However, this Canoo is an emerging battery electric vehicle OEM company. It is developing breakthrough purpose-built electric vehicles with a proprietary and highly versatile platform architecture.
ArcelorMittal first heard from Canoo a few years ago. “Canoo was incorporated in late 2017 and immediately reached out to ArcelorMittal for technical assistance. We had really positive relationships with their key founders, who we worked with at a previous EV company,” says Scott Stone, who is the Global Technology Coordinator at ArcelorMittal Global R & D who has responsibility for the emerging BEV OEMs.
Stone says, “Within the North America automotive department we’ve built a special team to support and manage the emerging OEMs. This team has addressed both technical and commercial needs which have proven to be quite different.”