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Iveco Group and Nikola

will realize joint venture in Europe

Iveco Group “will concentrate on Europe for the further development and commercialisation of its own battery electric and
fuel cell electric trucks, which includes rolling out its financing business model GATE, and Nikola will focus its operations
in North America”.

As announced a few hours ago, Iveco Group is about to assume full ownership of the joint venture with Nikola in Europe.
The original agreement was established back in 2019 and brought to the development of the first Nikola BEV and FCEV
trucks based on the IVECO S-Way truck model.
Now, Iveco Group “will concentrate on Europe for the further development and commercialisation of its own battery
electric and fuel cell electric trucks, which includes rolling out its financing business model GATE, and Nikola will
focus its operations in North America, with an integrated approach to its customers, offering BEV, FCEV and hydrogen
infrastructure via its HYLA brand”, as stated in the official press release.

Iveco Group and the joint venture with Nikola
Iveco Group will assume full ownership of the joint venture in Ulm, Germany. Also, Iveco Group will be licensed to freely
access and continue developing vehicle control software for the jointly developed BEV and FCEV. Nikola will be granted
the IVECO S-Way technology license for North America and related component supply from Iveco Group, and will gain
joint ownership of the intellectual property of Generation 1 eAxles, technology developed together with Iveco Group’s
powertrain brand, FPT Industrial.

Iveco Group will cover the capital outlay related to this new phase of collaboration through its available liquidity, acquiring
the above-named items partially in cash (USD 35 million) and partially in Nikola shares (20 million of shares). Despite the
negative cash impact generated, Iveco Group forecasts to absorb it with cash flow generation and therefore this does not
change its cash flow target for 2023; it will also retain a meaningful amount of Nikola shares.

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