Greetings. Welcome to the Ideanomics and VIA shareholders conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Tony Sklar, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin. Good day, everybody, and thank you so much, operator. Thank you to all participants on this call today. This is the Ideanomics and VIA Motors acquisition update conference call. Joining me, I am pleased to have Mr. Bob Purcell, Chief Executive Officer of VIA Motors, Mr. Alfred Poor, Chief Executive Officer of Ideanomics, and Mr. Robin Mackie, President of Ideanomics Mobility. A webcast of today's call will be prepared and available on our corporate website for a minimum of 30 days. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. Before we begin, it's important to point out that this discussion will contain forward-looking statements with respect to the proposed transaction, including statements regarding the benefits of the transaction, the expected consideration, and the anticipated timing of the transaction. Forward-looking statements are, by their nature, subject to risks and uncertainties. You are cautioned not to put undue reliance on the forward-looking statements. In addition, other risks are more fully described in the Ideanomics public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be viewed at www.sec.gov. As previously announced on August 30th, 2021, Ideanomics announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire VIA Motors International for an aggregate consideration about $630 million in an all-stock transaction for a 100% ownership stake, subject to customary closing conditions and Ideanomics shareholder approval. Today's call will provide an update to that transaction. The format of today's call will be as follows. Mr. Alfred Poor, CEO of Ideanomics, will give a general background on the logistics of the deal. Mr. Bob Purcell, CEO of VIA, will give an update on VIA Motors. Mr. Robin Mackie, President of Ideanomics Mobility, will speak to how VIA Motors will fit into Ideanomics Mobility. If time permits, management will take a few questions at the end. I am now very excited to hand over to Mr. Alfred Poor, CEO of Ideanomics. Good day, everyone, and thank you, Tony. I'm pleased to speak with you about progress regarding bringing VIA Motors into the Ideanomics family, a deal which is expected to close in Q3. Before we begin, I wanted to address our shareholders' concerns regarding our delayed filings. Please be assured we're doing all that we can to get our filings done as quickly as possible, and we're in the final stages of wrapping up with our auditors. We ask for your continued patience in the coming days as we finalize the filings. As Tony mentioned, the purpose of today's call is to provide an update regarding Ideanomics' acquisition of VIA Motors. The deal is still very much moving forward and we look forward to having VIA Motors join the Ideanomics family in due course. As a reminder, as Tony just mentioned, Ideanomics reached a deal for VIA Motors with a base transaction price of $450 million, with up to $180 million in earn-out. Both VIA and Ideanomics shareholders have been affected with the capital markets downward movement in the past year. VIA remains a perfect strategic fit for Ideanomics. Not only does this acquisition represent a transformational milestone for Ideanomics as the largest acquisition in the company's history, but VIA will also further enhance our ability to achieve our mission to accelerate commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By adding tremendous experience, innovation, and technical expertise, VIA will bring to us an asset for all of our operations in the commercial EV market. The management teams have been working together and speaking with multiple states to determine the right location for the manufacturing facilities. In addition, our teams, such as the team in WAVE and the teams at VIA, have been talking around potential for integration between the obvious connection between vehicle and charging opportunities. It's a very exciting part of the market and something fleet operators ask us often about when we speak about both VIA and our charging systems. I'll let Robin discuss more about how VIA Motors fits into Ideanomics Mobility strategy moving forward. At this time, I'd like to turn over to Bob Purcell, CEO of VIA Motors, so he can provide an update about VIA. Over to you, Bob. Thank you, Alf. Good day to everyone. I'm Bob Purcell, CEO of VIA Motors. Thank you and welcome to our VIA shareholders who are joining us today. First of all, I wanna make an observation that we recognize today the commercial EV industry capital markets are down. With Ideanomics financial and other support during this time, we're able to continue our progress, including hiring many experienced people from leading electric vehicle manufacturers, including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Tesla. Our team is growing and we are progressing with our testing and product development, sourcing, and outreach. We at VIA are truly excited to be joining the Ideanomics family. Our modular skateboard platform is a great strategic fit with the Ideanomics end-to-end EV mobility