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Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Microvast First Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the conference over to Sarah Alexander, Microvast's General Counsel. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator and thanks to the audience, for joining us today. Mr. Yang Wu, Chief Executive Officer will begin today's call with some opening remarks; Craig Webster, who was recently appointed as our Chief Financial Officer and Sascha Kelterborn, who was recently promoted to the position of President will host today's call. Leon

Thank you, Sarah. First, I would like to take a few minutes to address the leadership changes that we announced last month. Leon has been the CFO of Microvast for the last 12 years and he has been an integral part of building this company. We would not be where we are today without his leadership, guidance and a steady hand. I want to personally thank him for his years of loyal service and for his continued service as an advisor and as a Director. Craig has been involved with Microvast for over 10 years. And he knows our business and industry very well. I'm confident that he has a skill set required to take Microvast to the next level. And I look forward to working with him in his new role as the CFO. Sascha joined Microvast in 2016 and has been an integral part of our growth strategy in the Western Hemisphere. He will assume responsibility for the company day-to-day operations in a new role as President. I will continue to serve as the company's Chief Executive Officer. This new leadership structure will enable me to focus on Microvast strategic direction. I'm confident that this team will best position Microvast to execute on the opportunities in front of us. Sascha will touch on our business results and Craig will review the financial performance in more detail in a few moments. However, I would now like to turn the call over to Leon. Thank you all.

Thank you, Mr. Wu. First, it has been an honor to serve Microvast as a Chief Financial Officer. I'm very proud of the buildings we have built. And I'm excited about the company's future. When I joined Microsoft in 2010, the company had very few employees, and no revenue, only this would - electrification which over the last 12 years, we build a strong team and work together to execute that region. I'm blessed to have been a part of this journey. And I'm even more excited about the opportunities that, remains in front of Microvast. Craig has been involved in the Microvast as a member of our Board of Director since 2012. He and I have developed a great working relationship over the last decade. He knows our business and the industry very well. And I'm confident he's the right person to step into the role of Chief Financial Officer and to help the Microvast into his next good phase. I look forward to working closely with him to ensure a smooth transition. I am with as most confidence in Microvast future, I look forward to continuing to serve this company as a Director, working together with Craig, remind you as a wider role. And I will continue to support Microvast as a shareholder for many years to come. Thank you to our shareholder for your covenant support and the patience. And thank you to the Microvast team around the globe. It has been a true pleasure to work with each and every part of you. With that, I will turn the call over to Sascha President of Microvast.

