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Filed by Wallbox B.V. |
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933 and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
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Subject Company: Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. II Commission File No. 001-40114 Date: September 9, 2021 |
Cowen’s 14th Annual Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference
Fireside Chat hosted by Gabe Daoud, Jr., Charging, Battery and Energy Analyst
Gabe Daoud Jr., Cowen:
We’re delighted to host Wallbox CEO, Enric Asuncion, CFO, Wallbox, and CFO, Jordi Lainz for a fireside chat. Wallbox is a Barcelona-based EV charging hardware provider that recently announced its intention to come public via SPAC. Gentlemen, thanks for joining us.
Enric Asuncion, CEO, Wallbox:
Thank you for inviting us.
Gabe Daoud Jr., Cowen:
Maybe let’s take a few minutes here to introduce Wallbox for those on the line who perhaps aren’t familiar with the company. I think it’d be a helpful start.
Enric Asuncion, CEO, Wallbox:
Perfect. So, well, thank you, Gabe. We are Wallbox and we design develop and manufacture intelligent charging solutions for electric cars. But we also have a technology that provides energy management tools for the home. So we cover home charging, semi-public charging, and public charging. So we cover the whole spectrum of charging and we have products that let you charge when energy’s cheaper so you save money products that make you charge as fast as possible, or products like Quasar, which lets you charge your car, but also discharges your car and use your car as a battery for the home or battery for the grid. We’re a global company with presence in 80 countries. We manufacture in-house and we have the best risk margin in the space and one of the fastest growing companies in the space.
Gabe Daoud Jr., Cowen:
Perfect. Great. That’s a great overview. You mentioned Wallbox is a manufacturer, not an owner and operator of the port, so you would fit into maybe the OEM bucket of the space. But can you maybe talk a little bit about the manufacturing process for the hardware and cost exposure and maybe just margin differentiation across AC and the DC product?
Enric Asuncion, CEO, Wallbox:
We provide the hardware and the software. So, we are hardware manufacturers and software developers. For the hardware, I should say, home charging, semi-public charging and public charging. For the hardware, public charging. Right now, on average, it’s 42% of gross margin. When we launch a new product, usually the first six months, we’re around 35% until we improve, ramp up the economies of scale. But our gross margin grows to 55% for the really mature products where we have been able to optimize the costs and the production. The fact that we control the supply chain, the manufacturing, the certification, the product development, that we go from the whole supply chain, these allow us not only to have this growth margin which are actually double than our peers today. So today we already have this 42% gross margin. Also, it’s helping us now too, with the allocations. With this problems with chips and it’s difficult to get some semi-conductors. We have been able with all these crisis to still, and we expect to keep doing that, deliver all of our products in fewer hours without any interruption to our customer. So controlling everything in house is allowing us to have the best risk margin, but also to keep delivering.