishing), domain name spoofing, insider theft, physical theft, fire, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, power loss, war,
+Added: or misuse, mistake or other attempts to harm our products and systems.
+Added: Our data center and our third-party service providers’
+Added: or vendors’ data centers could be subject to break-ins, sabotage and intentional acts of vandalism causing potential disruptions.
+Added: Some of our systems will not be fully redundant, and our disaster recovery planning cannot account for all eventualities.
+Added: at our or our third-party service providers’ or vendors’ data centers and/or cloud infrastructure could result in lengthy
+Added: interruptions in our service and our business operations.
+Added: There can be no assurance that any security or other operational measures that
+Added: we or our third-party service providers or vendors have implemented will be effective against any of the foregoing threats or issues.
+Added: These risks have been heightened
+Added: in connection with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and we cannot be certain how this new risk landscape will impact our
+Added: When geopolitical conflicts develop, government systems as well as critical infrastructures such as financial services and
+Added: utilities may be targeted by state-sponsored cyberattacks even if they are not directly involved in the conflict.
+Added: There can be no
+Added: assurance that our business will not become a potential target as adversaries may attack networks and systems indiscriminately.
+Added: cyberattacks may potentially cause unauthorized access to our sensitive data (including our proprietary software codes), products, and
+Added: systems, causing data breach, or disruption, modification, destruction to our systems and applications.
+Added: As a result, we may suffer monetary
+Added: losses, business interruption, and long-lasting operational issues, damage to our reputation and brand, loss of our intellectual
+Added: property or trade secrets.
+Added: If we are unable to protect
+Added: our products and systems (and the information stored in our systems) from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification,
+Added: destruction or other breach, such problems or security breaches could have negative consequences for our business and future prospects,
+Added: including compromise of vehicle integrity and physical safety, causing monetary losses, giving rise to liabilities under our contracts
+Added: or to the owners of the applicable information, subjecting us to substantial fines, penalties, damages and other liabilities under applicable
+Added: laws and regulations, incurring substantial costs to respond to, investigate and remedy such incidents, reducing customer demand for
+Added: our products, harming our reputation and brand and compromising or leading to a loss of protection of our intellectual property or trade
+Added: In addition, regardless of their veracity, reports of unauthorized access to our vehicles, systems or data, as well as other
+Added: factors that may result in the perception that our vehicles, systems or data are vulnerable to being “hacked,” could negatively
+Added: affect our brand.
+Added: In addition, some members of the U.S.
+Added: federal government, including certain members of Congress and the National
+Added: Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“ NHTSA ”) , have recently focused attention on automotive cybersecurity
+Added: issues and may in the future propose or implement regulations specific to automotive cybersecurity.
+Added: In addition, the United Nations Economic
+Added: Commission for Europe has introduced new regulations governing connected vehicle cybersecurity, which became effective in January 2021
+Added: and are expected to apply in the European Union to all new vehicle types beginning in July 2022 and to all existing architectures/new
+Added: vehicles from July 2024.
+Added: Such regulations are also in effect, or expected to come into effect, in certain other international jurisdictions.
+Added: These and other regulations could adversely affect the timing of our entry into various markets, and if such regulations or other future
+Added: regulations are inconsistent with our approach to automotive cybersecurity, we would be required to modify our systems to comply with
+Added: such regulations, which would impose additional costs and delays and could expose us to potential liability to the extent our automotive
+Added: cybersecurity systems and practices are inconsistent with such regulation.
+Added: We may not have adequate
+Added: insurance coverage to cover losses associated with any of the foregoing, if any.
+Added: The successful assertion of one or more large claims
+Added: against us that exceeds our available insurance coverage, or results in changes to our insurance policies (including premium increases
+Added: or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements), could have an adverse effect on our business.
+Added: we cannot be sure that our existing insurance coverage will continue to be available on acceptable terms or that our insurers will not
+Added: deny coverage as to any future claim.
+Added: Furthermore, we are continuously
+Added: expanding and improving our information technology systems.
+Added: In particular, our planned future vehicles will necessitate continued development,
+Added: maintenance and improvement of our information technology and communication systems in the United States and abroad, such as systems
+Added: for product data management, vehicle management tools, vehicle security systems, vehicle security management processes, procurement of
+Added: bill of material items, supply chain management, inventory management, production planning and execution, lean manufacturing, sales,
+Added: service and logistics, dealer management, financial, tax and regulatory compliance systems.
+Added: Our ability to operate our business will
+Added: depend on the availability and effectiveness of these systems.
+Added: The implementation, maintenance, segregation and improvement of these
+Added: systems require significant management time, support and cost.
+Added: Moreover, there are inherent risks associated with developing, improving
+Added: and expanding our core systems as well as implementing new systems, including the disruption of our data management, procurement, manufacturing
+Added: execution, finance, supply chain, inventory management, and sales and service processes.
