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Surf Air Mobility Announces the Successful Completion of Southern Airways Acquisition

Los Angeles, California – August, 2023 – Surf Air Mobility Inc. (SAM), a regional platform aiming to sustainably connect the world’s communities, announced that the it has completed the acquisition of Southern Airways (“Southern”) immediately prior to its listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SRFM on July 27, 2023. The combination of Surf Air Mobility and Southern will provide the basis for SAM’s anticipated expanded, nationwide regional air mobility platform. Following the close of the transaction on July 27, 2023, Surf Air Mobility has 69,742,981 basic shares and 71,603,186 fully diluted shares outstanding.

Surf Air Mobility intends to accelerate the adoption of green flying by developing, together with its commercial partners, hybrid-electric and fully-electric powertrain technology to upgrade existing fleets. By creating a financing and services infrastructure to enable this transition at an industry-wide level, Surf Air Mobility believes it can bring electrified aircraft to market at scale and substantially reduce the cost and environmental impact of regional flying. Surf Air Mobility believes such cost and environmental impact reductions are achievable by the end of the decade, and that operating as a publicly-traded company and having efficient access to growth capital will enable and accelerate the implementation of its strategic plan.

Surf Air Mobility also announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2023 and provide outlook for the full year 2023 the week of August 14, 2023.

Nissan Launches Electric Pickup Truck Through JV in China

While we are impatiently waiting for Tesla, Rivian, and others to bring their electric pickup trucks to market here in North America, China is already getting some.

Nissan is launching a new electric pickup truck through a Dongfeng joint venture in China: the Dongfeng Rich 6 EV.

With its aggressive zero-emission mandate, China has forced automakers to accelerate their deployment of all-electric vehicles in the country.

Several of them are now making EVs just for the Chinese market.

Click the link for the full story! https://electrek.co/2019/07/16/nissan-electric-pickup-truck-dongfeng-rich-6-ev/