Struggling electrical automobile startup Canoo has filed for chapter and ceased all operations.
The startup introduced its submitting for Chapter 7 chapter on Jan. 17 within the U.S. Chapter Court docket for Delaware. This can consequence within the federal appointment of a trustee to supervise the liquidation of Canoo’s property and distribution of proceeds to collectors, the startup confirmed in a press launch.
Canoo attributed the choice to declare chapter to unsuccessful efforts to safe extra funding from a Division of Power mortgage program and international buyers. Canoo went public 4 years in the past, elevating an estimated $600 million, however the cash-intensive means of growing and manufacturing new autos left it searching for different funding sources.
Canoo Life-style Car
Canoo has claimed to have substantial numbers of orders from prospects like Walmart, however has solely managed to ship small numbers of demonstration autos, together with to NASA, the Division of Protection, and the U.S. Postal Service. It is primarily targeted on electrical vans constructed atop a skateboard chassis, however it additionally produced two pickup-truck designs, the latter supposed for army use and solely produced in prototype type.
As first reported by TechCrunch, Canoo’s chapter submitting reveals the startup owes roughly $164 million to collectors whereas holding property valued at $126 million.
Canoo in December furloughed 82 staff and idled an meeting facility in Oklahoma, then shortly positioned the remaining staff on what it known as a “obligatory unpaid break.” Earlier within the yr, it bought gear from defunct U.Ok. startup Arrival to be used on the Oklahoma facility.
Canoo American Bulldog
In 2017, the corporate was began as Evelozcity by a number of former Faraday Future executives, though a lot of the contingent that launched it left a while in the past. That is coincided with a change in course beneath present CEO Tony Aquila, who pivoted Canoo from its unique plan of promoting van-like EVs on a subscription foundation towards business autos and authorities contracts.
Whereas the broad-strokes plan to fabricate business autos has remained the identical beneath Aquila’s management, the small print have modified. Canoo revealed manufacturing plans with the Netherlands’ VDL, then canceled them, with a following company transfer to Arkansas after which Texas.