+Added: We cannot be certain that these systems or their
+Added: required functionality will be effectively and timely developed, implemented, maintained or expanded as planned.
+Added: If we are unsuccessful
+Added: in any of the foregoing, our operations may be disrupted, our ability to accurately or timely report our financial results could be impaired,
+Added: and deficiencies may arise in our internal control over financial reporting, which may impact our ability to certify our financial results.
+Added: If these systems or their functionality do not operate as we expect them to, we may be required to expend significant resources to make
+Added: corrections or find alternative sources for performing these functions.
+Added: Any of the foregoing could materially adversely affect our business,
+Added: prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, our vehicles
+Added: depend on the ability of software and hardware to store, retrieve, process and manage immense amounts of data.
+Added: Our software and hardware,
+Added: including any over-the-air or other updates, may contain, errors, bugs, design defects or vulnerabilities, and our systems may be
+Added: subject to technical limitations that may compromise our ability to meet our objectives.
+Added: Some errors, bugs or vulnerabilities may reside
+Added: in third-party intellectual property or open source software and/or be inherently difficult to detect and may only be discovered
+Added: after code has been released for external or internal use.
+Added: Although we will attempt to remedy any issues we observe in our vehicles as
+Added: effectively and rapidly as possible, such efforts may not be timely, may hamper production or may not be to the satisfaction of our customers.
+Added: Additionally, if we are able to deploy updates to the software addressing any issues but our over-the-air update procedures fail
+Added: to properly update the software, our customers will then be responsible for working with our service personnel to install such updates
+Added: to the software, and their vehicle will be subject to these vulnerabilities until they do so.
+Added: Any compromise of our intellectual property,
+Added: proprietary information, systems or vehicles or inability prevent or effectively remedy errors, bugs, vulnerabilities or defects in our
+Added: software and hardware may cause us to suffer lengthy interruptions to our ability to operate our business and our customers’ ability
+Added: to operate their vehicles, compromise of vehicle integrity and physical safety, damage to our reputation, loss of customers, loss of
+Added: revenue, governmental fines, investigations or litigation or liability for damages, any of which could materially adversely affect our
+Added: business, results of operations, prospects and financial condition.
+Added: We are subject to evolving laws, regulations,
+Added: standards, policies, and contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, and any actual or perceived failure to comply
+Added: with such obligations could harm our reputation and brand, subject us to significant fines and liability, or otherwise adversely affect
+Added: our business.
+Added: In the course of our operations,
+Added: we may collect, use, store, disclose, transfer and otherwise process personal information from our customers, personnel and third parties
+Added: with whom we conduct business, including names, accounts, driver license information, user IDs and passwords, and payment or transaction
+Added: related information.
+Added: Additionally, we will use our vehicles’ electronic systems to log information about each vehicle’s use,
+Added: such as charge time, battery usage, geolocation, mileage and driving behavior, in order to aid it in vehicle diagnostics, repair and
+Added: maintenance, as well as to help us customize and improve the driving and riding experience.
+Added: Accordingly, we may be subject
+Added: to or affected by a number of federal, state, local and international laws and regulations, as well as contractual obligations and industry
+Added: standards, that impose certain obligations and restrictions with respect to data privacy and security and govern our collection, storage,
+Added: retention, protection, use, transmission, sharing, disclosure and other processing of personal information including that of our personnel,
+Added: customers and other third parties with whom we conduct business.
+Added: These laws, regulations and standards may be interpreted and applied
+Added: differently over time and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and it is possible that they will be interpreted and applied in ways that
+Added: may have a material and adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: The global data protection
+Added: landscape is rapidly evolving, and implementation standards and enforcement practices are likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable
+Added: We may not be able to monitor and react to all developments in a timely manner.
+Added: For example, the European Union adopted the General
+Added: Data Protection Regulation (“ GDPR ”) , which became effective in May 2018, California adopted the California
+Added: Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“ CCPA ”) , which became effective in January 2020, Canada adopted
+Added: the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“ PIPEDA ”) and continues to amend the statute, the
+Added: United Arab Emirates adopted the Data Protection Law (“ DPL ”), which became effective in January 2022, and the
+Added: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enacted the Personal Data Protection Law (“ PDPL ”) which will take effect in March 2023.
+Added: Each of the GDPR, the CCPA, the PIPEDA, the DPL and the PDPL impose additional obligations on companies regarding the handling of personal
+Added: data and provides certain individual privacy rights to persons whose data is collected.
+Added: Compliance with existing, proposed and recently
+Added: enacted laws and regulations (including implementation of the privacy and process enhancements called for under the GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA,
+Added: DPL and PDPL) can be costly, and any failure to comply with these regulatory standards could subject us to legal and reputational risks.
