Trucks -- ELMS, Mullen, Canoo -- August 5, 2023

Locator: 45349EVS.

Updates

December 21, 2023: Mullen is up 75% today.

• This was another company a lot of folks like when it bought a bankrupt EV company. Here where we are today.
• Mullen has just announced a 100-1 reverse split.

Original Post

Warning: all readers should skip this page. I did this for my own benefit because I was starting to lose the bubble.

This is re-capping a rabbit hole from which acabo de volver. 

LOL.

It all started when I realized I omitted ELMS from my EV scorecard. Or if it's there, which it probably is, I missed it.

Long story short: ELMS went bankrupt; was bought by Mullan.

Mullan will roll out its class 3 truck on August 24, 2023.

Links:

• ELMS went bankrupt; will be bought by Mullen, October 19, 2022.
• Don't give up on Mullen yet -- Investor Place, August 4, 2023. 

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Tickers

ELMS:

MULN:

From the link above:

Mullen / ELMS: 

The $240 million cash purchase allows Mullen the capability to build up to 50,000 EVs annually, accelerating the launch of the Mullen FIVE and Bollinger B1 and B2 retail vehicles. The deal also gives Mullen control over ELMS’s inventory, intellectual property rights and plant in Mishawaka, Indiana.

Mullen, which went public in a 2021 SPAC merger, is in growth mode, acquiring in September a 60% controlling interest in Bollinger Motors, a Michigan-based startup that aimed to build battery-electric commercial trucks and off-road pickups. Electric Last Mile Solutions, another Michigan startup, filed for bankruptcy in June, less than a year after it went public through a $1.4 billion SPAC deal.

Several startups that went public in high-profile reverse mergers over the past couple of years have faced bankruptcy, SEC scrutiny or cash crunches. The purchase of ELMS will allow Mullen to “to shorten its production path and aggressively expand into the commercial and consumer EV market,” David Michery, CEO and chairman of Mullen Automotive, said in a statement.

The automaker plans to build the Mullen FIVE, as well as the Mullen Class 1 and Class 3 commercial delivery vehicles expected next year, at its factory in Tunica, Mississippi. In addition to the Mullen FIVE slated to enter production in 2024, the company plans to build the Five RS, an “ultra-high-performance EV sport crossover” with 1,000 horsepower, a top speed of 200 mph and 0-to-60 acceleration under two seconds.

Break, break. I also forgot to include Canoo (GOEV) on the EV scorecard, and any updates, or maybe I did and I forgot. I do remember the Canoo - NASA tie-up some month ago.

Today:

Ticker, GOEV:

Press release.

From wiki:

Probability of bankruptcy: link here.

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Truck Classification

In a long note like this, there will be typographical and content errors, errors of omission and commission. If this is important to you, go to the source.

See wiki.

Vehicle classification in the US.

Light duty.

• Class 1: passenger cars and really, really light-weight pickup trucks like the Ford Ranger, Toyota Tacoma, Nissan Frontier.

• The F-150 is almost a class 1, but it falls into the the class 2 category, but class 2 is the only class further broken into class 2a and 2b. So, the F-150 "upsets" the "trend" that one sees below. 

• Class 2a: F-150

• Class 2b: F-250

Medium duty.

• Class 3: F-350

• Now, it gets a bit interesting. An F-350 is a class 3 truck but an F-450 comes in both the class 3 flavor and the class 4 favor. 
• so, Ford markets two class 3 pick-up trucks: the F-350 and the F-450
• class 3 F-450: the typical pick-up truck;
• class 4 F-450: just the cab and the chassis; no "box." It's like the typical urban tow trucks one sees everywhere picking up stalled EVs

• Class 4: F-450 (chassis only model, as noted above)

A trend is starting to develop, continuing with medium duty.

• Class 5: F-550

• Class 6: F-650

Heavy duty

• Class 7 26,001 - 33,000 pounds.: F-750; Kenworth K370, Mack MD, Peterbilt 220 and 337/348, etc.

• Class 8, 33,001 - 80,000 pounds: Volvo Truck VNL, Freightliner Cascadia, Ford F-750, Kenworths, Nikola TRE, Peterbilts, Western Stars, and so on. 

I figured out the nomenclature using the quarter-ton, half-ton, three-quarter-ton naming, but now the "class nomenclature" makes sense. Whether it was planned that way or not.