Item 2. Properties
Item 2.
Properties.
We currently own one facility in Changxing, China, which is approximately 165,800 square feet, and is primarily used for engineering and production of vehicle kits of the
Metro® and assembly of certain ECV models for export and logistics operations. We currently lease nine facilities and offices located in the United States, Germany, Mexico and China. One of our existing United States facilities located in
Freehold, New Jersey, is approximately 9,750 square feet and is used primarily for the trial production of our Logistar™ 400 model and warehousing. Our second existing facility in Freehold, New Jersey is approximately 2,600 square feet and is
used as our corporate headquarters. The third facility in Howell, New Jersey includes two units with a combined space of 41,160 square feet and is used to supplement the first New Jersey facility for production. Our leased China facility is
located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, with approximately 15,456 square feet of office space primarily used as regional headquarters, as well as for research and development, supply-chain management, and sales operations.
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In January 2022, we established a European Operations Center in Dusseldorf, Germany, which provides marketing support, after-market support and spare-parts warehousing for the
European market. Our European Operations Center is approximately 27,220 square feet. We have also established a local assembly facility in Jacksonville, Florida, where we plan to assemble the Logistar™ 400 and the Teemak™ for eventual sale in
the North American market. We began trial assembling operations at the Jacksonville facility in March 2023. As of the date of this report, we also leased another EV Center in Jacksonville, Florida of approximately 12,000 square feet as our
flagship EV Center for sales and support functions.
In addition, in connection with our acquisition of TME, we utilize TME’s facility in Herne, Germany, where we are expanding local assembly capacity in the
European Union for production of our European ECV models, including the Teemak® and Logistar™ series, in addition to the Metro®. In November 2022, we leased a 112,332 square feet manufacturing facility
located in the Aero Industrial Park in Monterrey, Mexico that will house our wholly owned Mexican subsidiary, Cennatic Energy, S. DE R.L. DE C.V. (“Cennatic Energy”). Cennatic Energy will manufacture lithium-ion batteries for electric
commercial vehicles. The purpose of the facility is to enhance the independence of our supply chain for essential components.
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