+Added: Specifically, failure to
+Added: comply with the GDPR can result in significant fines and other liability, including, under the GDPR, fines of up to EUR 20 million
+Added: or four percent (4%) of global revenue, whichever is greater.
+Added: The cost of compliance, and the potential for fines and penalties for non-compliance,
+Added: with GDPR may have a significant adverse effect on our business and operations.
+Added: Recent legal developments in the European Economic Area
+Added: (“ EEA ”), including recent rulings from the Court of Justice of the European Union and from various EU member state
+Added: data protection authorities, have created complexity and uncertainty regarding transfers of personal data from the EEA to the United States
+Added: and other so-called third countries outside the EEA.
+Added: Similar complexities and uncertainties also apply to transfers from the
+Added: United Kingdom to third countries.
+Added: While we have taken steps to mitigate the impact on us, the efficacy and longevity of these mechanisms
+Added: remains uncertain.
+Added: At the state level, we may
+Added: be subject to law and regulations such as the CCPA.
+Added: The CCPA establishes a privacy framework for covered businesses, including an
+Added: expansive definition of personal information and data privacy rights for California residents.
+Added: The CCPA includes a framework with potentially
+Added: severe statutory damages for violations and a private right of action for certain data breaches.
+Added: The CCPA requires covered businesses
+Added: to provide California residents with new privacy-related disclosures and new ways to opt-out of certain uses and disclosures
+Added: of personal information.
+Added: As we expand our operations, the CCPA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability.
+Added: Some observers
+Added: have noted that the CCPA could mark the beginning of a trend toward more stringent privacy legislation in the United States.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: effective in most material respects starting on January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (“ CPRA ”) , will
+Added: significantly modify the CCPA, including by expanding California residents’ rights with respect to certain sensitive personal information.
+Added: The CPRA also creates a new state agency that will be vested with the authority to implement and enforce the CCPA and the CPRA.
+Added: Other states, including
+Added: Virginia and Colorado, have enacted or are in the process of enacting, or considering similar laws.
+Added: Compliance with these state statutes,
+Added: other similar state or federal laws that may be enacted in the future, and other applicable privacy and data security laws and regulations
+Added: is a rigorous and time-intensive process, and we may be required to put in place additional mechanisms to comply with such laws
+Added: and regulations, which could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices, including our data practices,
+Added: in a manner adverse to our business.
+Added: In particular, certain emerging privacy laws are still subject to a high degree of uncertainty as
+Added: to their interpretation and application.
+Added: Failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations or to secure personal information could
+Added: result in investigations, enforcement actions and other proceedings against us, which could result in substantial fines, damages and
+Added: other liability as well as damage to our reputation and credibility, which could have a negative impact on revenues and profits.
+Added: We will be required to post
+Added: public privacy policies and other documentation regarding our collection, use, disclosure and other processing of personal information.
+Added: Although we will endeavor to comply with our published policies and other documentation, we may at times fail to do so or may be perceived
+Added: to have failed to do so.
+Added: Moreover, despite our efforts, we may not be successful in achieving compliance if our personnel, contractors,
+Added: service providers, vendors or other third parties fail to comply with our published policies and documentation.
+Added: Such failures could carry
+Added: similar consequences or subject us to potential local, state and federal action if they are found to be deceptive, unfair or misrepresentative
+Added: of our actual practices.
+Added: Claims that we have violated individuals’ privacy rights or failed to comply with data protection laws
+Added: or applicable privacy notices could, even if we are not found liable, be expensive and time-consuming to defend and could result
+Added: in adverse publicity that could harm our business.
+Added: Most jurisdictions have
+Added: enacted laws requiring companies to notify individuals, regulatory authorities and other third parties of security breaches involving
+Added: certain types of data.
+Added: For example, laws in all 50 U.S.
+Added: states generally require business to provide notice under certain circumstances
+Added: to consumers whose personal information has been disclosed as a result of a breach.
+Added: Such laws may be inconsistent or may change or additional
+Added: laws may be adopted.
+Added: In addition, our agreements with certain customers may require us to notify them in the event of a security breach.
+Added: Such mandatory disclosures are costly, could lead to negative publicity, penalties or fines, litigation and our customers losing confidence
+Added: in the effectiveness of our security measures and could require us to expend significant capital and other resources to respond to or
+Added: alleviate problems caused by the actual or perceived security breach.
+Added: Any of the foregoing could materially adversely affect our business,
+Added: prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Risks Related to Ownership of Thunder Power’s Securities
+Added: Risks Related to Ownership of Thunder Power’s
+Added: The price of our Common Stock may be volatile.
+Added: The stock price of our Common Stock may be volatile.
