EV SPAC

KCAC / KCACWS

 * Auto-related SPAC Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE:KCACU) is set to begin trading Friday after raising $200M through an IPO just months after Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. I bought electric-vehicle battery maker QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) at a $3.3B valuation.
 * KCACU sold 20M investing units at $10 apiece. Each unit consists of one Class A share and 0.25 warrants entitling investors to buy a second share at $11.50 in the future.
 * Management also granted underwriters the option of buying as many as 3M more units for overallotments, potentially raising an additional $3M.
 * The units will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares and warrants will also eventually trade separately under the symbols "KCAC" and "KCACWS," respectively.
 * KCACU management said in a statement that it intends to focus M&A efforts on companies in the North American automotive or auto-related sectors.

GGPI / Polestar
Swedish automaker Polestar announced a partnership with Gores Guggenheim(NASDAQ:GGPI)

EV News
March 8, 2021:

A group of 17 U.S. House Democrats are introducing legislation as early as today that would award $6B to the U.S. Postal Service to buy tens of thousands of additional electric delivery vehicles.

The bill would also require no less than 50% of medium and heavy-duty vehicle purchases be electric or zero-emission through 2029 and all new USPS vehicles be zero-emission after January 2040.

The development is seen as positive for Workhorse Group (WKHS) and Oshkosh (OSK).

Feb 23, 2021:

(February 23, 2021) — The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced today that it has awarded Oshkosh Defense, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK), an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to produce the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV), the USPS’s first large-scale fleet procurement in three decades. The competitively awarded contract allows for the delivery of between 50,000 and 165,000 vehicles over a period of 10 years.

May 18, 2021
美国总统拜登将于当地时间5月18日参观位于美国密歇根州东南部城市迪尔伯恩的福特Rouge电动汽车中心，体验即将发布的福特F-150电动版. 外界预计拜登将借此机会宣布其1740亿美元电动车扶持计划.

路透报道称，拜登将宣布为美国建立新的高容量电池设施提供拨款. 同时为关闭工厂进行设备改造提供资金，以“制造先进汽车和零部件”.

美国运输部此前文件显示，拜登1740亿美元电动车扶持计划主要包括1000亿美元的消费者电动车退税、150亿美元电动车基建、200亿美元电动车校车拨款、250亿美元电动车公交拨款以及140亿美元其他电动车税收优惠. .

报道称，拜登将宣布为电动车销售提供激励措施，对零排放的中型和重型汽车实行新的税收抵免，但排除对豪华型电动车的激励措施.

在电动车基建项目方面，拜登则希望投资150亿美元，以在2030年前建立50万个电动车充电桩（是美国加油站数量的4倍）. 其同时希望为联邦机构用车向电动车转型提供拨款，将65万辆美国政府用车、47.5万辆校车替换成新能源车型.