Penske Truck Leasing begins to offer Powered by REE® Electric Vehicles to its customers U-Haul received Powered by REE electric platform and is evaluating it as the first solution to support the electrification of its fleet Airbus and REE collaborate on an autonomous program utilizing REE's P7-C full by-wire and autonomous-ready technology, which opens REE to new autonomous driving markets Demo program underway, with a growing number of trucks already delivered and an increasing number of fleets that continue to provide excellent reviews through REE's network of 20 dealers, 66 sales and service locations, reaching a potential 200 fleet customers across North America In discussions with several automotive manufacturers to incorporate REEcorner® by-wire technology into their electric offerings P7-C is the first full by-wire truck to achieve U.S. FMVSS certification; now eligible for customer incentives of over $100,000 per truck Cash and equivalents of $77.5 million as of March 31, 2024; $15 million (gross) proceeds raised in a public offering at $6.50 per share led by M&G, a strategic automotive investor and REE's largest shareholder First quarter GAAP net loss narrowed by 29% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) with Non-GAAP net loss narrowing by 33% QoQ mainly due to the completion of the engineering phase and operational efficiencies Company will hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, May 30, 2024 which can be accessed via webcast at investors.ree.auto or webcast registration LINK; and via conference call dial-in LINK. TEL AVIV, Israel, May 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  REE Automotive Ltd. (NASDAQ:REE) ("REE" or the "Company"), an automotive technology company and provider of full by-wire electric trucks and platforms, today announced its financial results and operational highlights for the three months ended March 31, 2024. "We started 2024 with strong momentum and catalytic milestones, from achieving U.S. certification to starting to deliver trucks against our order book as part of our demo program with our dealers across North America. These demos are used by dealers to generate orders from their fleet customers, potentially further growing our order book value, which recently crossed $50 million. As our dealer network is now sufficiently built to properly cover North America, we are pivoting to focus on adding fleet orders to our order book and to serve some of the largest fleet companies in the world, including Penske Truck Leasing ("Penske") and U-Haul International, Inc. ("U-Haul"). We are excited to partner with Penske and have them offer our electric trucks to their customers and we are proud to be the first electrification partner for U-Haul which we believe both demonstrates our leadership in the industry and the value our technology delivers," stated Daniel Barel, REE's co-founder and CEO. "We believe that our REEcorner® technology uniquely positions us in a lucrative portion of the commercial electric vehicles ("EV") value chain. The U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards ("FMVSS"), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and California Air Resources Board ("CARB") certifications attained solidified our technological leadership. We see growth in market penetration through our dealers' network across North America, as well as increasing demand from other automotive manufacturers to adopt our REEcorner® technology. We continue to see interest in our mature full by-wire technology for autonomous solutions as we have shown through our collaboration with Airbus UpNext ("Airbus") in its autonomous program. We believe that this, coupled with our capital expenditure ("CapEx")-light manufacturing and operations strategy, enables us to rapidly reach our commercial market and financial goals. We believe our initial customer deliveries, and the feedback we receive on our products, show strong potential, and we expect it will generate significant growth in our order book supporting our production strategy," Barel concluded. Q1 2024 and Recent Highlights: Business: Penske begins to offer Powered by REE® EVs to its customers. Subsequent to quarter end, REE delivered to Penske a P7-C upfitted with a 16-foot Wabash DuraPlate® body for demos and orders across North America. Penske is a leading global transportation services provider managing a fleet of approximately 450,000 vehicles with more than 2,650 rental locations across North America. The Penske truck debuted at the 2024 ACT Expo generating interest from large fleets. U-Haul received and is evaluating a Powered by REE® class 5 electric platform as the first solution to support the electrification of its fleet. U-Haul is a subsidiary of the U-Haul Holding Company (NYSE:UHAL) founded in 1945, U-Haul operates more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces with a fleet of 192,200 trucks, 138,500 trailers and 44,500 towing devices. Airbus selected the Powered by REE® vehicle for a fully autonomous program based on REE's full by-wire capabilities. REE believes that this solidifies the maturity of its full by-wire technology and potentially opens REE to the autonomous driving market. Deliveries have commenced to REE's distribution network of 20 dealers with 66 points of sales and service and access to a potential of over 200 fleets across the U.S and Canada. Demos of REE's P7-C have begun to be delivered to fleets for orders, potentially adding further momentum to the current $50 million order book value. Launched demo program to expand fleets' exposure to REE's commercial EV. Subsequent to quarter-end more than 120 demo rides were performed with multiple prospects, with the aim to generate follow-on orders based on continued positive feedback received from fleets. The demos give fleets the opportunity to experience the first FMVSS certified full by-wire commercial vehicle, secure the inventory they need to transition their fleets to electric and aim to showcase the P7-C's driver-centric cabin, modular design and tight maneuverability firsthand. Two new complete P7-C solutions were showcased at the National Truck and Equipment Association's Work Truck Week in Indianapolis, Indiana. Addressing Pritchard's demand, a full P7-C truck was upfitted with a KUV body from Knapheide, North America's most popular manufacturer of work truck bodies and truck beds. Subsequent to quarter-end, at the ACT Expo, REE presented the P7-C truck upfitted with a 16-foot Wabash DuraPlate® body, built per Penske's requirements. Technology: P7-C is the first full by-wire