+Added: The market price for our Common Stock may be influenced by many factors, including the other risks described in this section and the
+Added: or anticipated variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived
+Added: to be similar to us;
+Added: conditions in the EV sectors;
+Added: conditions and sentiment involving companies that have recently completed a business combination
+Added: with a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”);
+Added: ● announcements
+Added: by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures
+Added: or capital commitments;
+Added: ● developments
+Added: or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights, including patents, litigation
+Added: matters and our ability to obtain patent protection for its products;
+Added: ability or inability to raise additional capital and the terms on which it is raised;
+Added: recruitment or departure of key personnel;
+Added: or anticipated changes in earnings estimates or changes in stock market analyst recommendations
+Added: regarding our Common Stock, other comparable companies or the industry generally;
+Added: failure or the failure of our competitors to meet analysts’ projections or guidance;
+Added: ● fluctuations
+Added: in the valuation of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us;
+Added: ● announcement
+Added: and expectation of additional financing efforts;
+Added: ● speculation
+Added: in the press or investment community;
+Added: volume of our Common Stock;
+Added: of our Common Stock by us or Selling Stockholders;
+Added: concentrated ownership of our Common Stock;
+Added: in accounting principles;
+Added: acts, acts of war or periods of widespread civil unrest;
+Added: disasters, public health crises and other calamities;
+Added: economic, industry and market conditions.
+Added: In addition, the stock markets
+Added: in general, and the markets for SPAC post-business combination businesses, EV stocks in particular, have experienced extreme volatility
+Added: This volatility can often be unrelated to the operating performance of the underlying business.
+Added: These broad market and industry
+Added: factors may seriously harm the market price of our Common Stock, regardless of our operating performance.
+Added: We may incur significant costs from class action litigation
+Added: due to stock volatility.
+Added: Our stock price may fluctuate
+Added: for many reasons, including as a result of public announcements regarding the progress of development efforts for our EVs, the development
+Added: efforts of future collaborators or competitors, the addition or departure of key personnel, variations in quarterly operating results
+Added: and changes in market valuations of EV companies.
+Added: This risk is especially relevant to us because EV companies have experienced significant
+Added: stock price volatility in recent years, including since the public announcement of our Business Combination in October 2023.
+Added: In addition, recently there has been significant stock price volatility involving the shares of companies that have recently completed
+Added: business combinations with SPACs.
+Added: When the market price of a stock has been volatile, as our stock price may be, holders of that stock
+Added: have occasionally brought securities class action litigation against the company that issued the stock.
+Added: Additionally, there has recently
+Added: been a general increase in litigation against companies that have recently completed business combinations with SPACs alleging fraud
+Added: and other claims based on inaccurate or misleading disclosures.
+Added: If any of our stockholders were to bring a lawsuit of this type against
+Added: us, even if the lawsuit is without merit, we could incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit.
+Added: The lawsuit could also divert the time
+Added: and attention of management.
+Added: We are an “emerging growth company”
+Added: and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies may make our Common Stock less attractive to investors
+Added: and may make it more difficult to compare our financial performance with other public companies.
+Added: We are an emerging growth
+Added: company, as defined in the JOBS Act, and we intend to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are
+Added: applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including not being required to comply with the auditor
+Added: attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation
+Added: in periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation
+Added: and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
+Added: An emerging growth company may elect to delay the
+Added: adoption of new or revised accounting standards.
+Added: As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply
+Added: with the effective dates of revised accounting standards.
+Added: Investors may find our Common Stock less attractive because of our reliance
+Added: on these exemptions.
+Added: If some investors find our Common Stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for
+Added: their common stock, and the stock price may be more volatile.
+Added: Future sales and issuances of Common Stock
+Added: or rights to purchase Common Stock could result in additional dilution to our stockholders and could cause the price of our Common Stock
+Added: Significant additional capital
+Added: will be needed in the future to continue our planned operations.
+Added: To raise capital, we may sell shares of Common Stock, convertible securities,
+Added: or other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices and in a manner as determined from time to time.
+Added: If we sell Common Stock,
+Added: convertible securities, or other equity securities, current stockholders may be materially diluted by such sales.
+Added: New investors could
+Added: gain rights, preferences, and privileges senior to the current holders of our Common Stock.
+Added: Pursuant to the 2024 Plan,
+Added: the Board or a committee appointed by the Board to administer the 2024 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Administrator”),
+Added: is authorized to grant stock options to our employees, non-employee directors, and consultants.
+Added: Initially, the maximum aggregate
+Added: number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to stock awards under the 2024 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan is approximately 4,588,005 shares
+Added: of Common Stock.
+Added: Annually, on the first trading day of the calendar year, beginning with calendar year 2025, such share reserve
+Added: will automatically increase by 5% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the last day of the immediately
+Added: preceding calendar year, unless the Administrator acts prior to January 1 of such year to provide that there will be no increase
+Added: or a lesser increase in the share reserve for that year.
