"We entered 2025 with positive momentum. However, the broader macroeconomic environment has changed significantly in recent months. The uncertainty created by U.S. tariffs and trade policy has been disruptive to the global automotive industry, and its global supply chains, thus impacting our production ramp. In turn, this has made our quest to ramp our own production both more challenging and more risky. In light of this new environment, we made the prudent decision to make changes to our previous plans. Notably, the decision to implement a temporary pause to prior production plans while we monitor ongoing manufacturing and supply chain conditions. Commensurately, we have taken actions to significantly reduce operating expenses. In addition, in March 2025 we raised new equity capital to ensure we are well positioned especially given today's challenging market environment and in light of the growing demand for our SDV technology, as the early stages of production ramp are expensive and impose a financial burden. These were not easy decisions, but they reflect our commitment to ensure the Company's long-term viability and success.

"The critical question for REE in recent years has been identifying the right path to bring our technology to the customers who need it most. We are seeing that answer through a path of deploying our technology through less capital-intensive approaches, including licensing and partnership models. We are actively advancing several commercial opportunities along these lines, and we remain optimistic in our ability to serve customers and pursue growth in this way, even in the face of broader industry and trade headwinds. To be clear, production remains a part of our long-term strategy; the pause is presently seen as temporary. Heightened uncertainty in the current environment has led us, for now, to de-emphasize a near-term large-scale production ramp. We believe that this pause allows us to preserve cash, giving flexibility to adapt as market conditions evolve."

As part of our ongoing financial review, due to the recent changes in the macroeconomic environment and tariff situation negatively affecting our ability to bring our P7 to the market as planned and affecting our ability to raise debt, which directly impact our revenue forecast, management has determined that there is a substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months. Our plans to alleviate this going concern includes temporarily pausing production and significantly reducing costs, adjusting headcount with a view to optimize the corporate structure to become more flexible in the face of industry uncertainty. We will announce details of this in the near future, but for now, investors should expect significant reduction in operational expenses alongside the production pause.