truck to achieve U.S. FMVSS and EPA certifications. P7-C vehicles are now eligible for a U.S. federal tax credit of up to $40,000 per vehicle and are expected to be eligible for over $100,000 of incentives per vehicle with additional state incentives. Operations: REE is progressing with its CapEx light manufacturing strategy to achieve bill of materials break-even in the low hundreds of vehicles. The two-step manufacturing approach involves U.S. assembly of full vehicles and continued production of REEcorners® at the Company's automated Coventry, UK facility, which has an annual capacity of 10,000 vehicle sets. The tooling investment for the REEcorner® in the UK has been deployed, resulting in a highly efficient, automated production line consisting of 13 robotic stations, run by only seven human operators. REEcorners® are built upon customer order, not inventory, thus optimizing working capital. Financing options are being evaluated to fund scale production of full vehicles by the end of 2024 and subsequent scaling in 2025 and beyond. Once funding is secured, REE plans to ramp up production in the U.S. against its order book, in parallel to the completion of the production tooling program. Once the U.S. production tooling comes online, REE plans to scale production responsibly according to available working capital and demand, with a goal of de-risking execution. Financials: First quarter GAAP net loss narrowed by 29% QoQ to $25.2 million compared to $35.2 million in Q4 2023 and narrowed by 12% year-over-year (YoY) compared to $28.6 million in Q1 2023. The YoY decrease was mainly driven by operational efficiencies implemented, which reduced payroll and related costs and other operational expenses, as well as lower share-based compensation expenses. These decreases were partially offset by losses from remeasurement of warrants and financial expenses related to convertible notes as well as an increase in income tax expenses. The decrease compared to the previous quarter was mainly attributed to the increased non-recurring engineering development costs in Q4 2023. Non-GAAP net loss in the quarter narrowed by 33% QoQ to $21.7 million compared to $32.2 million in Q4 2023 and narrowed by 10% from $24.0 million in Q1 2023. REE ended Q1 2024 with liquidity of $77.5 million comprised of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, inclusive of a $15 million credit facility. Free cash flow (FCF) burn continued to narrow in Q1 2024, with a 6% reduction from Q4 2023, consistent with the trend in full year 2023 when REE reported a 25% YoY decrease in FCF burn. During the first quarter, the Company raised approximately $15 million (gross) in proceeds through a public offering of ordinary shares priced at $6.50 per share. The equity raise was led by M&G Investment Management Limited, one of Europe's largest investment firms, a strategic automotive investor, and REE's largest shareholder. In addition, from January 2024 through May 30, 2024, the Company issued 54,938 Class A Ordinary Shares under the At the Market Offering Agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC for total gross proceeds of approximately $0.3 million. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below under the heading "Non-GAAP Financial Measures." Non-GAAP Financial Measures We have provided in this release financial information that has not been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. We use these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing our financial results and believe they are useful to investors, as a supplement to GAAP measures, in evaluating our ongoing operational performance. We believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing our financial results with peer companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures provided in the financial statement tables below. We believe that adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net loss, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share, reflect additional means of evaluating REE's ongoing operating results and trends. We believe that these non-GAAP measures provide useful information about our operating results, enhance the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making. We believe that Free Cash Flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash used in our operational activities and capital expenditures. Free Cash flow burn represents the negative cash outflow used in our activities as explained above. REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD.Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive LossU.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data)(Unaudited)   Three Months Ended   March 31,2024   December 31,2023   March 31,2023 Revenues $ 160     $ 455     $ —   Cost of revenues   804       913       —   Gross loss $ (644 )   $ (458 )   $ —   Operating expenses:           Research and development expenses, net   15,358       28,587       18,874   Selling, general and administrative expenses   7,170       8,125       10,843   Total operating expenses   22,528       36,712       29,717   Operating loss $ (23,172 )   $ (37,170 )   $ (29,717 ) Income (loss) from warrants remeasurement   (706 )     396       —   Financial income, net   131       341       1,061   Net loss before income tax   (23,747 )     (36,433 )     (28,656 ) Income tax expense (income)   1,436       (1,200 )     (34 ) Net loss $ (25,183 )   $ (35,233 )   $ (28,622 ) Net comprehensive loss $ (25,183 )   $ (35,233 )   $ (28,622 ) Basic and diluted net loss per Class A ordinary share(1) $ (2.28 )   $ (3.44 )   $ (2.87 ) Weighted average number of ordinary shares used in computing basic and diluted net loss per share(1)   11,023,880       10,236,827       9,961,218   (1) On October 18, 2023, the Company effected a reverse share split of the Company's Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares at the ratio of 1-for-30. As a result, all Ordinary Class A shares, Ordinary Class B shares, options for Ordinary Class A Shares, exercise price and net loss per share amounts were adjusted retroactively for all periods presented above as if the stock reverse split had been in effect as of the date of these periods. For further details, see the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 27, 2024. REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD.Condensed Consolidated Balance SheetsU.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data)   March 31,2024   December 31,2023   (Unaudited)   (Audited) ASSETS       CURRENT ASSETS:       Cash and cash equivalents