+Added: The issuance of additional
+Added: shares of Common Stock or other equity securities of equal or senior rank may have some or all of the following effects:
+Added: amount of cash available per share, including for payment of dividends in the future, may
+Added: relative voting strength of each previously outstanding share of common stock may be diminished;
+Added: market price of our Common Stock may decline.
+Added: Reports published by analysts, including
+Added: projections in those reports that differ from our actual results, could adversely affect the price and trading volume of our Common Stock.
+Added: Securities research analysts
+Added: may publish their own periodic financial projections for our business.
+Added: These projections may vary widely and may not accurately predict
+Added: the results that we actually achieve.
+Added: Our stock price may decline if our actual results do not match the projections of these securities
+Added: research analysts.
+Added: Similarly, if one or more of the analysts who write reports on us downgrades our stock or publishes inaccurate or
+Added: unfavorable research about our business, our stock price could decline.
+Added: If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage or fails to
+Added: publish reports on us regularly, our stock price or trading volume could decline.
+Added: If no analysts cover us, the trading price and volume
+Added: for our Common Stock could be adversely affected.
+Added: Anti-takeover provisions in our governing
+Added: documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of us more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove
+Added: our current management and limit the market price of our Common Stock.
+Added: The Second Amended and Restated
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “Charter”), the Company’s bylaws (the “Bylaws”) and Delaware
+Added: law contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying, or preventing an acquisition deemed undesirable
+Added: by the Board.
+Added: Among other things, the Charter and/or the Company’s Bylaws include the following provisions:
+Added: the Board to issue up to 100,000,000 shares of preferred stock, with any rights, preferences,
+Added: and privileges as they may designate, including the right to approve an acquisition or other
+Added: change of control;
+Added: that the number of directors may be changed only by resolution of the Board;
+Added: that, subject to the rights of any series of preferred stock to elect directors, directors
+Added: may be removed only for cause by the holders of two-thirds (66 and 2/3%) of the voting
+Added: power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of Combined Company entitled
+Added: to vote generally at an election of directors;
+Added: that all vacancies, subject to the rights of any series of preferred stock, including newly
+Added: created directorships, may, except as otherwise required by law, be filled exclusively by
+Added: the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than
+Added: a quorum, or by a sole remaining director;
+Added: that stockholders seeking to present proposals before a meeting of stockholders or seeking
+Added: to nominate candidates for election as directors at a meeting of stockholders must provide
+Added: advance notice in writing, and specify requirements as to the form and content of such notice;
+Added: that special meetings of the our stockholders may be called the Board;
+Added: that the Board will be divided into three classes of directors, with only one class of directors
+Added: being elected each year and each individual director serving a three-year term, thereby
+Added: making it more difficult for stockholders to change the composition of the Board.
+Added: These provisions, alone
+Added: or together, could delay or prevent hostile takeovers and changes in control or changes in our management.
+Added: As a Delaware corporation,
+Added: we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as may be amended from
+Added: time to time (the “DGCL”), which prevents interested stockholders, such as certain stockholders holding more than 15% of
+Added: our outstanding common stock, from engaging in certain business combinations unless (i) prior to the time such stockholder became an
+Added: interested stockholder, the board of directors approved the transaction that resulted in such stockholder becoming an interested stockholder,
+Added: (ii) upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in such stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder
+Added: owned at least 85% of the common stock, or (iii) following board approval, such business combination receives the approval of the holders
+Added: of at least two-thirds of our outstanding common stock not held by such interested stockholder.
+Added: Any provision of the Charter,
+Added: the Company’s Bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a change in control could limit the
+Added: opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock and could also affect the price that some
+Added: investors are willing to pay for our common stock.
+Added: If the Business Combination’s benefits
+Added: do not meet the expectations of investors, stockholders or financial analysts, the market price of our Common Stock may decline.
+Added: If the benefits of the Business
+Added: Combination do not meet the expectations of investors or securities analysts, the market price of our Common Stock may decline.
+Added: the factors listed below could have a material adverse effect on your investment in our Common Stock and it may trade at a price significantly
+Added: below the price you paid for it.
+Added: Factors affecting the trading price of our Common
+Added: Stock following the Business Combination may include:
+Added: or anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly financial results or the quarterly financial
+Added: results of companies perceived to be similar to us;
+Added: in the market’s expectations about our operating results;
+Added: operating results failing to meet the expectation of securities analysts or investors in
+Added: a particular period;
+Added: and stock price performance of other companies that investors deem comparable to us;
+Added: in laws and regulations affecting our business;
+Added: ● commencement
+Added: of, or involvement in, litigation involving us;
+Added: in our capital structure, such as future issuances of securities or the incurrence of additional
+Added: volume of shares available for public sale;
+Added: major change in our Board or senior management;
+Added: of substantial amounts of securities by our directors, executive officers, or significant
+Added: stockholders or the perception that such sales could occur;
+Added: material developments affecting the EV industry.