Thank you, Leon. On a personal note, I have very much enjoyed working with you for the last few years and I'm pleased that you have chosen to continue forward with Microvast as a Director, and in an advisory capacity. Your historic knowledge of this business is vast. I'm excited to step into the role of President with renewed focus on executing our international growth strategy. I enjoy new challenges and I'm ready to move the company to the next level. Everyone, please turn to Slide Number 4 of the PowerPoint presentation we have just published. As I cover a few highlights from the first quarter. We posted 145.5% revenue growth during the third quarter delivered USD36.7 million in Q1, 2022. Our first quarter performance exceeded expectations is our team real together to get as much product solutions out of the door before the COVID lockdown situation in China worsened. This is a robust revenue growth despite many macro headwinds. A big part of our growth in the first quarter was Asian Pacific. We have seen our market share in India increasing with our partners, and this was one of the biggest contributors to ex China growth in the first quarter. As an example, we received a USD10.1 million order for various e-bus solutions from Ashok Leyland. In addition, orders from our multiyear European projects were strong across the new battery solutions that we have recently announced. We ended the first quarter with a strong backlog of USD120.8 million as a result of a healthy order intake of USD62 million. We're very excited about the prospect of further increasing to our backlog in the coming quarters. Our forecasted contract revenue remains at a healthy USD2.5 billion. Except backlog, our forecasted contract revenue is comprised entirely of customers located outside of China. We continue to make progress behind the scenes to advance our relationships with leading OEMs globally, and we'll continue our efforts to grow our forecasted contract revenue. When we refer to forecasted contract revenue, we are describing backlog plus management estimates. For revenue we expect to realize from existing contractual relationships with customers. Most of these contracts include estimate volume requirements. However, they do not typically include a volume commitment we expect to realize current forecasted contract revenues between 2022 and 2031. The first quarter did come with some challenges, the most prominent one being rapidly increasing raw material prices driven by supply chain disruptions as well as the worldwide inflation. We're actively monitoring these trends and doing what we can to mitigate this risk, including entering into long-term supply contract, identifying new and or additional sources of supply, and increasing our selling prices wherever possible. However, this is a trend that we anticipate continuing well into 2022. In addition, I would also note that the semiconductor supply chain has not yet normalized and there were further supply chain disruptions in the auto industry caused by the conflict in Eastern Europe. These challenges do not necessarily impact our business directly. However, they do impact the timing of the OEM, demanding for our battery solutions, as many customers are unable to complete production of existing vehicles we're finalizing the various vehicle testings in the development phase due to chip shortages or other supply chain issues, which in turn delays demand for our products. I will touch on our capacity expansion projects more in a moment, but they are well underway. In addition, as was discussed during our last earnings call, we launched two new battery cells and then new battery pack during the first quarter, which will be a key driver of revenue growth going forward internationally. Please turn to Slide Number 5, which highlight some of our key partnerships in the commercial vehicle market like Iveco group eVersum and others. We are moving forward with our announced collaborations and preparing right now our global battery production lines for various vehicle SOPs within the next 12 months. Next, please turn to Slide Number 6, which outlines some of our incoming order activity in Q1. In addition to the USD10.1 million order from Ashok Leyland mentioned earlier, we also have a stable business growth with our existing customer base and partners like as an example Oshkosh Wrightbus, CNHTC or King Long in serial and new development projects with USD51.9 million order value. Slide 7 is an overview of the new power and energy battery cells and a battery pack we announced during Q1. These products enable our customers to optimize vehicle design in terms of energy density, and cycle life, delivering overall improved performance and reducing the total cost of ownership by preserving fast charging capabilities. Both cell solutions are rated over 5000 cycles at 25 degrees. We expect these new generation products to be critical drivers of our future revenue growth. Moving on to Slide number 8, we have presented an overview of our engagement with TÜV SÜD that was announced last week. TÜV SÜD is a leader in the certification world and we are pleased to partner with them on one of the first sustainable assessments in the battery industry world. TÜV SÜD has completed an analyzed of our operation, which we'll use as a baseline to measure our progress towards sustainability goals going forward. This is very important. The next phase of the project will include a deep dive into identifying areas where we can improve sustainability in our manufacturing processes and in our global supply chain. I will now turn the call over to Craig to review our financial performance.

