London-based
Tevva, a pioneer in electric medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, and US-based
ElectraMeccanica, a designer and assembler of electric vehicles (EVs), have announced plans to merge to accelerate their combined ability to capture the emerging opportunity in commercial electric trucks.
Tevva recently commenced deliveries of its 7.5t battery-electric truck to commercial fleet customers focused on urban delivery – a critical and high-growth segment of the overall commercial truck market for delivery-dependent urban areas. Tevva supports its current product with a unique and purpose-built, commercial-grade electric battery system, and its future product portfolio is being developed to include a proprietary hydrogen range-extender technology, which delivers a differentiated and sustainable dual-energy solution. Tevva’s existing 110,000ft
2 EV manufacturing facility in Tilbury, would be complemented by ElectraMeccanica's recently-commissioned 235,000ft
2 facility in Mesa, Arizona, which is expected to enable the combined company to scale its production to serve the UK, European and US markets.
David Roberts, director of Tevva and anticipated incoming executive chairman, following the merger, said: “Since Tevva’s founding more than 10 years ago, we have focused our engineering and product development capabilities on developing a portfolio of zero-emission commercial vehicles that have generated significant customer interest.
“Our vehicles have undertaken more than 300,000 miles of testing and operating experience in real-world conditions by demanding fleet operators. We are excited to merge with ElectraMeccanica and accelerate the growth of the combined company. Throughout the process, we have been impressed with ElectraMeccanica's management team and strongly believe that ElectraMeccanica’s complementary assets, skills and capital will further enhance our advantages in this large and rapidly growing market.”
ElectraMeccanica CEO Susan Docherty said:“We are incredibly excited to partner with Tevva given their unique engineering expertise in an essential segment of a large and growing market. We believe this is the right time and Tevva is the right partner with which to pivot from consumer vehicles to commercial vehicles and respond to commercial fleet customer demand for superior, reliable and cost-efficient trucks. The complementary operations of the two companies and our similar values and mission give me complete confidence we can jointly create significant shareholder value. Tevva is extremely well positioned in the UK and European market and our world-class manufacturing facilities, combined experienced senior executive team and balance sheet will help take our combined company to the next level.”
Steven Sanders, chairman of the ElectraMeccanica board of directors, said: “By partnering with Tevva, we are providing our shareholders with a unique opportunity to participate in the accelerated and technology-driven growth prospects of the combined company in ways that also logically extend and leverage ElectraMeccanica’s existing assets and strengths.”
Upon the closing of the proposed transaction, ElectraMeccanica shareholders will own 23.5% of the combined company and Tevva shareholders will own 76.5% of the combined company on a fully diluted basis and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023.