+Added: Broad market and industry
+Added: factors may materially affect the market price of our Common Stock irrespective of our operating performance.
+Added: The stock market in general
+Added: and Nasdaq have experienced price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance
+Added: of the particular companies affected.
+Added: The trading prices and valuations of these stocks, and of our securities, may not be predictable.
+Added: A loss of investor confidence in the market for retail stocks or the stocks of other companies, notably in the EV industry, which investors
+Added: perceive to be similar to us could depress our stock price regardless of its business, prospects, financial conditions or results of
+Added: A decline in the market price for our Common Stock also could adversely affect our ability to issue additional securities
+Added: and our ability to obtain additional financing in the future.
+Added: Risks Related to Ownership of Thunder Power’s Warrants
+Added: Our warrants became exercisable for our
+Added: Common Stock thirty (30) days after the completion of the Business Combination, which increased the number of shares eligible for
+Added: future issuance and resale in the public market.
+Added: Outstanding warrants to
+Added: purchase an aggregate of 10,537,475 shares of our Common Stock became exercisable in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Agreement
+Added: governing those securities.
+Added: The public warrants became exercisable 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination.
+Added: likelihood that those warrants will be exercised increases if the trading price of our Common Stock exceeds the exercise price of the
+Added: The exercise price of these warrants is $11.50 per share.
+Added: There is no guarantee that the warrants will ever be in the money
+Added: after they become exercisable prior to their expiration, and as such, the warrants may expire worthless.
+Added: To the extent warrants are exercised,
+Added: additional shares of our Common Stock will be issued, which may result in dilution to the holders of our Common Stock and increase the
+Added: number of shares eligible for resale in the public market.
+Added: Sales of substantial numbers of shares issued upon the exercise of warrants
+Added: in the public market could adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock.
+Added: Once our warrants become exercisable, we may redeem the unexpired
+Added: warrants prior to their exercise at a time or in a manner that is disadvantageous to you.
+Added: As of the date of the annual
+Added: report, there were 10,537,475 warrants issued and outstanding, which will expire five years after the date of the Closing.
+Added: ability to redeem outstanding warrants at any time prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant, provided that the last
+Added: reported sales price of our Common Stock equals or exceeds $16.50 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations,
+Added: recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third business day
+Added: prior to the date on which we give proper notice of such redemption and provided certain other conditions are met.
+Added: There can be no assurance
+Added: that the price of our Common Stock will not exceed the threshold of $16.50 after the Business Combination.
+Added: We will notify the warrant
+Added: agent and publicly announce the call for redemption at least thirty (30) days prior to the redemption date and mail the registered holders
+Added: by first class mail.
+Added: We will not redeem the warrants unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the shares of
+Added: Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is effective and a current prospectus relating to those shares of Common Stock is
+Added: available throughout the redemption period, except if the warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is
+Added: exempt from registration under the Securities Act.
+Added: If we elect to redeem the warrants on a cashless basis, we will not receive any cash
+Added: proceeds from the exercise of such warrants.
+Added: Redemption of the outstanding
+Added: warrants could force you (i) to exercise warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for
+Added: you to do so, (ii) to sell warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold warrants or (iii) to
+Added: accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially
+Added: less than the market value of the warrants.
+Added: The Warrant Agreement designates the courts of the State of
+Added: New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the exclusive forum for certain types of actions
+Added: and proceedings that may be initiated by holders of the warrants.
+Added: Pursuant to the Warrant
+Added: Agreement, any action, proceeding or claim against us arising out of or relating in any way to the Warrant Agreement shall be brought
+Added: and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
+Added: The provision
+Added: will apply to suit, action, proceeding or claim brought to enforce any liability or duty arising under the Securities Act.
+Added: Notwithstanding
+Added: the foregoing, the provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other
+Added: claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum.
+Added: Any person or entity purchasing
+Added: or otherwise acquiring any interest in our warrants shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in
+Added: the Warrant Agreement.
+Added: This choice-of-forum provision
+Added: may limit a warrant holder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with the Company,
+Added: which may discourage such lawsuits.
+Added: Alternatively, if a court were to find this provision of the Warrant Agreement inapplicable or unenforceable
+Added: with respect to one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving
+Added: such matters in other jurisdictions, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations
+Added: and result in a diversion of the time and resources of our management or Board.
+Added: If we do not file and maintain a current
+Added: and effective prospectus relating to the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of our warrants, warrant holders will only be able to exercise
+Added: such warrants on a “cashless basis.”
+Added: If we do not file and maintain
+Added: a current and effective prospectus relating to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of our warrants at the time that holders
+Added: wish to exercise such warrants, they will only be able to exercise them on a “cashless basis” provided that an exemption
+Added: from registration is available.