Thank you, Sascha. Before I take you through our Q1 financial performance, I would just like to personally thank Leon for all this years of hard work and devotion to Microvast. I am fortunate to inherit from him a great finance team that has global reach and capabilities. Additionally, Leon leaves me with a very strong balance sheet and an orderly and clean capital structure. As you know, we have exciting plans for our capital deployment over the next couple of years and beyond. And I'm excited by the opportunities that lay ahead for the company. Now, let me turn to our financials and I'll spend the next few minutes discussing our Q1, 2022 financial results. Please turn to Slide 10. And I will summarize the main line items from our Q1 P&L. First off revenue, I am pleased to report strong revenue growth in the first quarter, which grew 145.5% to $36.7 million from $14.9 million in Q1, 2021. As Sascha mentioned, this performance exceeded our expectations. And I will take you through the geographic breakdown in a later slide. We posted gross profit of $13,000 in Q1, 2022 compared to gross loss of $1.2 million in the prior period. After adjusting for non-cash settled share-based compensation expense, adjusted gross profit was $1.9 million in Q1, 2022 compared to adjusted gross loss of $1.2 million in Q1, 2021. This translates into an adjusted gross margin of 5.2% in Q1, 2022 compared to negative 8.3% in Q1 2021 a 13.5 percentage point improvement. Operating expenses were $43.4 million in Q1, 2022 compared to $11.5 million in the prior year period. The largest contributor to the increased operating expenses was share-based compensation expense, which totaled $26.2 million in the quarter. of this SBC expense $14.3 million is non-cash, and the balance is currently expected to be settled in cash this year. Operating expenses also increases the company added headcounts support the planned growth initiatives and also incurred additional expenses related to operating as a public company compared to the prior year period. Net loss was $43.8 million in Q1, 2022 compared to net loss of $16.3 million in Q1, 2021. After adjusting for non-cash settled share-based compensation expense, and changes in fair value of our warrant liability, and convertible notes, adjusted net loss was $29.1 million in Q1, 2022 compared to $12.7 million in Q1, 2021. Adjusted EBITDA was negative $23.1 million in Q1, 2022 compared to negative $6 million in Q1, 2021. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP metrics to the most comparable GAAP metrics are included in the table at the end of our earnings press release. Slide 11 further illustrates the impact of these adjustments. As I just mentioned, we have substantial SBC expenses in Q1 of $26.2 million that is primarily related to stock option and kept RSU awards under a plan that pre-existed our [indiscernible] merger. Because of the modification made to these awards, we are required under GAAP to expense it to our P&L over a three year period starting from July 23, 2021. We have adopted a prudent approach of only adjusting for the non-cash settled portion of this SBC expense. Slide 12 shows a geographic breakdown of our revenue in Q1 this year compared to last year. As you can see on a percentage basis, the biggest growth was in Asia Pacific, ex China, at a growth of 628% year-over-year. As Sascha mentioned, this was primarily driven by deliveries to leading OEM customers in India. It is worth noting that our China Business still posted an 86% year-over-year growth. And we expect that while this will remain a growing market for us, we currently expect the contributions from customers in Asia Pacific, Europe and the U.S. to grow at a faster rate. I will now take you through our funding position and the cash movement in Q1, 2022 which is on Slide 13. We started the quarter with $536 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash. Net cash used in operating activities during the quarter was $24.9 million, which was primarily due to increased notes receivable and inventory due to our higher sales, as well as the management decision to pay for certain raw materials earlier than usual in order to secure lower prices from our suppliers. Our CapEx spend on Huzhou 3.1 million and Clarkesville 1.1 million was $38 million during the quarter. And we also invested a further $2 million into our existing facilities and R&D. This gives us approximately $470.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of Q1. Management estimates for our total capital expenditures in 2022 remain in the region of $300 million to $350 million, with most of this being allocated to our capacity expansion projects, which will bring online an additional four gigawatt hours of capacity per annum. These expansions, which are our growth drivers for the coming years, are fully funded from our current balance sheet capacity. We will also be opportunistic to bring in bank financing. We have a growing fixed asset base is unencumbered and our current debt levels are very low. As regards the asset base, our capacity expansions are underpinned by our large and growing forecasts or contracted revenues, which will bring incremental cash flows in the future. To round off, we closed the quarter in a very strong cash position, and with flexibility across our balance sheet and capital structure to raise more capital that will be done at a time that best suits us and as it's needed to support future growth beyond our current four gigawatt hour expansion. With that, I will turn it back over to Sascha to review the outlook.

