EV start-up Electrical Final Mile Answers plans to claim chapter a 12 months after going public

The ELMS City Supply, expected to release later this 12 months, is anticipated to be the primary Elegance 1 industrial electrical car to be had within the U.S. marketplace and can be produced on the Corporate’s facility in Mishawaka, Indiana.

Electrical Final Mile Answers

EV start-up Electrical Final Mile Answers mentioned overdue Sunday it plans to record for chapter not up to a 12 months after it went public by way of a merger with a distinct function acquisition corporate.

The Michigan-based maker of electrical industrial vehicles mentioned in a unencumber that meantime CEO Shauna McIntyre and its board of administrators determined on Sunday to record for Bankruptcy 7 chapter coverage, which is able to permit it to liquidate its belongings, after a “complete evaluation of the corporate’s merchandise and commercialization plans” grew to become up no more sensible choice for stakeholders.

ELMS’ public providing, in overdue June 2021, got here amid a wave of SPAC offers that took EV makers public. The corporate is the primary of the ones post-SPAC EV makers to mention that it’ll claim chapter.

McIntyre has served as meantime CEO since February, when founder Jason Luo and then-CEO Jim Taylor left the suffering start-up after an interior investigation discovered that the corporate’s previous monetary statements had been unreliable.

ELMS mentioned in a commentary that the ones government departures, and a similar investigation by way of the Securities and Alternate Fee, had made it “extraordinarily difficult” to protected further investment.