+Added: As a result, the number of shares of our Common Stock that holders will receive upon exercise of our
+Added: warrants will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised such warrant for cash.
+Added: Further, if an exemption from registration
+Added: is not available, holders will not be able to exercise on a cashless basis and will only be able to exercise their warrants for cash
+Added: if a prospectus relating to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of our warrants is filed and effective.
+Added: Under the terms
+Added: of the Warrant Agreement, ewe have agreed to use our best efforts to meet these conditions and to file and maintain a current and effective
+Added: prospectus relating to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of our warrants, until the expiration of our warrants.
+Added: we cannot assure you that it will be able to do so.
+Added: If we are unable to do so, the potential value of the holder’s warrants may
+Added: be reduced or such warrants may expire worthless.
+Added: Risks Related to Finance, Accounting and Tax Matters
+Added: Our actual results could differ from the estimates and assumptions
+Added: used to prepare our consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The preparation of our consolidated
+Added: financial statements in conformity with U.S.
+Added: GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts
+Added: of certain assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses for the periods covered and certain amounts disclosed in the notes to our consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: These estimates are based on information available through the date of the issuance of the consolidated financial
+Added: statements and actual results could differ from those estimates, which could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition,
+Added: results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: We may need to raise additional funds and
+Added: these funds may not be available to us when needed.
+Added: If we cannot raise additional funds when we need them, our business, prospects, financial
+Added: condition and operating results could be negatively affected.
+Added: The sourcing, purchasing,
+Added: development, and servicing of our projects may be capital-intensive.
+Added: We may determine that additional funds are necessary.
+Added: may be necessary to fund our future operations and to locate new opportunities.
+Added: We may raise additional funds through the issuance of
+Added: equity, equity related or debt securities or through obtaining credit from government or financial institutions.
+Added: We cannot be certain
+Added: that additional funds will be available on favorable terms when required, or at all.
+Added: If we cannot raise additional funds when needed,
+Added: our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: Our financial results may vary significantly from quarter to
+Added: We expect our revenue and
+Added: operating results to vary from quarter to quarter.
+Added: We may incur significant operating expenses during the start-up and early stages
+Added: of large contracts and may not be able to recognize corresponding revenue in that same quarter.
+Added: We may also incur additional expenses
+Added: when contracts are terminated or expire and are not renewed.
+Added: We may also incur additional expenses when companies are newly acquired.
+Added: Payments that may be due to us from our future customers may be delayed due to billing cycles or as a result of failures of government
+Added: budgets to gain congressional and administration approval in a timely manner.
+Added: Additional factors that
+Added: may cause our financial results to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include those addressed elsewhere in this “ Risk Factors ”
+Added: section, including the immediately preceding risk factor, and the following factors, among others:
+Added: ● variability
+Added: in demand for our services and solutions;
+Added: of award or performance incentive fee notices;
+Added: of shipments and deliveries to potential future customers;
+Added: purchasing patterns under blanket purchase agreements and other indefinite delivery/indefinite
+Added: quantity contracts;
+Added: of potential future contracts which may affect the timing of revenue recognition;
+Added: related to government inquiries;
+Added: decisions by us or our competitors, such as acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and
+Added: joint ventures;
+Added: investments or changes in business strategy;
+Added: in the extent to which we use subcontractors;
+Added: performance errors in our systems;
+Added: fluctuations in our staff utilization rates;
+Added: in our effective tax rate, including changes in our judgment as to the necessity of the valuation
+Added: allowance recorded against our deferred tax assets;
+Added: length of sales cycles.
+Added: We could be subject to additional tax liabilities.
+Added: We are subject to federal,
+Added: state, and local income taxes in the United States.
+Added: Determining our provision for income taxes requires significant management judgment,
+Added: and the ultimate tax outcome may be uncertain.
+Added: In addition, our provision for income taxes is subject to volatility and could be adversely
+Added: affected by many factors, including, among other things, changes to our operating or holding structure, changes in the amounts of earnings
+Added: in jurisdictions with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, and changes in
+Added: Tax authorities may disagree with our calculation of research and development tax credits, cross-jurisdictional transfer
+Added: pricing, or other matters and assess additional taxes, interest, or penalties.
+Added: While we regularly assess the likely outcomes of these
+Added: examinations to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes and we believe that our financial statements reflect adequate
+Added: reserves to cover any such contingencies, there can be no assurance that the outcomes of such examinations will not have a material impact
+Added: on our results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: If tax authorities change applicable tax laws, our overall taxes could increase, and our
+Added: financial condition or results of operations may be adversely impacted.