ecosystem. It allows us to build a cost-effective portfolio of both delivery vans and trucks for the market. This year we will start building our pre-production prototype vehicles and have already chosen our battery and drive motor suppliers. Additionally, we have been taking our drivable demo vehicles, both Class 3 cargo van and cab chassis, to customer events and trade shows. Receiving many positive reviews and encouragement from the industry. As you can see, VIA continues to progress in becoming a leading EV OEM, and we are excited to support Ideanomics in the accelerated adoption of commercial electric vehicles. According to the Bloomberg forecast data, the global market for light duty electric vehicles is set to double by the year 2037. We believe this represents a tremendous opportunity for VIA to not only be part of this remarkable movement toward electrification of commercial vehicles, but also to continue to be an innovator in the market. VIA joining Ideanomics enables leveraging of product development and marketing across the subsidiaries, solutions for charging infrastructure, financing of both vehicles and charging, and sourcing of propulsion components. We look forward to completing the merger and continued growth together. Again, we are excited to join the Ideanomics family as a growing leader in the EV commercial space. Thank you, Alf. With that, I will hand it over to Mr. Robin Mackie. Thanks, Bob. Listen, we at Ideanomics are very excited to incorporate VIA Motors' proprietary skateboard platform, its proven management team and its experienced employees into the Ideanomics family, as previously stated. This acquisition is aligned with our long-term strategy and provides us with leadership position in the rapidly growing last mile delivery market, and yet another path to accelerate Ideanomics' path and growth to profitability. As we mentioned in the transaction call in September 2021, this acquisition will provide Ideanomics with full OEM manufacturing capabilities in commercial vehicle classifications from two to five. That, when combined with Ideanomics Energy and Capital, will support our customers' mass adoption of commercial electric vehicles with confidence. As we're aware, fleet managers have to navigate an increasingly complex electrification process, from vehicle selection and financing, to charger installation and energy management. The decision to transition to an electric commercial fleet is simply the start of a complex journey for these fleet managers. Ideanomics is striving to become the full service partner that can help them navigate that journey. In working towards our mission to accelerate commercial adoption of electric vehicles, Ideanomics has built a set of service offerings that include vehicles, charging, and financing solutions to facilitate that very transition. These combine to form our charging as a service and vehicle as a service business models, which are both underpinned by Ideanomics Capital. With the addition of VIA Motors to the Ideanomics family, we'll be adding a purpose-built commercial EV platform for customers in the high growth last mile and mid mile delivery sectors, with the ability to extend the platform to other applications over time, leveraging the inherent flexibility of VIA's modular skateboard. The Via team's decades of experience in automotive have allowed them to design one of the most cost-effective vehicles to market, driving lower total cost of ownership for our customers. Additionally, we see a number of opportunities for technical collaboration between Via and other companies across the Ideanomics organization. One example, as previously mentioned, is the potential collaboration between Via and WAVE and the integration of our high power wireless charging technology, providing an enhanced product with time-saving benefits for the operator. In a world where more vehicles move towards autonomous operations, wireless charging becomes an even more critical component. Bringing these types of forward-looking technologies together under the Ideanomics umbrella is a central part of the value we can unlock in these growth markets. In addition to Via's product offering, we are also excited to have their experienced team become part of the overall Ideanomics family. We know their team will help Ideanomics in its mission to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. Again, it's a transformative deal for Ideanomics as we continue to grow the commercial EV space, and we're committed to supporting Via as they move toward product launch and scale production. Finally, as I stated before, we're excited to welcome Bob and his team to the Ideanomics family. I'll hand it back to you, Alf. Thank you very much. Maybe we lost Alf. Apologies, guys. I was on mute. Nope. There we go. That's all right. You're back. You're all right. Thank you, Bob and Robin. Thank you, Tony. As Robin just said, you know, we're very eager to welcome VIA Motors into the Ideanomics family. We're excited for what the future brings. We believe the transaction will accelerate all of our strategic plans and bring tremendous opportunities and value both to our customers and our shareholders. Thank you very much. I'll hand this back to Tony Sklar at this point. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much, Bob, Robin, and Alf. This concludes the management's prepared remarks, and now we're gonna have a chance to take a few questions from our Say platform. Last week when we announced this call, we asked our shareholders to log into the Say platform, verify their shareholdings and be able to ask particular questions. We do have three that we're gonna go through. I'm gonna read the first one now, and I believe the first question is, what is the exchange rate value of the deal now, and how does that affect the valuation? This question is for Bob Purcell of VIA Motors. Thank you, Tony. Well, as we all know, the commercial EV capital markets have been pressured over the last year, with stock prices falling an average of over 70%. The merger agreement provides that the exchange ratio will remain the same without regard to share price fluctuations. Via shareholders will receive approximately 2.2%-2.5% Ideanomics shares for each Via share they currently hold. I'd like to add to that, if I can, as well. You know, the most fair way to do it, to stop the fluctuation in the markets that Bob spoke about, was to do a fixed share ratio. I believe that the market priced in the dilution for this deal, but it didn't price in the value of VIA Motors. Bob said something very interesting in his remarks, which is, you know, Ideanomics and VIA have continued, and in some cases accelerated the investment into VIA Motors, to ensure that their engineering stays on track and we can meet the demands of the fleet customers who are demoing and testing our vehicles at this time. It's really important to understand that because we haven't seen the value of VIA reflected in the Ideanomics share price yet. We've only seen the dilution. I think dilution always gets factored in when you announce a deal of this size. The incoming VIA investors, which is why it's sometimes called an acquisition, sometimes called a merger. It's because they want that 40% of the stock provided in this deal to close. Once the value gets baked into the market and people understand what VIA Motors is and how valuable it is both to Ideanomics and to the commercial fleet association, then those VIA shareholders as well as those Ideanomics shareholders should start to come back into a position where they've got a healthy return on their investment. Well said. I think that some of your narrative might roll into what the next question is here, which is what innovations or exciting products can we expect to see here in the near future? It's a question more for Bob and Robin, if you guys wanna take this one. Very happy to- I can wax lyrical on the VIA truck, you know, because I'm excited about it. I've driven it and I've been out with deliveries with it. You guys are the engineers. I'd prefer you to talk about the, you know, what's exciting about the vehicle today and more so tomorrow. Well, why don't we leave the VIA vehicle to Bob, and I'll just touch on some of the things that are happening in Ideanomics. Great, Robin. I'll take it. Well, the primary innovation at VIA Motors is what I spoke about and Robin spoke about in terms of a proprietary modular skateboard platform. Just so everyone understands what that means, it means you have a common chassis and drive system that is the fundamental architecture of every vehicle that we will build. We will actually have skateboards in different size classes to accommodate different classes of vehicles. It will be used for both the delivery vans and for the cab chassis trucks, which you saw pictures of as demo vehicles today. Both of those classes of vehicles will be coming to market and be available in different wheelbases as well as sizes of the cargo area. What I'm very excited about with VIA is we'll be able to offer a full range of products, you know, from Class 2 - 5 in both van and cab chassis configurations that share many common components. Okay. This is what enables us to cost-effectively build a portfolio, not just a single vehicle. I think that is gonna bode well for VIA and certainly for Ideanomics, as we can offer a range of vehicles that then we can leverage the additional support and, you know, including financing, Vehicle as a Service, Charging as a Service, with us being part of the overall Ideanomics portfolio. We're really excited. I think we've approached this the right way. We intend to become a functional OEM in the industry, and that's what it's all about. Robin? Yeah. Thanks, Bob. Appreciate that. It is exciting, and I've spent a lot of time with the team looking at the technology, and it's very impressive. You get a chance to see it face to face as investors, it's well worth the effort to go and look at it. From the Ideanomics perspective, we have a portfolio of exciting things going on. I'm not going to go into all of it. Clearly, we are making great steps forward in terms of our charging, Ideanomics Energy, in terms of the growth that's taking place and the technology developments at our WAVE subsidiary around induction charging, you know, at the 500 kilowatt level. I mean, if we pivot across