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Daar zal een zucht van opluchting geslaakt worden.De firma BESTAAT nog maar om andermans wagens te bouwen en het begint allemaal uit te lopen..
Het is natuurlijk maar de vraag of dat ganse Canoo EV-gedoe geen luchtblaas is,zoals men op de oude Caterpillar-site in Charleroi al ervaren heeft met een Chinees....
Een automerk opstarten is geen sinecure.Dat konden we aan de wilde rit van Tesla wel zien...
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Canoo wil met Nedcar alleszins voldoende tijd winnen want hun nieuwe US-fabriek in Tulsa moet nog gebouwd worden en zal pas in 2023 klaar zijn voor productie.
Gisterenavond dit nieuws, of ref [32] wikipedia:
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/2...les-vdl-nedcar
Canoo will build its electric vehicles at a new Oklahoma factory
The California startup’s new facility will open in 2023
By Sean O'Kane@sokane1 Jun 17, 2021
California EV startup Canoo announced Thursday that it plans to build its electric vehicles at a new factory to be built outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The startup claims the facility will create “more than 2,000 jobs” and that it will open in 2023.
The facility will be built on a 400-acre site at the MidAmerica Industrial Park complex in Pryor, Oklahoma. It will house a paint shop, body shop, and general assembly plant, according to Canoo, which is calling the facility a “mega microfactory.”
But since Canoo wants to put its first vehicle — an electric van first announced in 2019 — into production by the end of 2022, it will have the first units built by a contract manufacturer in the Netherlands called VDL Nedcar. Canoo says VDL Nedcar will build “up to 1,000 vehicles” for both the US and European markets in 2022 and is targeting 15,000 vehicles in 2023.
Canoo, which went public at the end of 2020 and raised around $600 million in the process, also plans to build an electric delivery vehicle that is adaptable for other small business use cases, as well as an electric pickup truck. All three vehicles are built on the same compact platform, which houses the battery pack, the motors, and pretty much all of the electronics. While a number of automakers and suppliers are developing EV platforms, Canoo’s compact packaging drew interest from Hyundai and Apple — though a deal with Hyundai is now dead, and talks with Apple broke down.
Tony Aquila, who took over as CEO of Canoo earlier this year, said in a statement that the startup ran a “multi-state competition and invested millions of dollars to find the right manufacturing facility.”
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Canoo zag zelfs af van de deal met Hyundai voor een E-platform (na 1 jaar al). Naja die hebben genoeg werk om hun eigen EV-productie op te voeren.
Die up-to-date timeline is te vinden op wiki:
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- In February 2020, Hyundai Motor Group, the parent company of Hyundai Motors and Kia Motors, announced that the company will partner with Canoo on the joint development of a new electric vehicle platform. The platform would be utilized for compact vehicles as well as fleet vehicles such as shuttles. The deal is part of Hyundai's Strategy 2025 program which will see Hyundai investing $87 billion USD for five years starting in 2020.[11][12][13]
- In July 2020, co-founder Stefan Krause left the company. He had previously taken an extended leave of absence from Canoo in August 2019 in order to address family matters. Co-founder Ulrich Kranz assumed the role of permanent CEO upon Krause's departure.[14][15]
- In September 2020, Canoo announced a merger with the special purpose acquisition company Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV. (NASDAQ:HCACU.O), with the intent to list Canoo on the NASDAQ with a valuation of $2.4 billion.[17] The expectation was to raise $300 million to help finance the production of the Canoo minivan, planned for launch in 2022.[18][19] On December 22, 2020, Canoo completed its merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp IV. and was listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol (NASDAQ:GOEV).[20]
- A few days before its stock exchange entry, the company announced its MPDV - Multi-Purpose Delivery Vehicle - product line. The entry level van is expected to sell for $33,000 when it arrives in limited quantities in 2022, ramping up to volume production in 2023.[21][22][23][24]
- In mid-January 2021, The Verge reported that, in the first half of 2020, Canoo had been in talks with tech giant Apple for a potential role in its secretive Titan car project.[25][26]
- On March 11, 2021, Canoo announced an electric pick-up truck set to release in 2023.[27][28] Canoo will offer both single-motor and dual-motor all-wheel drive options for their pick-up truck, with the latter being capable of producing 600 horsepower and 550 foot-pounds of torque.[27] The company also said that the truck will have 200+ miles (322 km) of range and a 1,800 pound payload capacity.[27] After the announcement, shares of the company rose by 14%.[28]
- It was later announced in March 2021 that Canoo had terminated it's partnership with Hyundai Motor Group due to a change in corporate strategy. The company also announced that it would shift away from vehicle subscriptions to selling commercial vehicles.[29]
- On April 22, 2021, the company announced that co-founder and CEO Ulrich Kranz was stepping down and would be replaced by Chairman Tony Aquilla as CEO.[30]
- In April 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into Canoo after its merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV due to a string of executive departures, sudden changes to its business model, and class-action lawsuits brought by shareholders.[31]
- On June 17, 2021 the company announced they would build a new factory just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma to manufacture all of their future vehicles.[32]
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