+Added: Unanticipated changes in effective tax
+Added: rates or adverse outcomes resulting from examination of our income or other tax returns could adversely affect our financial condition
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: We are subject to income
+Added: taxes in the United States and other jurisdictions, and our tax liabilities are subject to the allocation of expenses in differing jurisdictions.
+Added: Our future effective tax rates could be subject to volatility or adversely affected by a number of factors, including:
+Added: in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities;
+Added: timing and amount of the release of any tax valuation allowances;
+Added: effects of stock-based compensation;
+Added: related to intercompany restructurings;
+Added: in tax laws, regulations or interpretations thereof;
+Added: than anticipated future earnings in jurisdictions where we have lower statutory tax rates
+Added: and higher than anticipated future earnings in jurisdictions where we have higher statutory
+Added: In addition, we may be subject to audits of our
+Added: income, sales and other transaction taxes by taxing authorities.
+Added: Outcomes from these audits could have an adverse effect on our financial
+Added: condition and results of operations.
+Added: The issuance and sale of additional shares
+Added: of Common Stock under the Purchase Agreement may result in dilution to our stockholders and have a negative impact on the market price
+Added: of our Common Stock.
+Added: From time to time following
+Added: the effectiveness of this registration statement, we may direct Westwood to purchase shares of our Common Stock under the Purchase Agreement.
+Added: The purchase price for shares will be based on the lowest daily volume weighted average price of our Common Stock during a three consecutive
+Added: trading day period following delivery of a purchase notice, less a 5% discount.
+Added: Because this price is based on prevailing market prices
+Added: at the time of each sale, if our stock price declines, we might need to issue more shares to raise the same amount of funding.
+Added: While we have the right
+Added: to control the timing and amount of sales under the Purchase Agreement, subject to certain conditions, any such issuances would result
+Added: in dilution to our existing stockholders.
+Added: The extent of dilution will depend on numerous factors, including:
+Added: market price of our Common Stock at the time of each sale
+Added: number of shares we ultimately sell to Westwood
+Added: sales of our Common Stock that we may make from time to time
+Added: Moreover, additional issuances
+Added: of Common Stock under the Purchase Agreement could have a negative impact on the market price of our Common Stock.
+Added: This in turn could:
+Added: the dilution to existing stockholders from future issuances
+Added: our ability to raise additional capital through other equity offerings
+Added: it more difficult to meet the Nasdaq continued listing requirements
+Added: We are not in compliance with the Nasdaq
+Added: continued listing requirements.
+Added: If we are unable to comply with the continued listing requirements of The Nasdaq Capital Market, our
+Added: common stock could be delisted, which could affect our common stock’s market price and liquidity and reduce our ability to raise
+Added: March 7, 2025, Thunder Power Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) received a notification letter from the
+Added: Nasdaq Listing Qualifications department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Company has not regained
+Added: compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rules 5450(a)(1), which requires the Company’s listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price
+Added: of $1.00 per share (the “Bid Price Rule”) and 5450(b)(2)(A), which requires the Company to maintain a minimum Market Value
+Added: of Listed Securities (“MVLS”) of $50,000,000 (the “MVLS Rule”).
+Added: Accordingly, the Nasdaq Staff has determined
+Added: that the Company’s securities will be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market.
+Added: Unless the Company requests an appeal of Nasdaq’s
+Added: determination, trading of the Company’s common stock will be suspended at the opening of business on March 18, 2025, and a Form
+Added: 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which will remove the Company’s securities from listing and registration
+Added: on The Nasdaq Stock Market.
+Added: previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 6, 2024, Nasdaq notified the Company on September
+Added: 4, 2024 that, based upon the closing bid price for the Company’s common stock for the 30 prior consecutive business days, the Company
+Added: no longer satisfied the Bid Price Rule, and that it had been provided a 180-calendar day grace period to regain compliance with that
+Added: requirement, through March 3, 2025.
+Added: As disclosed in the same Form 8-K, Nasdaq also notified the Company that it was not in compliance
+Added: with the MVLS Rule based upon the Company’s MVLS for the previous 30 consecutive business days, and that it had been provided a
+Added: 180-calendar day grace period to regain compliance with that requirement, through March 3, 2025.
+Added: can be no assurances that the Panel will grant our request for a hearing or a stay on its suspension of our securities.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: there can be no assurances that the Panel will provide a decision in our favor after the hearing, or that we will be able to remain in
+Added: compliance with the applicable Nasdaq listing requirements on an ongoing basis.
+Added: If our common stock is delisted,
+Added: it could be more difficult to buy or sell our common stock and to obtain accurate quotations, and the price of our common stock could
+Added: suffer a material decline.
+Added: Delisting could also impair the liquidity of our common stock and could harm our ability to raise capital
+Added: through alternative financing sources on terms acceptable to us, or at all, and may result in potential loss of confidence by investors,
+Added: employees, and fewer business development opportunities.
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