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An innovative manufacturer of highly efficient fuel cell systems with over 30 years of experience

cellcentric is a 50:50 joint venture of Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group AB formed on March, 1st 2021 and takes advantage of the expertise and extensive experience from several decades of development work on fuel cells within its predecessor companies. cellcentric’s ambition is to become a leading global manufacturer of fuel cells, and thus help the world take a major step towards climate-neutral and sustainable transportation by 2050.

Therefore, cellcentric’s primary focus is to develop, produce, and commercialize fuel cell systems for use in heavy-duty trucks, as well as other applications with a comparable set of requirements to be supplied to the shareholders Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group as well as to other customers.

Today, several hundred highly specialized colleagues work on the success of fuel cell systems in inter-disciplinary teams at locations in Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, and Esslingen as well as Burnaby (Canada). Roughly 700 individual intellectual property rights were filed, underlining the leading role played by the company in terms of technological development.

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Niklas Ekström

CFO

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Nicholas Loughlan

CTO (Management Board Spokesperson)

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Daimler Truck AG

Daimler Truck Holding AG ("Daimler Truck") is one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, with over 40 main locations and more than 100,000 employees around the globe. The founders of Daimler Truck have invented the modern transportation industry with their trucks and buses a good 125 years ago. Unchanged to this day, the company's aspirations are dedicated to one purpose: Daimler Truck works for all who keep the world moving. Its customers enable people to be mobile and get goods to their destinations reliably, on time, and safely. Daimler Truck provides the technologies, products, and services for them to do so. This also applies to the transformation to CO2-neutral driving.

The company is striving to make sustainable transport a success, with profound technological knowledge and a clear view of its customers' needs.

 Daimler Truck's business activities are structured in five reporting segments: Trucks North America (TN) with the truck brands Freightliner and Western Star and the school bus brand Thomas Built Buses. Trucks Asia (TA) with the FUSO and RIZON commercial vehicle brands. Mercedes-Benz Trucks (MBT) with the truck brand of the same name and BharatBenz. Daimler Buses (DB) with the Mercedes-Benz and Setra bus brands. Daimler Truck's new Financial Services business (DTFS) constitutes the fifth segment, the product range in the truck segments includes light, medium and heavy trucks for long-distance, distribution and construction traffic and special-purpose vehicles used mainly in the municipal and vocational sector. The product range of the bus segment includes city buses, school buses and intercity buses, coaches and bus chassis. In addition to the sale of new and used commercial vehicles, the company also offers aftersales services and connectivity solutions.

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Volvo Group

Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Every day, our customers use our products and services to transport, deliver, build, and ferry goods, objects, and people around the world. Our products and services help put food on our tables, carry people to work or school, build roads, keep our cities clean, and much more - effectively helping to meet the growing demands of our world.

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, as well as financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

The Volvo Group is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of 14 distinct brands in its portfolio, has production facilities in 17 countries, employs approximately 102,000 people, and serves customers in nearly 180 markets. In 2024, net sales amounted to about SEK 527 billion (EUR 46 billion). Volvo Group’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

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