to the recent news that's in the press about Energica, our investment in Italy in a high-powered motorcycle business. They have successfully launched their new product to rave reviews. The product goes head-to-head with many IC engine equivalents in that particular market sector. It is a wonderful product, not only to look at, but also to ride. I've done many miles on it. In other areas, we continue to look at the off-highway or agritech market with Solectrac. We're starting to leverage the relationships across the organization to improve their drivetrain technology by working with companies like Energica and US Hybrid. Very slowly but surely, we're starting to fulfill Alf Poor's vision of being able to take the various technology investments that we've made over the past two years and bring them to bear in the products within the various verticals that we have. It's looking very much like an exciting 2022 and 2023 in terms of products that we will see start to come to the market. Fantastic, Robin. Thank you. Thank you for that. We've actually gone over the allotted time that we had, so Alf, if you wanted to have any particular closing remarks, now is a great time. Otherwise, we are going to end. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would love to just say one thing finally, and maybe Bob and Robin would have something additional to say here. You know, it's very interesting as the group's coming together that, you know, we think we've got a, you know, just amazing amount of technology and people within the group. We're starting to get, you know, from other parties. I think whether we look at, you know, some of our mature companies in terms of the engineering and the technology like VIA and like Energica, we're starting to see three markets. One of them is, of course, our direct-to-market products. You know, Energica sells obviously, primarily to the consumer market, but they do sell some of their motorbikes to police forces and municipal. We're seeing two other markets as well, and I think we're seeing some of this with VIA as well, as Bob and Robin can attest. There's another two interesting markets developing. One is those, OEM partners or others in the industry who are struggling to put their electrification strategy in place. These are difficult-to-tame technologies that Bob and the team at Energica, the team's done an amazing job of becoming proficient in. There's folks who can't get their electrification strategy on, you know, where they need it to be. There's another one, which is those that haven't started their electrification strategy. It may sound strange, but there's plenty of OEMs out there, both in the two-wheeler and the four-wheeler and many-wheeler markets, that have not yet started their electrification strategy. We're starting to see a lot of interest coming into the assets within the Ideanomics group to say, "Hey, we know you sell direct to market. Is there a potential for us to work with your platforms so we can get our own products out to market? 'Cause your level of engineering and proficiency you're achieving in companies like VIA Motors and like Energica is really the best in class." I don't know if Bob or Robin, you guys wanna add anything to that. I think, I would just agree with you, Alf, in terms of this. We're seeing interest in Energica's technology, which has been developed in-house within other markets that are non-competing with the high-performance motorcycle market. This is coming from areas such as aviation and even small construction equipment manufacturers as well, asking for support into how they might actually electrify their products over the next coming few years. Yes, I can reinforce that. It's a very interesting time at the moment. Yeah. If I might add just a couple of quick comments here. You know, we've been talking a lot about technology and markets and business opportunity, but in the end, companies are made up of people, okay? That's what's most important. What I have really been impressed with is the chemistry between the two organizations. The ability to work together and solve problems together in a very open and constructive way. When you're putting together, you know, new relationships like this, you know, mergers, acquisitions, however you wanna phrase it, the chemistry between the organizations is critically important to success. At least I found that in my career, and I think we're off to a great start in that regard. Very open relationship and very constructive working together. Agree 100%, Bob. Thank you for that. Fantastic. Listen. Thank you, Alf, thank you, Bob, and thank you, Robin. This is all the time that we have for our audience today. This concludes the Ideanomics and VIA Motors shareholders call. We urge you to refer to the Ideanomics SEC filings for any additional information that you need. The PowerPoint and recording of this call will be available soon on the Ideanomics website under the Events section. To be alerted to news, events, and other information in a timely manner, we recommend you follow us on social media and explore our website at www.viamotors.com and www.ideanomics.com. 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