Thanks, Craig. Lastly, please turn to Slide 15. First an update on the construction progress related to our ongoing manufacturing capacity expansions. Our manufacturing facility in Huzhou is located in a nearby neighboring province to Shanghai and thus far has not been directly impacted by the COVID lockdowns in China. I'm pleased to report that the ongoing construction related to this project remains on schedule, and is on track to continue production by the first quarter of 2023. We expect production to begin ramped up in Q4, 2022. We posted an updated time lapse to our social media accounts last week, which shows that the facility has reached 90% completion on the exterior side. This is an impressive feat against the backdrop of a difficult environment in China during the last few months. In addition, our ability to produce battery solutions was not immediately impacted from the lockdown and we have been able to continue production from our existing raw material inventory in Huzhou. However, logistics have created many challenges in getting products out of the door in Q2 both on the ground as well as by sea. In addition, as - April progress into May, it has also become increasingly challenging in a timely replenishment, production and raw materials due to supply chain disruptions impacting our vendor as well as our T network. We expect the challenges will be temporary in nature and as of right now we believe we can make up the softest experience during the first half of Q2 once logistics normalize. We have finished goods in our warehouse that are ready to be shipped as soon as transportation can be arranged. We will continue to monitor the situation closely. We expect Clarksville to begin zero production in Q3, 2023. Clarksville is well on its way to meeting us USMCA requirements, which will give us a competitive advantage in North America. This global expansion will add additionally four gigawatt hour of production capacity per year, and will be mostly dedicated to our recent announced larger from our battery cells. Moving forward a key part of our strategy is to continue to focus on our manufacturing capacity expansion efforts outside of China. A critical component of this strategy is diversification our supply chain if we do certify our geographic presence and customer base. Once completed, these efforts will help insulate Microvast from regional disruptions in the future. Moving to the 2022 outlook, please turn to Slide number 16. We experienced some challenges early in 2022. However, we are maintaining our guidance of 35% to 45% revenue growth compared to 2021. We continue to be very optimistic about our opportunities to grow forecasted contract revenue this year, and are looking forward to the full deployment of our newly launched product to further drive international sales growth. At the same time, we will further explore the market for energy storage solutions. This market was valued in 2020 at $10.37 billion and is projected to globally reach $37 billion in 2027. We will also take advantage with our high performance battery solutions in the upcoming and growing fuel cell market. The market for fuel cell applications is projected to grow to $9.1 billion by 2027 versus $2.9 billion in 2022. Our fuel cell battery cell solutions have been already tested in very harsh desert conditions, beginning of this year. Long-term we live towards the positive future with political leaders across the global coming together to reduce country's carbon footprint and finding our Paris agreement or releasing the new Fit for 55 European legislation package that has given the boost to green and renewable technologies. By the way, we are also exploring opportunities to participate in some of the recently announced governmental funded electrification projects in the United States as well as in Europe. With that positive outlook, I will turn the call back over to Sarah.

Thank you, Sascha. I would now like to ask the operator to open up the line for question-and-answers.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is from Adam Jonas with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Hi, everybody thanks for the call. Thanks for the details. I got your full your CapEx outlook, but could you also provide any magnitude or cadence of OpEx as well particularly what would consume cash any visibility you could provide there would be - very helpful? Thank you.

Sure, Adam Craig here, not a problem, I think it will come as a surprise to you that we'll run some cash outflow this year. I think, you know, our best estimates for that is that cash outflow from operations would be in the region of about $50 million. Q1 was slightly higher than we'd anticipated because we took the decision to buy a lot more raw materials. You saw that from the inventory going up. And now notes receivable that is an indicator for you that it will be like that for the rest of you. That was a tactical management decision to go into the market earlier on raw materials.

Okay, I appreciate that. And, obviously, given the cash projections and the cost of the expansion in Huzhou and Clarksville with your cash position I imagine you'd be getting down to what you would define as minimum cash levels within a couple of quarters. I didn't know if you wanted to - obviously you're exploring lots of different options? And there's all sorts of exciting opportunities to get low cost financing from grants and the DOE and others, but for another time, perhaps. But can you remind us, what - you would say would be your comfortable range of minimum cash to run the business before - you bring in some new outside funds?

Yes, I think - it's very similar to what Leon mentioned. Last time that, we're looking to always have minimum cash around $150 million, $200 million just so you know, what we're doing with the balance sheet Adam is this right. So, we've got cash, and then we're converting that cash into productive assets, fixed assets, right. Once we do that our fixed asset basis goes up. It's unlevered and our fixed assets are backed by cash flows, because we've already got the technology. But as we do that, we've then got the flexibility to add debt financing. And that's a lot easier for banks to do because - you've done what you promised to do. You build the building, you put the equipment in there, they see the customers come. And they're not just looking at a LTV on a building. They're looking at like, what's the cash flows associated with it, and that's the nice position that we're in.

Makes a lot of sense, I look forward to meeting you and thanks for the details.

Yes I look forward. You come to Houston anytime. We'll see you in New York next time as well.

You got it. Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks Adam.

As there are no further questions, I'll turn the conference back over to Sascha Kelterborn for any closing remarks.

Thank you all for joining today, and we wish you a great and a pleasant evening. Thanks a lot.